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

That Boy Joins the Army

“1861-1862. Louisville, Kentucky. A young sixteen-year-old decides to join the Confederate Army.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, pd:1919, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

The Battles of Big Hill and Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Big Hill, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Jackson County Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Richmond Ky, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

THE BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE, OCTOBER 8, 1862 AS DESCRIBED IN THE DIARY OF CAPTAIN ROBERT B. TAYLOR

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, he:Battle of Chaplin Hills, he:Battle of Perryville, loc:Kentucky, loc:Perrtvill Ky, pd:1962, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:correspondence

The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

“1860-August 2, 1865. Visiting in Abingdon, VA, when the war began, Hardin helped prepare soldiers for battle. Returning home to Harrodsburg, KY, she passed through Unionist East Tennessee. She found Nashville dull after the exhilaration of being…

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Harrodsburg KY, loc:Kentucky, pd:1963, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:diary, ts:narrative