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

The Culture of the Old South

“1861-1865. General. “One of the belles of the sixties” offers an essay on the attitudes and culture of Dixie.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1928, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

THE CONFEDERATE NAVAL CADETS AND THE CONFEDERATE TREASURE: THE DIARY OF MIDSHIPMAN ROBERT H. FLEMING

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Monterey VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:C.S.S. Patrick Henry, milt:Confederate States Naval Academy, milt:midshipmen, pd:1966, su:confederate, su:education, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy.

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:narrative

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

The Old Capitol and its Inmates

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:prison, ts:memory

Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Trip to Richmond in 1863

“1863. East Tennessee to Richmond. The wife of Confederate officer imprisoned in the North describes her trip to the Confederate capital and her meeting with Jefferson Davis.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Greensville Tn, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Tennessee, loc:Virginia, pd:1908, su:child girl, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Occupation of Richmond, April 1865: The Memorandum of Events of Colonel Christopher Q. Tompkins

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Dover Coal Pits Va, loc:Goochland County Va, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Some Letters of William Dunlap Simpson 1860-1863

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Goldsboro NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Weldon NC, pd:1956, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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

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