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

FANNY COHEN'S JOURNAL OF SHERMAN'S OCCUPATION OF SAVANNAH

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1957, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

A Poor Widow Asks for Food: 1865

“May 8, 1865. A Baldwin County, Georgia woman wrote this letter to Union Major General James H. Wilson, revealing the lingering desolation caused by Sherman's march across Georgia.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Baldwin County Ga, loc:Macon County Ga, pd:1968, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

In Hospital and Camp: A Woman's Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Late War

Tags: era:1864, era:1865, loc:Washington D.C., milt:3rd Division, su:camp hospital, su:camp life, su:female experience, su:medical

The South Since the War, as Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas

"Fall of 1865. South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. This very perceptive description of three defeated states originated as a series of letters from a reporter for the Boston Daily Advertiser and the Chicago Tribune. American Culture…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, loc:North Carolina, loc:South Carolina, su:African American, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:observer, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Winter Spent in Texas and Our Return to Missouri

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Texas, pd:1945, su:child girl, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Wilson's Raid and Other Recital

Going Home From the Army

“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Sherman's Trail Through South Carolina

“May 1865. South Carolina. The trail of destruction across South Carolina described by an ex-Confederate soldier, immediately after the end of combat.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:South Carolina, loc:Winnsboro SC, pd:1927, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory