Browse Items · The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy

Sketches of Livingston County, Part 1

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Livingston County MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1913, su:homefront, su:local history, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

War Recollections, Story of the Evacuation of Petersburg, by an Eye-Witness; A Sad and Solemn Sabbath

“April 1, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A personal account of the education of key city south of Richmond.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1894, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Reminiscences of the Confederacy, J.U. Payne, of New Orleans, LA -- His Devotion to, and Sacrifices for the Cause

“Sketchy recollections of a business associate and acquaintance of Davis.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc: Pass Christian MS, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, loc:New Orleans LA, loc:Rosehart Plantation MS, pd:1907, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory

Memoirs of Dr. Winthrop Hartly Hopson

“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1887, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Robert Toombs

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1886, su:economics, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:narrative

A Missouri Confederate in the Civil War, the Journal of Henry Martyn Cheavens

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Boone County MO, loc:Meridian MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Missouri, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

Civil War Days in Hunstville

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Caddo Fencibles

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Shreveport LA, milt:16th Louisiana Volunteers, milt:Caddo Fencibles, milt:Companyc 16th Louisiana Volunteers, pd:1901, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:memory

Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:enslaved, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Our Faithful Slaves of Old

"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."

Tags: au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Pickens, milt:thirty-seventh Mississippi regiment, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

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