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

Chapel Hill at the Close of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Closing Scene with Johnston's Army

“April 1865. Central North Carolina. An eyewitness recalls some of the details about the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s troops.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

Conditions Just After the War

“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate surrender”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, pd:1931, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, Being Some Account of Historic Events on the Cape Fear River, Raleigh, N.C.

“Half of the book relates to CSA operations. Wilmington was last Confederate port closed during the war, so this volume is mine of information on blockade running and naval history about these strategic ports.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cape Fear Nc, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1914, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, ts:narrative