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

The Experiences of an Unrecognized Senator

Tags: era:1866, era:postwar, loc:Red River County TX, loc:Texas, pd:1908, su:civilian, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Some Recollections of George Caleb Bingham

“1861-1865. Missouri. General memories of the great Missouri artist, including his wartime activities.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days

“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Fauquier County VA, loc:Kinloch VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1924, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Westover Journal of John A. Selden, Esqr

“The personal journal of the owner of the great James River plantation, which clearly reflects the effects of the war on his personal life and fortune.”