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

Reminiscences of the Civil War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:buena vista fl, loc:Florida, loc:lake buena vista fl, pd:1958, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:non-slaveholding white, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Monthly Concert at Tampa Bay

“A missionary describes her visit to a one-room church; hymns were sung, and church officials tried to secure contributions for the donation box.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Hillsborough County FL, loc:Tampa Bay FL, pd:1862, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work: Letters from American Missionary Association Teachers in Florida, 1864-1874

Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men

"A summary of events during the Civil War, at Pensacola, Apalachicola Bay, Santa Rosa Island, and Olustee, FL.."

Tags: era:1861, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:eastern shore va, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:St. Augustine FL, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Punta Rassa FL, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:Native American, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory