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

A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861

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Reminiscences and Anecdotes of the North Carolina Bar

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative

Whitaker’s Reminiscences, Incidents and Anecdotes; Recollections of Other Days and years, or, What I Saw and heard, and Thought of People Whom I Knew, and What They Did and Said

“Wake County journalist candidly recalls events in North Carolina.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

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

Life in Civil War East Texas

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Evacuation of Richmond

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Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“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:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

When Missouri Went into the War

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

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Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Albemarle County Nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1957, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:diary

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