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

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

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

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

Woman Saved Richmond City: Thrilling Story of Dahlgren's Raid and Mrs. Seddons' Old Blackberry Wine

“March 1864. Richmond, Virginia. A memory of one woman’s valiant effort to save Confederate capital during a Union cavalry attack.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Wilson's Raid and Other Recital

Virginians Face Reconstruction: Correspondence from the James Dorman Davidson Papers, 1865-1880

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

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

Virginia Heroine, Mrs. E.A. Obenchain

“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lynchburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

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

Browse Items (1207 total)