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

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews of Sumter, South Carolina: Extending over a period of 97 years ... Together with reminiscences of the war of 1812, and the recent "unpleasantness" between the North and South.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

A Southern Home in War Times

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1914, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

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Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Mammy Susan's Story

Tags: au:female, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Recollections of Samuel Gourdin Gaillard

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Orangeburg County SC, loc:Rocks Plantation, loc:South Carolina, loc:St. Johns SC, pd:1956, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Remainiscing in Lively Vein

“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”

Missouri History Not Found in Textbooks: Sale of Slaves at Columbia in 1864

Tags: era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Missouri, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:offical documents

Reminiscences of Peace and War

“A fine account of her wartime years in Virginia, written a number of years later.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1905, su:battlefield, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Life on the Old Plantation

1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Georgia, pd:1923, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern

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