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

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

“In semi-fictional form, personal account of the hectic days of secession and war in northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri by a pro-Union author.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Missouri, pd:1863, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, milt:Company D Seventh regiment of Virginia Infantry, pd:1914, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Galveston NC, loc:North Carolina, milt:Naval, pd:1863, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Burning of Danville MO, loc:Danville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1950, pd:1951, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

“February 20, 1863. New Orleans, Louisiana. A woman remembers how she and others used their handkerchiefs to help Confederate prisoners.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:The Battle of the Handkerchiefs, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Louisiana, pd:1923, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, su:The Battle of the Handkerchiefs, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Van Buren Ar, milt:7th Regiment Cavalry MIssouri Volunteers, milt:Black Hawk Cavalry, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:diary

“The Southern version of the destruction of the capital of South Carolina—often reprinted—by a distinguished eyewitness.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Burning of Columbia SC, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Colimbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1866, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tags: era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Prairie Grove, loc:Arkansas, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Prairie Grove AR, su:battlefield, su:medical, su:union, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Chattanooga, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1941, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence