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

Secession Is Nothing but Revolution: A Letter of R. E. Lee to His Son "Rooney"

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Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861

“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…

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The Battle of Fort Sumter as Seen from Morris Island

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The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861

“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than moving east with her husband and the Confederate army. She included incidents of the occupation, the…

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