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

My Lady of the South: A Story of the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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

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

Missouri Girl's Prison Experiences

“August 1864. Central Missouri. A young woman from Boonville, Missouri describes her travels after being arrested by Union officers.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:prison, 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