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

Missouri Girl's Prison Experiences

“August 1864. Central Missouri. A young woman from Boonville, Missouri describes her travels after being arrested by Union officers.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:prison, ts:memory

“1863. East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. A wartime lad remembers the war in his once quiet and lovely area.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:East Feliciana County LA, pd:1899, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:religion, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:postwar, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:memory

“1861-1865. General. A Confederate recalled “the character and virtues of the Negroes before and during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1926, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Often poignant contemporary views of the war's effects among recent German immigrants in the hill country north of Fort Smith.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1947, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

“1865. Missouri. A personal summary of the strongly divided sentiments in the Border State - just after the end of battlefield conflicts.”

Tags: era:1869, era:postwar, he:General Order No. 11, loc:Boone County NC, loc:booneville MO, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Mexico, loc:Missouri, su:slavery, ts:memory

Civil War and Reconstruction.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Unknown date. “Rural” South Carolina. A Cheering recollection about the generosity of Southern women to their defenders.”

Tags: au:female, era:Civil War, loc:greenwood s.c., loc:South Carolina, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, pd:1929, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:memory