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

Reconstruction in Yazoo County

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond: Early Recollections; Vivid Portrayal of Amusing Scenes

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:gates county nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:suffolk va, loc:the dismal swamp, loc:Virginia, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:travel, ts:narrative

When Missouri Went into the War

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Recollections of Harriet DuBose Kershaw Lang, Part 1

Tags: era:1861-1865, era:postwar, he:Appomattox, loc:South Carolina, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding

Recollections of Harriet du Bose Kershaw Lang, Part 2

Tags: era:1861-1865, era:postwar, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc: Columbia sc, loc:Hard scramble va, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:slaveholding, su:war experience

Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Evacuation of Richmond

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Southern Woman's Bravery

“1863. Vicksburg to Brandon, Mississippi. A confederate veteran recalls how a brave woman—assisted by a Union captain from Wisconsin—save her family’s treasures from Yankee plunderers.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Brandon MS, loc:Mississippi, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory