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

Women of the Sixties

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1919, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

Brigadier Surgeon John W. Trader's Recollections of the Civil War in Missouri

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Reign of Terror in Tennessee

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Gallatin TN, loc:Sumner County TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1886, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Fall of Richmond

“Reprinted from Richmond Dispatch, February 3, 1902.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1901, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Other Days

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Chunnenuggee Ridge Plantation AL, loc:Union Springs AL, pd:1943, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Fall of Richmond

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

Southern Silhouettes

“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, pd:1887, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

War Times in Natchez

“1861-1865. Natchez, Mississippi. A lady recalls the years of the conflict in "Grand, exclusive, heroic Natchez.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Natchez MS, pd:1902, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Punta Rassa FL, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:Native American, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Missouri Boy’s Experiences

“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being exchanged as a prisoner of war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:memory

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