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

Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War, as Represented in Story, Anecdote, Adventure, and the Romance of Reality

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1896, su:battlefield, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Valkyria, or Chaplets of Mars

“Epic of a fallen South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1881, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Vicksburg During The Siege

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1878, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Wilson's Raid and Other Recital

When Richmond Was Evacuated

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A South Carolina soldier describes the “deafening, roaring flames of the burning city,” as the confederate capital was abandoned to Yankee invaders.”

Tags: au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Watch on the Chattahoochee: A Civil War Letter

“A brief letter home from the future congressman and governor of Georgia.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Chattahoochee GA, loc:Georgia, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1959, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

Wilmington and the Blockade Runners

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, su:confederate, su:military, ts:narrative

With the Blockade Runners

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, loc:South Carolina, milt:Vigilant Rifles, pd:1925, su:blockade, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:warfront, ts:narrative

War Spirit at the Virginia Military Institute

“Spring 1861. Lexington, Virginia. A former cadet proudly describes the deep Southern feelings at UMI as the war approached.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Virginia Military Institute, pd:1914, su:confederate, su:military, su:seccession, su:unionist, ts:memory

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

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Knoxville Il, loc:South Carolina, milt:102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, milt:XX Corps Army of Georgia, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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