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

Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

When Missouri Went into the War

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Reconstruction in Yazoo County

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Yazoo County in the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, milt:18th Regiment Virginia Infantry CSA, pd:1907, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:autobiography

Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Albemarle County Nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1957, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:diary