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

My Childhood Recollections of the War

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Rome AL, pd:1956, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Infantry, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Infantry, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“An anonymous diary from wartime New Orleans.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1895, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:diary, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, era:Civil War, loc:Nassau Bahamas, pd:1914, su:blockade, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Blus Spring AL, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Winston County Al, pd:1961, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, pd:1883, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1891, su:daily life, su:economics, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“April 3-10, 1865. Danville, Virginia. A brief description of the last Confederate capital by an unnamed eyewitness.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Danville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory