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

Governor Letcher's Candid Correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1964, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Grandfather's tales of North Carolina history.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:confederate, su:local history, su:southern, ts:narrative

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Historical Incidents: What "Our Women in the War" Did and Suffered

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

History of Banking in South Carolina from 1712 to 1900

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:South Carolina, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:economics, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

How a Woman Helped to Save Richmond

“March 1884. Richmond, Virginia. The wife of the Confederate secretary of War helps to thwart Ulric Dahlgren’s raid on the CSA capital.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:narrative

How I took a Letter on a Yankee General

“No Date. Maryland to “Western Virginia.” A schoolgirl’s teasing of an “enemy” officer.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Harrisburg Pa, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1920, su:child girl, su:military, su:southern, su:union, ts:memory

How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels

“This is a trustworthy account which does not attempt to record minute details, conversations, and exact dates. Mrs. Irby Morgan was married to a brother of General John H. Morgan and was living in Nashville when the war broke out. Morgan left…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1892, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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