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

The Occupation of Jacksonville, February 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, U.S.A.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt: 54th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1954, su:camp life, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Second Day of the War

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The Shelby Raid, 1863

“1863. Missouri. The effects of the daring raid by CSA General Jo Shelby into Missouri described by an eyewitness.”

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Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.

“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…

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