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

The Siege and Fall of Selma, Alabama

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Selma, loc:Selma Al, pd:1923, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Extinguishing the Lights: The Teche District

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Extinguishing the Lights: 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, pd:1978, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Village Life in America, 1852-1872 including the period of the American civil war as told in the diary of a schoolgirl

General David Hunter's Sack of Lexington, Virginia, June 10-14, 1864: An Account by Rose Page Pendleton

“June 10-14, 1864. Lexington, Virginia. The daughter of Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton related how the women and children faced uncertainty and terror five days after the Federals came to their proud town.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sack of Lexington VA, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1975, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

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

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

Random Recollections of a Long Life, 1806 to 1876.

“Life in South Carolina, principally in Columbia and Lexington, limited material on war years.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Lexington SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

Plantation Life in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:jackson county, loc:North Carolina, loc:webster nc, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:memory

Inside the Lines at Franklin

“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1895, su:battlefield, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

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