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

Mrs. Greenhow, Confederate Spy

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:family narrative, su:military, su:spy, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Memories Grave and Gay

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Mammy Susan's Story

Tags: au:female, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

My Confederate Girlhood: The Memoirs of Kate Virginia Cox Logan

“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Clover Hill Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Memoirs, Letters, and Diary Entries of German Settlers in Northwest Arkansas, 1853-1863

“Often poignant contemporary views of the war's effects among recent German immigrants in the hill country north of Fort Smith.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1947, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Leaves from an old Washington Diary, 1854-1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Port Tobago Plantation, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1943, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

Joseph Carson: Louisiana Confederate Soldier

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Recollections Grave and Gay

“Burton Harrison was private secretary to Jeff Davis. This work describes social life in CSA, especially in Richmond; also includes opinions on Confederate leaders.”

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