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

Extracts from War-Time Letters, 1861-1864

“November 12, 1861-June 16, 1865. Westport, Missouri. Six letters from a young woman to her mother which describes the severe effects of the war on the western border.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Jackson County MO, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1928, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Eyewitness: Or, Life Scenes in the Old North State, Depicting the Trials and Sufferings of the Unionists During the Rebellion

“The preface states the work is true and was written in the South "more than two years ago."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1865, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Faithful Negroes Who Were Slaves

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Dale County Al, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Faithful Slave, Col. Robert

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

Fall of Richmond

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1885

“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former resident of the CSA capital describes the awesome events of the fall of the city.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

FANNY COHEN'S JOURNAL OF SHERMAN'S OCCUPATION OF SAVANNAH

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1957, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

Federals "Sweep the Coast": An Expedition into St. Charles Parish, August 1862

Felix G. DeFontiane

Tags: au:southern, era:postwar, pd:1897, su:confederate, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative

Fifty Years on the Road the Autobiography of a Traveling Salesman

“Interesting chapters on "On the road during Civil War," "In War-tom Missouri," "Road incidents in the South and West."

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Missouri, pd:1911, su:economics, su:travel, su:war experience

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