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

Two little Confederates

“Based on boyhood experiences of Page and his brother Roswell.”

Unionists in Rockbridge County: The Correspondence of James Dorman Davidson concerning the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Rockbridge County VA, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:correspondence

Unpublished Chapters of History. Last Days of the Confederate Government. From Papers Left by Stephen R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy in the Confederate Cabinet

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Lafayette NY, loc:New York, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1900, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

Virginia Heroine, Mrs. E.A. Obenchain

“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lynchburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Virginians Face Reconstruction: Correspondence from the James Dorman Davidson Papers, 1865-1880

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

War Letters of the Bishop of Richmond

“April 25, 1861-December 17, 1863. The correspondence between John McGill and the Bishop of Charleston illustrates the disruption the war created within the Catholic Church over such matters as the recommendation of clerics for elevation to the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

War Memories of a Virginia Woman

“1861-1863. Northern Virginia. A lady recalls the hopeful beginnings of the war in the plantation are near the Chesapeake Bay and later her escape through Union lines to the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Norfolk VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1913, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory