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

Virginians Face Reconstruction: Correspondence from the James Dorman Davidson Papers, 1865-1880

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Flower de Hundred: The Story of a Virginia Plantation

“Life before and during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, loc:Virginia, pd:1890, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern

The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy.

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:narrative

A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fairfax Va, loc:Virginia, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Mrs. Greenhow, Confederate Spy

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:family narrative, su:military, su:spy, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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“1861-1865. The fascinating eyewitness account of Carter Anderson, a railroad conductor for the Confederacy. Anderson ran trains for the Virginia Central Railroad during Union Cavalry raids and movements of General Lee and Jackson's troops around…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1990, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:Railroads, su:southern, ts:autobiography