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

Antebellum: Southern Life As It Was

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, su:daily life, su:southern, ts:narrative

ANTE-BELLUM AND WAR MEMORIES OF MRS. TELFAIR HODGSON

“Wartime memories from a plantation near Savannah.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Chatham County GA, loc:Colerain Plantation, loc:Georgia, loc:Tweedside Plantation, pd:1943, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

ANOTHER LETTER FROM "THE REBEL LAWYER" MONTFORT

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Butler Ga, loc:Fort Pulaski Ga, milt:25th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, pd:1968, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, With Reminiscences Illustrative of the Vicissitudes of its Pioneer Settlers

“Includes chapters on the people involved in all facets of the history of this area including the settlement, wars (Indian, Revolutionary, and Civil), and the years after the war. A detailed diary written by a writer at Staunton gives a vivid account…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:homefront, su:local history, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1902, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them

“1863. Near Chattanooga, Tennessee. A Union veteran tells a poignant tale about a ‘little child toddling toward our lines’ and both armies forgetting the battle for a moment.”

Tags: era:1860s, milt:1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, su:battlefield, su:Child Experience, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory