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

A War Correspondent's View of St. Augustine and Fernandina: 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Fernandina Fl, loc:Florida, loc:St. Augustine FL, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, ts:correspondence

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers

“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Connecticut Yankee after Olustee

Tags: au:northern, era:1864, loc:connecticut, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Bluecoat's Account of the Camden Expedition

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, pd:1965, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Monotony Full of Sadness: The Diary of Nadine Turchin, May, 1863-April, 1864

“May 26, 1863-April 26, 1864. Wife of Brigadier General John Basil Tuchin who followed her husband to Tennessee. She was critical of everyone in charge of the conduct of the war, especially those who were profiting from the war. She noted her views…

A Picture of the Desolated States: And the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, pd:1868, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

A Balcony in Charleston

“Letters of life and times of Caroline Howard Gilman, experiences of a "Confederate Mother", during Civil War, to her sister in the North and to her daughter, the wife of James Russell Lowell.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1941, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbus. Ky, loc:Kentucky, milt:39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1953, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Auguste Laugel Visits the Army of the Potomac

“January 1865. Northern Virginia. This curious French visitor describes the effect of the war in Virginia, a black military unit, and the camps. He noted the variety of social classes and the lack of deference to rank among the officers, in the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Richmond VA, milt:Army of the Potomac, pd:1961, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, ts:memory

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