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

In the Wake of Battle: A Woman's Recollections of Shepherdstown During Antietam Week

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Antietam, loc:Shepherdstown WV, loc:West Virginia, pd:1886, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Inside the Lines at Franklin

“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1895, su:battlefield, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

James M. Torbert's Journal for 1857-1874

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia

“From an old manuscript of a country place in Maryland.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:correspondence

Last Capital of the Confederacy at Danville

“April 3-10, 1865. Danville, Virginia. A brief description of the last Confederate capital by an unnamed eyewitness.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Danville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Leaves From a Diary Kept by a Lady; During the Occupation of Winchester, Va., by the Federal Troops, Under General Milroy

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, pd:1883, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Leaves from an old Washington Diary, 1854-1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Port Tobago Plantation, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1943, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

Letter from a Virginia Lady to the Federal Commander at Winchester, Va.

“1863-1864. Clarke County, Virginia. A contemporary letter describes life in the Shenandoah Valley in the midst of Yankee raids.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, loc:Clarke County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1880, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters From a Journey Through the Federal Blockade, 1861-1862

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Pickens Fl, loc:Key West FL, loc:Pensacola FL, su:blockade, su:civilian, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Fort Mackinac Island MI, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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