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

Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Pioneer Talladega. Its Minutes and Memories, Chapter XXIII

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Telladega AL, pd:1954, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:offical documents

The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

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One Year of the War; Civil War Diary of John Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General, of the Confederate Army

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Prayer For The Spirit Of Acceptance: The Journal of Martha Wayles Robertson, 1860-66

“1860-1866. Robertson's diary often takes the form of a prayer, written as a spiritual exercise in self examination and communion with God. An early entry considered the threat of fratricide a national error, and she asked for God to reconcile the…

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Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

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The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte.

“The early chapters of this volume, written by a distinguished scientist describe his antebellum and wartime experiences in Georgia and South Carolina, especially at Columbia. See also WARE SHERMAN and WHEN THE WORLD END.”

Our Family Physician

“1861-1865. Eastern Virginia. A memory of the valiant work of a Virginia healer, Dr. Ezekiel Starke Tally of Hanover County.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cold Harbor VA, loc:Hanover County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1928, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Civil War through the Eyes of a Sixteen-Year-Old Black Officer: The Letters of Lieutenant John H. Crowder of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards

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Local Incidents of the War Between the States

"As a state historian for the U.D.C., Mrs. Cappieman gave her account of the war in the year 1901. The locale of her reminiscence’s centers on Claiborne County, MS. Through personal recollection, she vividly describes life in Mississippi during the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Claiborne County MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Port Gibson MS, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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