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

A Louisiana Engineer at the Siege of Vicksburg: Letters of Henry Ginder

“Ginder's "Letters" narrated his experiences as a civilian during the siege at Vicksburg.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

A Yankee Views the Agony of Savannah

“A Union soldier describes occupied Savannah.”

“January 29, 1865. A recent arrival from Boston wrote home about the devastation of Savannah and General Sherman's occupation of the city.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1959, su:civilian, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Yankee in Louisiana: Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Henry R. Gardner, 1862-1866

Tags: 10th U.S. Colored Artillery, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:18th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery, milt:Company G 10th US Colored Artillery, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Autobiography and Sketches of my Travels by Sea and Land

“The author was a seaman and had a varied career spending much time on the coast of Texas. He served with the 12th Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers during the Civil War and the hardships he encountered are described in a no-nonsense way. In later…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:military, su:political, su:travel, ts:autobiography

Army letters of "Personne," 1861-1865. Vol. 1, no. 1-Vol. 1, no. 2.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Cummings Point Charleston Hatbor, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:South Carolina, pd:1896, pd:1897, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Confederate Girl's Diary

"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary