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

The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1862, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:union, ts:offical documents

The Military Operations in Missouri in the Summer and Autumn of 1861

“June-December 1861. Missouri. A Union General discusses events in Missouri as the war began.”

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THE LETTERS OF A GEORGIA UNIONIST: JOHN G. WINTER AND THE RESTORATION OF THE UNION

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:1861, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:correspondence

THE LETTERS OF A GEORGIA UNIONIST: JOHN G. WINTER AND SECESSION

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The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Andersonville Ga, loc:Georgia, su:Andersonville Prison, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Journal of Sarah G. Follansbee

Tags: au:female, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern, su:northern perspective, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Freedmen of Port Royal

“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the Sea Islands at Port Royal.”

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