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

Vivid War Experiences at Ripley, Miss

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:ripley MS, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Virginians Face Reconstruction: Correspondence from the James Dorman Davidson Papers, 1865-1880

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Unionists in Rockbridge County: The Correspondence of James Dorman Davidson concerning the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Rockbridge County VA, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:correspondence

TWO TIMROD LETTERS

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Columbus NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:economics, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

To Coosawhatchie in December 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort District SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:Leake's Battery of Turner's Artillery, pd:1952, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Three Letters of William Henry Trescot to Howell Cobb, 1861

“January 14-February 3, 1861. Beaufort, South Carolina. Concerns South Carolinian Trescot's involvement in the secession crisis.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Barnwell Island SC, loc:Barnwell Island Plantation SC, loc:England, loc:South Carolina, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Three Civil War Letters

Tags: era:1861, era:1864, era:1865, loc:camp walker, loc:Tennessee, su:economics, su:medical, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863;

“Vol. VII covers the Civil War era.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1938, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:correspondence, ts:memory, ts:offical documents

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