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

Early Days of the War in Missouri

“June-December 1861. Missouri. A recollection of the deep divisions of loyalty in a key border state.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Echoes from the Battlefield; Or, Southern Life During the War

“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory

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

Elk Horn to Vicksburg

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Company E First Missouri Volunteers Cavalry CSA, milt:First Missouri Volunteers CSA, pd:1956, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

End of Vicksburg Campaign

“1862- 1863. Mississippi and Mobile. A Confederate chaplain’s experiences near the frontlines of battle and a trip to Mobile.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Jackson MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Mobile MS, pd:1920, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

Eneas Africanus

“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, loc:Texas, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence

Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin

“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated South by two key Confederates.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Cuba, loc:Richmond VA, pd:1910, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

Evacuation of Richmond

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Excerpts from the Wartime Correspondence of Augustine T. Smythe

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, milt:25th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, milt:5th South Carolina Cavalry of Logan's Brigade, milt:South Carolina College Cadets, pd:1961, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:seccession, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Exhumation of the Body of John C. Calhoun 1863

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:exhumation of John C. Calhoun, loc:Carleston SC, loc:Morris Island SC, pd:1951, su:medical, su:political, su:southern, ts:correspondence

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