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

To Coosawhatchie in December 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort District SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:Leake's Battery of Turner's Artillery, pd:1952, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Occupation of Richmond, April 1865: The Memorandum of Events of Colonel Christopher Q. Tompkins

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Dover Coal Pits Va, loc:Goochland County Va, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The University of Virginia, October, 1860, to April, 1861

“October 1860-April 1861. Charlottesville, Virginia. A freshman at “The University” during the secession winter describes the events on ‘The Grounds.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:education, su:homefront, su:military, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Trip to Richmond in 1863

“1863. East Tennessee to Richmond. The wife of Confederate officer imprisoned in the North describes her trip to the Confederate capital and her meeting with Jefferson Davis.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Greensville Tn, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Tennessee, loc:Virginia, pd:1908, su:child girl, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory