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

Selma and Dallas County, Alabama During the Civil War

“1861-1865. Selma, Alabama. An old Confederate reviews the war years in a key city on the Alabama River.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Dallas County AL, loc:Selma Al, pd:1916, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:occupation, ts:narrative

Clark County Salt Works

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Clarke County Al, loc:Grove HIll AL, pd:1958, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, pd:1982, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Other Days

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Chunnenuggee Ridge Plantation AL, loc:Union Springs AL, pd:1943, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Days That Are No More: or, Plantation Life As it Was, Part 2

The Days that are No More: or, Plantation Life as it Was, Part 1

A Night of Terror

“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

War-Time Journal of a 'Little Rebell'

“September 26, 1862-May 2, 1865. Near Courtland, Alabama. Excerpts from the diary of a young lady who began her writing on a plantation at age fourteen.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Courtland Al, loc:Rocky Hill Al, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:diary

Army letters of "Personne," 1861-1865. Vol. 1, no. 1-Vol. 1, no. 2.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Cummings Point Charleston Hatbor, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:South Carolina, pd:1896, pd:1897, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War

“Recollections by administrator and Nurse in CSA hospital and "stories" she heard from other contemporaries.”

Tags: au:female, era:1861-1865, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:Battle of the Wilderness, loc:Alabama, loc:Gainesville Al, loc:Georgia, loc:Newnan GA, pd:1888, su:female experience, su:medical, ts:memory

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