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

An Adventurous Trip

“1863? Memphis, Tennessee. A young woman’s trip to the river city with a friend.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tallahatchie County MS, loc:Tennessee, pd:1909, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

LETTERS OF A CONFEDERATE SURGEON IN THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE TO HIS WIFE, Part 2

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Knoxville Tn, loc:Tennessee, milt: Company D 20th Tennessee Regiment, milt:20th Tennessee Regiment, pd:1945, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

LETTERS OF A CONFEDERATE SURGEON IN THE ARMY OF TENNESSEE TO HIS WIFE, Part 1

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Knoxville Tn, loc:Tennessee, milt: Company D 20th Tennessee Regiment, milt:20th Tennessee Regiment, pd:1945, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Seventy years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1893, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, ts:narrative

A Nice Pair of Moccasins

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Birmingham TN, loc:Florence TN, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1884, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

Army Relief Work by Women of the Confederacy

“1861-1865. General CSA. A proud summary of confederate Women’s tireless efforts.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1917, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Inside the Lines at Franklin

“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1895, su:battlefield, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative