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

Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828-1874. Reprinted from the Jeffersonian Republican

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“1861- 1862. A Presbyterian minister notes the first months of sectional conflict.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Donelson LA, loc:Louisiana, pd:1919, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

“June-December 1861. Missouri. A recollection of the deep divisions of loyalty in a key border state.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: loc:Washington D.C., su:abraham lincoln, su:camp hospital, su:medical, su:religion

“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Batesville Ar, milt:Arkansas Mounted Infantry, pd:1955, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:union, su:unionist, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Company E First Missouri Volunteers Cavalry CSA, milt:First Missouri Volunteers CSA, pd:1956, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

“1862- 1863. Mississippi and Mobile. A Confederate chaplain’s experiences near the frontlines of battle and a trip to Mobile.”

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“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, loc:Texas, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence