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

My Experience During the War Between the States

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, pd:1945, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Marse Henry: An Autobiography

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1919, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Memorials of Academic Life, Being a Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations with the History of Higher Education in South and Southwest

“Dr. Moses Waddel was President of the University of Georgia. Includes a sketch. Also, an autobiography of John N. Waddel and material on wartime Mississippi.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:McCormick County SC, loc:South Carolina, loc:Willington SC, loc:Willington Academy SC, pd:1891, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923

"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Memorials of a Southern Planter

“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Burleigh Plantation MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Raymond MS, pd:1887, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

My Diary in America in the Midst of War

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1865, su:English, su:foreign, su:homefront, su:military, su:observer, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

My Diary North and South

“William Howard Russell in March 1861 arrived in the United States as a special correspondent for the London Times. Landing in New York, he entered the South in April and traveled by train to the Alabama River and then to Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort…

Tags: au:Irish, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1863, su:foreign, su:homefront, su:Ireland, su:Irish, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory

My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life

“This is the reminiscence of a chatty, cultural, and proud Virginia lady, wife of a key political leader. She viewed the wartime scene with a sad reserve and looked back with fondness on antebellum tranquility. Includes material from REMINISCENCES OF…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1905, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory