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

Account of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever Which Visited Pensacola Navy Yard in the Summer and Autumn of 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:Pensacola Navy Yard FL, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Experiences

“August 20, 1861-May 1864. Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. A brief summary by a farm boy from Ohio who served in three states. His account has some useful material about the early years of the war- especially in Missouri.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Camp Chase OH, loc:Missouri, loc:Ohio, milt:27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1949, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbus. Ky, loc:Kentucky, milt:39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1953, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Union Band Director Views Camp Rolla, 1861

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Rolla MO, milt:13th Illinois Infantry, pd:1961, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865

“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her…