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

Down In Louisiana, 1862

“1862. Louisiana. A Presbyterian minister remembers the heat, mosquitoes, and concern for the CSA.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Pecan Groove LA, pd:1919, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:prison, su:religion, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

Experiences of a War-Time Girl

“1861-1864. Northern Virginia. The memories and joys of the war by a then-young girl who had “never forgotten the horrors of the War between the States.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1927, su:child girl, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:prison, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Forty years at El Paso, 1858-1898.

“A Unionist recalls Civil War El Paso. 2nd edition.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:El Paso Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:memory

George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862

Tags: au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:the great hanging at gainesville texas 1862, loc:collin county tx, loc:Cooke County TX, loc:denton county tx, loc:Gainesville TX, loc:grayson county tx, loc:Texas, loc:wise county tx, pd:1963, su:homefront, su:local history, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Henry M. Stanley in Arkansas and the Dixie Grays

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, milt:6th Arkansas Regiment of Volunteers CSA, pd:1942, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:memory

In War Time: Two Years in the Confederacy and Two Years North

“Reminiscences concerning Confederate and Virginia wartime politics.”

Tags: era:1850s, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence

INSIDE LIBBY AND OUT

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Libby Prison for Union Officers, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:1st Kentucky Regiment, milt:Company D 1st Kentucky Regiment, pd:1961, su:daily life, su:military, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

LAND AND LABOR IN KENTUCKY, 1865; LETTERS TO GEORGE LEWIS GREATHOUSE

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Shelbyville Ky, loc:Versailles Ky, pd:1950, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

LETTER FROM AN EYEWITNESS AT ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, 1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, he:Andersonville Prison, loc:Andersonville Ga, loc:Georgia, milt:Provisional Army of the Confederate States, pd:1954, su:Andersonville Prison, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Fort Mackinac Island MI, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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