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

A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Camp Banks LA, loc:Hampton Roads Va, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, loc:Virginia, milt:48th Massachusetts Volunteers, pd:1961, su:African American, su:camp life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Account of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever Which Visited Pensacola Navy Yard in the Summer and Autumn of 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:Pensacola Navy Yard FL, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

As I Saw It

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Articles: ‘Life at the crossroads of the Confederacy, Atlanta 1861-1865 by Robert Gibbons’: ‘Foraging, scouting, and Skirmishing: the Federal occupation of Atlanta as seen in the letter of Maj. William C. Stevens, 9th Michigan Cavalry by…

Auguste Laugel Visits the Army of the Potomac

“January 1865. Northern Virginia. This curious French visitor describes the effect of the war in Virginia, a black military unit, and the camps. He noted the variety of social classes and the lack of deference to rank among the officers, in the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Richmond VA, milt:Army of the Potomac, pd:1961, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, ts:memory

Autobiographical Notes ane Memoranda

“200 numbered copies. On the cover: "On the Blockade, 1861 to 1863. Cotton planting in the Confederacy." A Northerner on a Mississippi plantation, north of Vicksburg.”

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, milt:Union Navy, pd:1911, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:union, ts:autobiography

Brigadier Surgeon John W. Trader's Recollections of the Civil War in Missouri

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Bushwhacker Activity on the Missouri Border: Letters to Dr. Glen O. Hardeman, 1862-1865

“1862- 1865. Western Missouri. A number of communications describe events in the area devastated by raiders supporting both sections in the war.”

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, milt:75th Regiment Militia Missouri, pd:1964, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:slaveholding, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation

"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers, and in detailing the ways of enslaved working on…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, pd:1865, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:union, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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