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

A Georgia Confederate Soldier Visits Montgomery, Alabama, 1862-1863

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia GA, loc:Georgia, milt:20th Georgia Infantry Regiment, pd:1963, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

In the Hands of the Compromisers: Letters of Robert W. Barnwell to James H. Hammond

Tags: era:1850s, era:antebellum, he:Nashville Convention, loc:Nashville TN, loc:South Carolina, su:political, ts:correspondence

Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cherokee County NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1992, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Letter of John Campbell, Unionist

“John Campbell, Searcy County delegate to the secession convention of 1861, explains why he voted for secession. The period of secession and later summarizing the negotiations for peace in 1864 and 1865.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, au:union, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1970, su:non-slaveholding white, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:correspondence

Governor John Gill Shorter Executive Papers

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Blus Spring AL, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Winston County Al, pd:1961, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Evacuation of Richmond, April 3, 1865 and the Disastrous Conflagration Incident Theory

“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. More testimony relating to the evacuation of Richmond by an eyewitness.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Chaffin's Bluff VA, loc:Henrico County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1895, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Peter Dekle's Letters

Letters of John Letcher to J. Hierholzer, 1864-1865

“November 3, 1864-May 16, 1865. Lexington, Virginia. The former governor of Virginia described the effects of the war in the valley and his own opinions of the combat, in three letters to a merchant in Richmond.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence