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

General and Governor Ross

Tags: era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1903, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, ts:biography

Gen. Sterling Price

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chariton County MO, loc:Missouri, loc:Prince Edward County Va, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:political, su:war experience, ts:biography

Going Home From the Army

“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men

"A summary of events during the Civil War, at Pensacola, Apalachicola Bay, Santa Rosa Island, and Olustee, FL.."

Tags: era:1861, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:eastern shore va, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:St. Augustine FL, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

How to Escape the Yankees: Major Scott's Letter to His Wife at Tallahassee, March 1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Natural Bridge Battlefield, loc:Florida, loc:Leon County Fl, loc:Tallahassee FL, milt:2nd Florida Cavalry, pd:1971, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Historical Incidents: What "Our Women in the War" Did and Suffered

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels

“This is a trustworthy account which does not attempt to record minute details, conversations, and exact dates. Mrs. Irby Morgan was married to a brother of General John H. Morgan and was living in Nashville when the war broke out. Morgan left…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1892, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory