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

The Women of Alabama in the War

“1861-1865. Alabama. Memories of “one then in her teens” of the work of women in ‘that wonderful period of our beloved South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1916, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:biography

The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Three Hundred Miles in a Wagon

“Summer of 1865. Central Alabama to Franklin, Tennessee. A former Confederate refugee from the Union occupation carefully remembers her long wagon trip back home a few weeks after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1908, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Story of a Soldier’s Life

“Experiences on a visit to CSA Army in 1862.”

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1903, su:British, su:foreign, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Three Civil War Letters

Tags: era:1861, era:1864, era:1865, loc:camp walker, loc:Tennessee, su:economics, su:medical, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence