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

Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1866, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Life Story of Franklin Wilson, As Told by Himself in His Journals

“Civil War times in Maryland.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alexandria VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1897, su:homefront, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:biography

Dalton During the Winter of 1863-64

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Dalton GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1884, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Memoirs of Frederick Augustus Porcher

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Berkeley County SC, loc:Mexico Plantation Sc, loc:Santee Sc, loc:South Carolina, pd:1943, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:political, su:slaveholding, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Story of my Life: or More than a Half-Century as I Have Lived it and Seen it Lived

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Reminscences of Caldwell County, N. C.: in the Great War of 1861-65

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Caldwell County NC, loc:North Carolina, milt:Company A 22nd N.C. Regiment, pd:1913, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Story of a Border City During the Civil War

“1858-1866. A reminiscence of life in St. Louis from Secession to Radical rule by a ‘Professor in the University of Chicago, Resident of St. Louis from 1858 to 1866.’"

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, pd:1908, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory