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

LOUISIANA BURGE: THE DAIRY OF A CONFEDERATE COLLEGE GIRL

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Burge Plantation GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Newton County Ga, pd:1952, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Steele, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:Company A 3rd Florida Infantry, milt:Jacksonville Light Infantry, pd:1974, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:warfront, ts:diary, ts:narrative

Tribute to Admiral Raphael Semmes

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1911, su:confederate, su:military, ts:biography

"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862

December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”

Tags: au:enslaved, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Harrison County TX, loc:Spring Hill TX, loc:Texas, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

My Lady of the South: A Story of the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War

Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"

“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:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Fort Mackinac Island MI, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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