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

A Confederate Surgeon's Story

“1861-1865. Lynchburg, Virginia. A former surgeon at Hospital No. 1 in Lynchburg, Virginia recalls the awful tragedies of the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:medical, su:war experience, ts:memory

Wilmington During the Blockade

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Wilmington, he:Seige of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1886, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Last Scenes of War: How I Got Home

“April-May 1863. Richmond to North Georgia. A former private recalls the weeks from the fall of Richmond until he reached his home in Georgia after a trying journey.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, pd:1919, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Random Recollections of an Octogenarian

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Reminiscences, Giving Sketches of Scenes Through Which the Author has Passed and Pen Pictures of People who have Modified his Life

Experiences of a War-Time Girl

“1861-1864. Northern Virginia. The memories and joys of the war by a then-young girl who had “never forgotten the horrors of the War between the States.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1927, su:child girl, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:prison, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory