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

The Journal of Julia LeGrand

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1912, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Yankee in Louisiana: Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Henry R. Gardner, 1862-1866

Tags: 10th U.S. Colored Artillery, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:18th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery, milt:Company G 10th US Colored Artillery, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans

“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War

Tags: au:northern, era:1863, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:Army of the Potomac, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Wisconsin Soldier Reports from New Orleans

"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

My Beloved South

Reminiscences of Wartime

“An anonymous diary from wartime New Orleans.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1895, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:diary, ts:memory

Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler

“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:civilian, su:economics, su:travel, ts:narrative

A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862

“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:southern, ts:correspondence

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