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

Surrender of Johnston's Army

“April of 1865. Near Durham, North Carolina. An eyewitness account of the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s valiant troops.”

Tags: era:1863, era:1865, he:Appomattox, loc:Appomattox VA, loc:Newberry SC, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:5th south carolina cavalry, pd:1920

"Some wartime reminiscences by Southern women and the diary of Judith B. McGuire"

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography