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

Plantation Life in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:jackson county, loc:North Carolina, loc:webster nc, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:memory

Pay the Preacher! Two Letters from Louisiana, 1864

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Opelousas LA, loc:Opelousas District LA, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Private Journal of Mary Ann Owen Sims, Part II

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1976, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

Pleasant Days in War Time

“1862-1865. Virginia. An ex-confederate soldier remembers how helpful civilians were to him.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, milt:2nd North Carolina Cavalry, pd:1929, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Robert Ormsby Sweeny: Some Civil War Sketches

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1983, su:camp life, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Ruin and Reconstruction of Southern States

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1874, su:African American, su:civilian, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Reconstruction in Yazoo County

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Richmond, Virginia: The Evacuation of the City and the Days Preceding It

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia, and route of Confederate evacuees. An eyewitness account of the fall of Richmond and the flight southward”

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Danville VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Reminiscences of the Early Settlement and Early Settlers of McNairy County, Tennessee

“CSA General, of 6th Tennessee.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:McNairy County TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1882, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Rev. William S. White, D.D., and his Times, 1800-1873: An Autobiography

“Much on the Civil War, especially Lexington, Virginia.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Hanover County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1891, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

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