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

The Story of My Life

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The Stars and Bars: or, The Reign of Terror in Missouri

“In semi-fictional form, personal account of the hectic days of secession and war in northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri by a pro-Union author.”

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The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

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The Military Operations in Missouri in the Summer and Autumn of 1861

“June-December 1861. Missouri. A Union General discusses events in Missouri as the war began.”

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The Letters of William Beverley Randolph Hackley: Treasury Agent in West Tennessee, 1863-1866

“November 22, 1863 - April 2, 1866. Memphis and La Grange, Tennessee. Nine letters from a native Virginian, who had moved to Joliet, Illinois, before being sent to Western Tennessee as an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, to his family,…

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The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…

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