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

Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Two Boys in the Civil War and After

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Montgomery AL, milt:Columbus Guards, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tupelo

"A sequel to THE IRON FURNACE, narrating the experiences of a Union Presbyterian clergyman in northeast Mississippi during the secession period useful as an account of the intense feelings of the time; includes much information about the condition of…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tupelo ms, pd:1888, su:confederate, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:union, ts:narrative

True Stories of Adventures of the Civil War: The Memoirs of W. G. D. Hinds

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Springfield MO, loc:Webb City MO, pd:1954, su:confederate, su:medical, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tribute to Admiral Raphael Semmes

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1911, su:confederate, su:military, ts:biography

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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“1861-1865. The fascinating eyewitness account of Carter Anderson, a railroad conductor for the Confederacy. Anderson ran trains for the Virginia Central Railroad during Union Cavalry raids and movements of General Lee and Jackson's troops around…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1990, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:Railroads, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Tom Burton; or, The days of '61.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:child boy, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

To Coosawhatchie in December 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort District SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:Leake's Battery of Turner's Artillery, pd:1952, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Three Letters of William Henry Trescot to Howell Cobb, 1861

“January 14-February 3, 1861. Beaufort, South Carolina. Concerns South Carolinian Trescot's involvement in the secession crisis.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Barnwell Island SC, loc:Barnwell Island Plantation SC, loc:England, loc:South Carolina, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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