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

A Visit to South Carolina in 1860

“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:travel, ts:memory

Random Recollections of an Octogenarian

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Boyhood Impressions of the Lexington Missouri, Area, 1858-1863

“Born in 1845, this young observer moved to Lafayette County from Virginia in 1858 and recalled life in west-central Missouri until his family moved to Illinois in 1863.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Lexington, loc:Lafayette County MO, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1957, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

Louisville During the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1882, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman from North Carolina

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:Battle of New Bern, he:Battle of Roanoke Island, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Roanoke Island NC, pd:1973, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Incidents in Blockade-Running

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1893, su:blockade, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Col A.H. Belo

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, pd:1902, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:biography

Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:enslaved, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative