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

Reminiscences of War at the Close

“May 1865. Meridian, Mississippi. A soldier recalls the “heartrending condition of my father’s home when 1 reached it: in eastern Mississippi.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

The Fall of Charleston

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Fall of Charleston, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1965, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Last Capital of the Confederacy at Danville

“April 3-10, 1865. Danville, Virginia. A brief description of the last Confederate capital by an unnamed eyewitness.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Danville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Last Days of the Southern Confederacy: Scenes in Streets of Richmond-Fabulous Prices

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1891, su:daily life, su:economics, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Leaves From a Diary Kept by a Lady; During the Occupation of Winchester, Va., by the Federal Troops, Under General Milroy

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The Capture of Jefferson Davis

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc: Irwinville GA, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:Georgia, loc:South Carolina, pd:1966, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:political, ts:memory

The Diary of Thomas Conolly, M.P.: Virginia, March April 1865 in Notes and Documents

Tags: au:male, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, ts:diary

Documents Relating to Elisha Baxter's Imprisonment

Tags: au:southern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Batesville Ar, loc:Little Rock AR, loc:Pulaski County Ar, pd:1957, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:southern, su:union, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Columbia—As Seen by a Rebel Scouting Party the Day After Sherman’s Evacuation

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Columbia GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1882, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Georgia Woman's Civil War Diary: The Journal of Minerva Leah Rowles McClatchey, 1864-1865

“January 1864-September 1865. When Sherman's troops entered Georgia, Mr. McClatchey left the family farm near Marietta, GA. Mrs. McClatchey, however, chose to stay and face the invaders. She observed the plight of refugees returning to their…

Tags: era:1864, era:1865, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, su:agriculture, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:seccession, ts:diary

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