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

Reminiscences of the War, Part 1

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Dover TN, loc:Fort Donelson TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1885, pd:1964, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“Fall of 1864. Near Irvington, Georgia. The daughter of a Georgia farmer narrates her memories of Sherman's army coming through their lands.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Irwinton Ga, pd:1907, su:child girl, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

“Unknown time. South Alabama. A memory of the many Confederate who fled the area of battles, hoping to escape “the pangs of war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1922, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Fall of 1864. Cassville, Georgia. A young woman’s recollections of the awesome Yankee assault.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Cass County Ga, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, loc:Van Burn County Ar, pd:1958, su:Arkansas Peace Society, su:civilian, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Batesville Ar, milt:Arkansas Mounted Infantry, pd:1955, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:union, su:unionist, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Van Buren Ar, milt:7th Regiment Cavalry MIssouri Volunteers, milt:Black Hawk Cavalry, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:diary

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Pickens Fl, loc:Key West FL, loc:Pensacola FL, su:blockade, su:civilian, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“Based on boyhood experiences of Page and his brother Roswell.”