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

Fall of Richmond

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Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1885

“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former resident of the CSA capital describes the awesome events of the fall of the city.”

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From the Diary of John R. Thompson

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Governor Letcher's Candid Correspondence

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How a Woman Helped to Save Richmond

“March 1884. Richmond, Virginia. The wife of the Confederate secretary of War helps to thwart Ulric Dahlgren’s raid on the CSA capital.”

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In and Around Richmond

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INSIDE LIBBY AND OUT

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Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

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