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

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

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 to Escape the Yankees: Major Scott's Letter to His Wife at Tallahassee, March 1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Natural Bridge Battlefield, loc:Florida, loc:Leon County Fl, loc:Tallahassee FL, milt:2nd Florida Cavalry, pd:1971, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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

He Taught Near Eudora, Arkansas, in the Early Sixties

“Secondary article about Milan W. Seri, a young teacher from Wisconsin, who came to Arkansas in 1860, includes long portions of Seri's journal.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1860, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Eudora Ar, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1959, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:narrative

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