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

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1908, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Leaves from an old Washington Diary, 1854-1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Port Tobago Plantation, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1943, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

A March Past: Reminiscences of Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allen

"References to Stonewall Jackson and other Civil War materials."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Chronicles of Chicora Wood

“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgetown County Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1922, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Memories Grave and Gay

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:California, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:military, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Recollection and Reflections

“1861-1865. Tuskegee, Alabama. A young man’s remembrance of the war years, his fathers’ close friend William L. Yancey, Union raids under General Wilson in 1865, and “the reign of’ Reconstruction.”

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:tuskegee AL, pd:1893, su:family narrative, su:observer, su:slaveholding, su:slavery