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

Governor Letcher's Candid Correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1964, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Governor Milton and His Family. A Contemporary Picture of Life in Florida during the War

“An extract from her "Life in the South, etc."

Tags: au:english, au:female, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:observer, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Grandfather's tales of North Carolina history.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:confederate, su:local history, su:southern, ts:narrative

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

He Taught Near Eudora, Arkansas, in the Early Sixties

“Secondary article about Milan W. Seri, a young teacher from Wisconsin, who came to Arkansas in 1860, includes long portions of Seri's journal.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1860, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Eudora Ar, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1959, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:narrative

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory