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

Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

“April 23, 1861. Prairie Farm, Tennessee. Volunteer state pride and Southern loyalty expressed in a young woman’s letter.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Prairie Farm Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1924, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

“A very useful account of wartime New Orleans, before and after Federal occupation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Maryland, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1911, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1912, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

“1861-1865. Texas. A woman recalls stories about her grandmothers’ wartime experiences.”

Tags: era:1860s, loc:houston tx, loc:lexington tn, loc:Tennessee, loc:Texas, pd:1893, su:homefront

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Pensacola FL, pd:1959, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative, ts:offical documents

“Ante-bellum recollections of life on a plantation, slaves in Texas Panhandle after the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Rome AL, pd:1956, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Clover Hill Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:memory