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

Going Home From the Army

“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During, and After the War of Secession, with Extracts from the Author's Journal and Epitome of the New South.

“Only edition. Cumming is best known for her JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE (1866), valuable and informative work on her nursing duties during the latter part of the Civil War. Written nearly 30 years later, GLEANINGS…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Corinth, loc:Alabama, su:daily life, su:economics, su:female experience, su:local history, su:medical, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Henry M. Stanley in Arkansas and the Dixie Grays

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, milt:6th Arkansas Regiment of Volunteers CSA, pd:1942, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:memory

How I took a Letter on a Yankee General

“No Date. Maryland to “Western Virginia.” A schoolgirl’s teasing of an “enemy” officer.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Harrisburg Pa, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1920, su:child girl, su:military, su:southern, su:union, ts:memory

How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels

“This is a trustworthy account which does not attempt to record minute details, conversations, and exact dates. Mrs. Irby Morgan was married to a brother of General John H. Morgan and was living in Nashville when the war broke out. Morgan left…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1892, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Recollections Grave and Gay

“Burton Harrison was private secretary to Jeff Davis. This work describes social life in CSA, especially in Richmond; also includes opinions on Confederate leaders.”