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

A Girl's Experience in the Siege of Vicksburg

“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

“May 1865. Florida. A recollection of the first days of peace, when “the air was full of rumors of defeat."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, loc:Carterville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

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

“War, slavery, and politics.”

“CSA General, of 6th Tennessee.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:McNairy County TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1882, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, 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

Tags: au:female, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Fauquier County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1983, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Antietam, loc:Shepherdstown WV, loc:West Virginia, pd:1886, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory