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

Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen: Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana.

“Wartime governor of Louisiana.”

Tags: au:female, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1866, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:biography, ts:memory

Some Letters of the Barnard Elliott Habersham Family 1858-1868

“January 20, 1858 - April 27, 1868. South Carolina and Virginia. Some wartime letters of the family of an Episcopal rector in Sumter County, South Carolina.”

Life on the Old Plantation

1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Georgia, pd:1923, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern

The Journal of Sarah G. Follansbee

Tags: au:female, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern, su:northern perspective, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:diary

ANTE-BELLUM AND WAR MEMORIES OF MRS. TELFAIR HODGSON

“Wartime memories from a plantation near Savannah.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Chatham County GA, loc:Colerain Plantation, loc:Georgia, loc:Tweedside Plantation, pd:1943, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Experiences of Sarah J. Yeater, Written in 1909 and 1910 for my Three
Granddaughters, Frances, and Christine Yeater and Jeanette Brookmeyer

“Southern sympathies forced to flee south in Arkansas and Texas.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Adventures on My Trip to Texas in the Fall of 1864

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1984, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Texas, pd:1945, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Winter Spent in Texas and Our Return to Missouri

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Texas, pd:1945, su:child girl, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

My Experience During the War Between the States

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, pd:1945, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Governor Milton and His Family. A Contemporary Picture of Life in Florida during the War

“An extract from her "Life in the South, etc."

Tags: au:english, au:female, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:observer, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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