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

Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861

“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…

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The Freedmen at Port Royal

Tags: era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:Sea Islands SC, loc:South Carolina, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:slavery, ts:narrative

Sketches and Reminiscences

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Seven Months a Prisoner, or Thirty-Six Days in the Woods

“Journey through western North Carolina following his escape.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1868, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:southern, ts:narrative

Sherman Burns the Libraries

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1870, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Camdem SC, loc:Carleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1954, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:observer, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The McDonalds; or, The Ashes of Southern Homes. A Tale of Sherman's March

“May be fiction, reviewed in THE LAND WE LOVE, III (1867), 270-272.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, loc:South Carolina, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

When South Carolina Seceded

“November 8, 1860-July 14, 1863. A lady offers her recollections of Columbia, South Carolina during secession time—as reflected in her teenage journal.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1921, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:memory

War Letters of the Bishop of Richmond

“April 25, 1861-December 17, 1863. The correspondence between John McGill and the Bishop of Charleston illustrates the disruption the war created within the Catholic Church over such matters as the recommendation of clerics for elevation to the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence