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

A Girl's Experience in the Siege of Vicksburg

“Personal reminiscence of the siege.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Girl's Recollections of War

“1863? Pulaski County, Virginia. “A schoolgirl during the War” remembers poignant events on the home front.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, loc:Edgewood WV, loc:Pulaski County Virginia, loc:Virginia, loc:West Virginia, su:battlefield, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Great Old-Time Schoolmaster

“1861-1865. Nashville, Tennessee. A fond remembrance of the Rev. C.D. Elliott, wartime "principal of the old Nashville Female Academy.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1922, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:religion, su:southern, ts:memory

A Heroine of the Sixties

“1863-1865. Giles County. Virginia. An unidentified woman described a valiant young neighbor who always helped Confederates and “met every vicissitude with dauntless courage that never wavered.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Giles County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1921, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Bleak Hall Plantation SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Letter from Dardanelle to Jonesville, South Carolina

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Jonesville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1969, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Letter from Occupied Tallahassee

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:The Battle of Natural Bridge, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862

“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A March Past: Reminiscences of Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allen

"References to Stonewall Jackson and other Civil War materials."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

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