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

Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Occupation of Jacksonville, February 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, U.S.A.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt: 54th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1954, su:camp life, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Second Day of the War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Fort Sumter, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1886, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Surrender and Homeward Bound

“1865. Mobile to New Orleans to Louisville. A former CSA soldier recalls the last weeks of the war and his return home to Kentucky.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Tuscaloosa, loc:Georgia, loc:Tuscaloosa AL, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Sherman's Trail Through South Carolina

“May 1865. South Carolina. The trail of destruction across South Carolina described by an ex-Confederate soldier, immediately after the end of combat.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:South Carolina, loc:Winnsboro SC, pd:1927, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory