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

When Richmond Was Evacuated

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A South Carolina soldier describes the “deafening, roaring flames of the burning city,” as the confederate capital was abandoned to Yankee invaders.”

Tags: au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Woman Saved Richmond City: Thrilling Story of Dahlgren's Raid and Mrs. Seddons' Old Blackberry Wine

“March 1864. Richmond, Virginia. A memory of one woman’s valiant effort to save Confederate capital during a Union cavalry attack.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Wilson's Raid and Other Recital

Vicksburg During The Siege

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1878, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Virginia Heroine, Mrs. E.A. Obenchain

“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lynchburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Valkyria, or Chaplets of Mars

“Epic of a fallen South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1881, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Village Life in America, 1852-1872 including the period of the American civil war as told in the diary of a schoolgirl

Vivid War Experiences at Ripley, Miss

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:ripley MS, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War, as Represented in Story, Anecdote, Adventure, and the Romance of Reality

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1896, su:battlefield, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

“By an Iowa lady why served in Union hospitals useful for Southern life described-Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, and most other areas of the CSA "west".

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Iowa, loc:Keokuk Iowa, loc:Mississippi, loc:South Carolina, pd:1895, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

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