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

Macon in the War Between the States

“1861-1865. Macon, Georgia. A review of the war’s effect upon the key city in central Georgia.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Macon GA, pd:1924, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

My Return from Dixie

“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home to Middle Tennessee soon after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Macon MS, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, pd:1906, su:African American, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

My Moving Tent

“Several chapters on CSA, minutes of Gen. Assoc., chaplains, and missionaries of Army of Tennessee.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Shelbyville Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

My Lady of the South: A Story of the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Mrs. Tinsley's War Recollections, 1862-1865

“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, he:Peninsula Campaign, loc:Peninsula Va, loc:Virginia, loc:Virginia Peninsula, pd:1927, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

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

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