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

What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of Gen. Lee

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cumberland Valley VA, loc:Elizabethtown VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Wartime Scenes From Convent Windows: St. Cecilia, 1860 Through 1865

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1980, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:narrative

War-Time Journal of a 'Little Rebell'

“September 26, 1862-May 2, 1865. Near Courtland, Alabama. Excerpts from the diary of a young lady who began her writing on a plantation at age fourteen.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Courtland Al, loc:Rocky Hill Al, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:diary

War Time in Alexandria, Virginia

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alexandria VA, loc:Virginia, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

War Recollections, Story of the Evacuation of Petersburg, by an Eye-Witness; A Sad and Solemn Sabbath

“April 1, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A personal account of the education of key city south of Richmond.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1894, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

War Memories of a Virginia Woman

“1861-1863. Northern Virginia. A lady recalls the hopeful beginnings of the war in the plantation are near the Chesapeake Bay and later her escape through Union lines to the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Norfolk VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1913, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

War Letters of the Bishop of Richmond

“April 25, 1861-December 17, 1863. The correspondence between John McGill and the Bishop of Charleston illustrates the disruption the war created within the Catholic Church over such matters as the recommendation of clerics for elevation to the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence