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

The Civil War Diary of John T. Buegal, Union Soldier, Part 1

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, milt:3rd Regiment of MIssouri Volunteer Infantry, pd:1946, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Cotton Letters

“June 7, 1860-September 7, 1862. Powder Springs, Georgia, and Virginia. Correspondence of a Georgia family as the war began.”

The Civil War Memoirs of Samuel Alonza Cooke

The Civil War Diary of Rufus J. Woolwine

“June 1, 1861-June 7, 1865. Primarily in June. The diary of a young soldier from Patrick County, Virginia, this material includes valuable descriptions of life in the author's home state and the South in defeat.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Donelson Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Virginia, milt:51st Regiment Virginia Infantry, milt:Company C 51st Regiment Virginia Infantry, pd:1963, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:diary

The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861

“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than moving east with her husband and the Confederate army. She included incidents of the occupation, the…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fayette County WV, loc:Gauley Mount Plantation, loc:West Virginia, pd:1961, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence