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

The Reminiscences of a Texas Missionary

“A French missionary in Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas, 1852-1887.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Galveston Tx, loc:San Antonio Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1899, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:observer, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:biography

The Experiences of an Unrecognized Senator

Tags: era:1866, era:postwar, loc:Red River County TX, loc:Texas, pd:1908, su:civilian, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days

“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1900, su:battlefield, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

Some Reactions of Union Soldiers Stationed in the South during the Civil War

Tags: au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Brazos Santiago TX, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Minneapolis MN, loc:Minnesota, loc:Texas, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:war experience

A Waif From Texas

“Ante-bellum recollections of life on a plantation, slaves in Texas Panhandle after the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

My Confederate Grandmothers

“1861-1865. Texas. A woman recalls stories about her grandmothers’ wartime experiences.”

Tags: era:1860s, loc:houston tx, loc:lexington tn, loc:Tennessee, loc:Texas, pd:1893, su:homefront

Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory