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

WAR JOURNAL OF A CONFEDERATE OFFICER

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Muscle Shoals Al, loc:Tuscumbia Al, milt:24th Regiment Tennessee Volunteers, pd:1946, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:diary

War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana

“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, pd:1930, su:African American, su:education, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

What Fort Fisher Meant to the Confederacy

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

When South Carolina Seceded

“November 8, 1860-July 14, 1863. A lady offers her recollections of Columbia, South Carolina during secession time—as reflected in her teenage journal.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1921, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:memory

When the States Seceded; From the Diary of Mrs. Eugene McLean

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1914, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Whitaker’s Reminiscences, Incidents and Anecdotes; Recollections of Other Days and years, or, What I Saw and heard, and Thought of People Whom I Knew, and What They Did and Said

“Wake County journalist candidly recalls events in North Carolina.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

William Parker Cutler's Congressional Diary Of 1862-63

WILLIAM PARKER CUTLER'S CONGRESSIONAL DIARY OF 1862-63 Allan G. Bogue William Parker Cutler's career in the first United States Congress of the Civil War appears at first glance to have been less than noteworthy. Elected as a Republican to the House…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Ohio, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1987, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary