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

Southland Stories

“Background of war stories.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:piedmont region VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

SUE MUNDY: "An Account of the Terrible Kentucky Guerrilla of Civil War Times"

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Suffering in Fredericksburg: Refugees Returned After Battle to Find Chaos in Old City

“Early in 1863. Fredericksburg, Virginia. A description of destruction in the Virginia river town.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fredericksburg, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Surrender and Homeward Bound

“1865. Mobile to New Orleans to Louisville. A former CSA soldier recalls the last weeks of the war and his return home to Kentucky.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Tuscaloosa, loc:Georgia, loc:Tuscaloosa AL, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade

“While this recollection by a truly distinguished citizen of Wilmington concentrates on the blockade activities, it includes much material on the city itself.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Seige of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1902, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tares Among the Wheat

“1861-1865. Louisiana and Port Anderson, Mississippi? A group of war stories - sad and happy.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Hudson LA, pd:1928, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Texas Memoirs of Amelia E. Barr

“1857-1867. Austin, Texas. This item is a truly delightful account of the Texas years of the prolific late-nineteenth-century novelist in Austin. By her daughter Lillie Barr Munroe, and includes some very informative views of the war years in the…

Tags: au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory