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

Recollections of War as a Child, 1861-65

“1863-1864. Knoxville, Tennessee. A lady recalls the siege and occupation of her city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Knoxville Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1928, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Experiences of Peyton, a Kentuckian, in various businesses in Kentucky, with the Constitutional Union Party, politics, various exhibitions, etc.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Philadelphia Pa, pd:1895, su:economics, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:travel, ts:memory

“1861- 1865. Indianola, Texas. A former resident describes a small but active wartime port on the Gulf of Mexico.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Esperanza, loc:Fort Esperanza Tx, loc:Matagorda Bay TX, loc:Texas, pd:1903, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Apalachicola Fl, loc:Florida, pd:1916, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory

“October-December 1865. Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain encounters Reconstruction his Presbyterian ministry.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Carroll County Tn, loc:Gibson County Tn, loc:Tennessee, milt:51st Tennessee Regiment, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, ts:memory

“1863. Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A wounded soldier goes “home” to recuperate and enjoy emotional support “by my old friends.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Tennessee, pd:1918, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, milt:49th Tennessee Regiment of Infantry, milt:Army of Northern Virginia, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1913, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Scott County Ky, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Raymond, Mississippi. Memories of childhood war years in a small Mississippi town.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Raymond, loc:Raymond MS, pd:1911, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory