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

Occupied Beaufort, 1863: A War Correspondent's View

“June 17, 1863. Beaufort, South Carolina. A view of the occupied seaport by a reporter for the Sacramento Daily Union.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1963, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, ts:correspondence

Letters of James Lusk Alcorn

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc: Eagles Nest MS, loc:Coahoma County MS, loc:Eagles Nest Plantation MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Mount Place Plantation MS, pd:1937, su:confederate, su:economics, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters To and From Jacob Thompson

“Postwar letters recall Thompson's wartime activities especially as a CSA agent in Europe.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:North Carolina, pd:1940, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Eight Months in Missouri: The Civil War Letters of Philander H. Nesbit

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Bleak Hall Plantation SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter, 1826-1876

Hunter was a prominent Virginia states’ rights Democrat, US Senator, 1847-1861.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:slavery, ts:correspondence

Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Fort Mackinac Island MI, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War

"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862

December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”

Tags: au:enslaved, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Harrison County TX, loc:Spring Hill TX, loc:Texas, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

THE CAMPAIGN FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA AS SEEN BY A FEDERAL SOLDIER

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Chattanooga, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1941, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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