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

A Love-Sick Volunteer

“Summer of 1861. Place not stated. A story of romance early in the war.”

Tags: era:1861, pd:1893, su:war experience, su:warfront

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, loc:Saline County Ar, milt:1st Arkansas Regiment Arkansas Volunteers, pd:1972, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“July 4, 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. A pleasant spoof of confederate food shortages at the siege of Vicksburg.”

Tags: era:1863, era:Civil War, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront

“1861-1865. Texas to Kentucky. The recollections of Texas wife who tried to follow her husband toward the war front, where he died.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, he:battle of new orleans, milt:terry's texas rangers, pd:1893, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

“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

Tags: he:Olustee, loc:Florida, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, su:camp life, su:religion, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, milt:18th Regiment Virginia Infantry CSA, pd:1907, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:autobiography

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

“Spring 1863. Near Florence, Alabama. A lady recalls how Yankee raiders “plundered through our double parlors” in Union General Wilson’s raid.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Florence Al, pd:1932, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:memory