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

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

Raymond, Miss: In War Times

“1861-1865. Raymond, Mississippi. Memories of childhood war years in a small Mississippi town.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Raymond, loc:Raymond MS, pd:1911, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Stray Thoughts: The Civil-War Diary of Ethie M. Foute Eagleton, Part 2

Not DIG

"December 25, 1861 - December 31, 1867. Diary with brief entries, written carefully by the wife of East Tennessee Presbyterian minister."

Stray Thoughts: The Civil-War Diary of Ethie M. Foute Eagleton, Part 1

NOT DIG

"December 25, 1861 - December 31, 1867. Diary with brief entries, written carefully by the wife of East Tennessee Presbyterian minister."

Reminiscences of Indianola, Tex

“1861- 1865. Indianola, Texas. A former resident describes a small but active wartime port on the Gulf of Mexico.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Esperanza, loc:Fort Esperanza Tx, loc:Matagorda Bay TX, loc:Texas, pd:1903, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Refugeing in War Time

“Fall 1864-Spring 1865. North Georgia. An eight-year-old girl’s experiences as she and her family tried to flee from the Union Army and then came home to Dekalb County “to find ruin.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Gwinnett County Ga, milt:42nd Georgia Reiment, pd:1931, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Northern Woman in the Confederacy: From the Diary of Mrs. Eugene McLean

“Written at Washington, events November 1860 to April 1861.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:diary

Recollections of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson

“1861-1865. Virginia. A friend of the widow of the great confederate hero remembers 'the bright, attractive, the witty and charming Mrs. Jackson.” Anna Morrison Jackson, wife of Stonewall, as remembered by a niece—many of the recollections are from…

Tags: au:female, era:antebellum, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:correspondence