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

We Left a Black Track in South Carolina: Letters of Corporal Eli S. Ricker, 1865

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With the Blockade Runners

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Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

“By an Iowa lady why served in Union hospitals useful for Southern life described-Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, and most other areas of the CSA "west".

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Up the St. John's River

“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”

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“Extract from the unpublished diary. April 6-16, 1861. Charleston, South Carolina. A detailed description of Charleston and the events relating to the beginning of the war, as recorded in the diary of the man credited with "firing the first shot."

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The Diary of Anna Hasell Thomas (July 1864 - May 1865)

“December 26, 1864-May 31, 1865. Charleston, South Carolina, and Vicinity. The proud but defeated port city as observed by a native Carolinian who had been living in New York City and came back to visit her home area. Mrs. Thomas traveled from New…

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