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

Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne

“Yankee teacher in the South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Sea Islands SC, loc:South Carolina, loc:St. Helena Island Sc, pd:1912, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

“1864. Missouri. A Missouri Confederate recalls her daring and trying experiences to serve the CSA.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc: Kansas City MO, loc:Liberty Landing MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Seven Days Battle, loc:Hanover County VA, loc:Mechanicsville Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Richmond. Virginia Lite in the Confederate capital in the memory of a young woman.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1912, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory