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

CIVIL WAR LETTERS

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Crittenden County Ky, loc:Kentucky, pd:1974, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Montgomery AL, milt:Columbus Guards, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Garfield's Bottom Ky, loc:Harrison County Ky, loc:PikeVille Ky, loc:Prestonsburg Ky, milt:Mounted Infantry, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“Politics, little of battlefront; recollections of former Governor of North Carolina.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, pd:1911, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

“May 1865. Meridian, Mississippi. A soldier recalls the “heartrending condition of my father’s home when 1 reached it: in eastern Mississippi.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

“April 1865. Central North Carolina. An eyewitness recalls some of the details about the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s troops.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

“December 25, 1861. Northern Virginia. The first Yuletide day of the war at Stuart's Cavern.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:First Battle of Bull Run, loc: ‎Fairfax County‎ VA, loc:Virginia, milt:1st Virginia Cavalry, pd:1883, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1899, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory