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

Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A description of the full of the Confederate capital by a man “living on Church Hill in the city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“This brief work concentrates on wartime Charleston.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Battery Wagner, he:Battle of Fort Wagner, he:Second Battle of Fort Wagner, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Fort Wagner SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry, milt:Company D 1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

“Early in 1863. Fredericksburg, Virginia. A description of destruction in the Virginia river town.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fredericksburg, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Mississippi, loc:Shiloh MS, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:autobiography

“1861-1865. North Carolina, primarily from Raleigh and Asheboro. These letters reflect Worth's service in the state senate and as state treasurer.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

“October 1862, August 1863. Missouri. Recollections of home font woes of Confederates in Missouri.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative