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

INSIDE LIBBY AND OUT

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Libby Prison for Union Officers, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:1st Kentucky Regiment, milt:Company D 1st Kentucky Regiment, pd:1961, su:daily life, su:military, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops

“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”

Tags: au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, milt:112th United States Colored Troops, pd:1981, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letter of John Campbell, Unionist

“John Campbell, Searcy County delegate to the secession convention of 1861, explains why he voted for secession. The period of secession and later summarizing the negotiations for peace in 1864 and 1865.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, au:union, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1970, su:non-slaveholding white, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:correspondence

Military Medicine in Occupied New Orleans, 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Some War Scenes Revisited

“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, pd:1878, su:African American, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Some Neglected Aspects of the American Civil War: Recollections of John C. Wade

“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Williamsburg, he:Seven Days Battle, loc:Harrison's Landing Va, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Yorktown Va, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory