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

ANOTHER LETTER FROM "THE REBEL LAWYER" MONTFORT

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Butler Ga, loc:Fort Pulaski Ga, milt:25th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, pd:1968, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862

“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Christmas Story

Tags: au:male, era:1861, era:1862, loc:Dutch Mills Ar, loc:Hermannsburg Ar, loc:Washington County Ar, pd:1950, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:slavery, ts:memory

Alabama Secedes From the Union

“November 1860-January 1861. Montgomery. Alabama. A judge reviews the election events in 1860 and the secession debates in Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

Alabama's Secession Convention, 1861

“January 1861. Montgomery, Alabama. Recollections of the conventions by a delegate—prepared by his grandson.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Alabama's Secession Convention, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, ts:narrative

A CONFEDERATE VIEW OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY, 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:southern Kentucky, milt:Company B 14th Mississippi Regiment, milt:Mississippi Enterprise Guards, pd:1972, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fairfax Va, loc:Virginia, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot

“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…

Tags: au:female, era:1860, era:1860s, era:1861, era:1862, era:1863, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:diary