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

That Boy Joins the Army

“1861-1862. Louisville, Kentucky. A young sixteen-year-old decides to join the Confederate Army.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, pd:1919, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. An eyewitness account of the burning of the South Carolina capital.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Columbia, loc:Columbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1928, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:California, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:military, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1967, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:diary

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1966, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:diary

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, milt:3rd Regiment of MIssouri Volunteer Infantry, pd:1946, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, milt:3rd Regiment of MIssouri Volunteer Infantry, pd:1946, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Monterey VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:C.S.S. Patrick Henry, milt:Confederate States Naval Academy, milt:midshipmen, pd:1966, su:confederate, su:education, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Louisiana, milt:1st Lousisana Native Guards, pd:1994, su:African American, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

“June 7, 1860-September 7, 1862. Powder Springs, Georgia, and Virginia. Correspondence of a Georgia family as the war began.”