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

A Belgian Consul on Conditions in the South in 1860 and 1862

“January 20, 1861, and November 15, 1862. Text of two reports by the consul at Atlanta, to Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, describing conditions in the South and prospects for extending commerce to the region.”

Tags: loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1937, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, ts:offical documents

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Letter from Dardanelle to Jonesville, South Carolina

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Jonesville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1969, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Boy's Impressions of the Battle of Franklin

"November 1864. Franklin, Tennessee. The battle in Middle Tennessee as seen by a youngster.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

An Arkansas Lady in the Civil War: Reminiscences of Susan Fletcher

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Girl of the Sixties

“1861-1862. Kentucky. From her memory as “a resentful girl of thirteen years,” a recollection of Union occupation early in the war.”

Tags: era:1860s, era:1861-1865, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1893, su:Child Experience, su:child girl, su:homefront

A Love-Sick Volunteer

“Summer of 1861. Place not stated. A story of romance early in the war.”

Tags: era:1861, pd:1893, su:war experience, su:warfront

A War Correspondent's View of St. Augustine and Fernandina: 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Fernandina Fl, loc:Florida, loc:St. Augustine FL, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, ts:correspondence

A Memoir of Robert M.T. Hunter

“Hunter served as Secretary of State, CSA during part of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography

As I Saw It

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

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