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

Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler

“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:civilian, su:economics, su:travel, ts:narrative

Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

“By an Iowa lady why served in Union hospitals useful for Southern life described-Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, and most other areas of the CSA "west".

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Iowa, loc:Keokuk Iowa, loc:Mississippi, loc:South Carolina, pd:1895, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Village Life in America, 1852-1872 including the period of the American civil war as told in the diary of a schoolgirl

War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana

“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, pd:1930, su:African American, su:education, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Wartime Scenes From Convent Windows: St. Cecilia, 1860 Through 1865

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1980, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:narrative

We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work: Letters from American Missionary Association Teachers in Florida, 1864-1874

We Left a Black Track in South Carolina: Letters of Corporal Eli S. Ricker, 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Knoxville Il, loc:South Carolina, milt:102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, milt:XX Corps Army of Georgia, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

William Parker Cutler's Congressional Diary Of 1862-63

WILLIAM PARKER CUTLER'S CONGRESSIONAL DIARY OF 1862-63 Allan G. Bogue William Parker Cutler's career in the first United States Congress of the Civil War appears at first glance to have been less than noteworthy. Elected as a Republican to the House…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Ohio, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1987, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary