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

Wartime Sciences on Pennsylvania Avenue

Tags: au:female, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Washington D.C., milt:Buck Tails, milt:New York Zouaves, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, ts:memory

“1861- 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A recollection of the Confederate Capital, especially women’s work in the hospitals.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:3rd Regiment Troops for Local Defnese, milt:Dahlgren's Raiders, pd:1928, su:Battle of Richmond, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Phillips County Ar, loc:Spring Creek Ar, pd:1949, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

“1864. Missouri. A Missouri Confederate recalls her daring and trying experiences to serve the CSA.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc: Kansas City MO, loc:Liberty Landing MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“From an old manuscript of a country place in Maryland.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:correspondence

“Personal reminiscence of the siege.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1929, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Rose Cottage Plantation VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1869, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Jacksonport Ar, pd:1950, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory