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

CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF ALBERT BOULT FALL GUNNER FOR THE CONFEDERACY

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Bowling Green Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:Rock City Guards, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Civil War Letters of George W. Allen

“July 24 - November 30, 1862. Arkansas. A Texas farm boy describes life near his Confederate Army post in central Arkansas in three letters.”

Tags: 10th Texas Infantry, 35th texas Cavalry, au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Austin Ar, loc:Texas, milt:23rd Brigade Washington County Dixie Blues, milt:Company A 10th Texas Infantry, milt:Company B Brown's Battalion 35th Texas Cavalry, milt:Dixie Blues Washington County, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, ts:correspondence

Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman from North Carolina

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:Battle of New Bern, he:Battle of Roanoke Island, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Roanoke Island NC, pd:1973, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Civil War Letters of Sam Houston

“October 7, 1862-April 21, 1863. Huntsville, Texas. Three letters to the editor of the Nacogdoches Chronicle reveal ex-Governor Samuel Houston s criticism of President Jefferson Davis and leading generals and his despondency over the declining…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Cedar Point Tx, loc:Huntsville Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1978, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deadrick

“1861-March 17, 1869. Eastern Tennessee. In recollections written in 1890 and 1898," Facts Transpiring Within My Own Knowledge During the War in 1863-1864," on outspoken woman describes the many stresses and strains of the war in Appalachian area of…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chattanooga TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1948, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams

“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he witnessed Quantrill's Raid), and finally to Topeka.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas, loc:Lawrence KS, pd:1984, su:African American, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:narrative