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

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews of Sumter, South Carolina: Extending over a period of 97 years ... Together with reminiscences of the war of 1812, and the recent "unpleasantness" between the North and South.

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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.”

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Southland Stories

“Background of war stories.”

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Plantation Lessee Problems In 1864

“May 2, 1864. Lower Mississippi Valley. A professor at the University of Michigan was one of a group of investors attracted by the proposition of raising cotton on the occupied plantations along the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. This letter…

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Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 3

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Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 2

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A Prayer For The Spirit Of Acceptance: The Journal of Martha Wayles Robertson, 1860-66

“1860-1866. Robertson's diary often takes the form of a prayer, written as a spiritual exercise in self examination and communion with God. An early entry considered the threat of fratricide a national error, and she asked for God to reconcile the…

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William Parker Cutler's Congressional Diary Of 1862-63

WILLIAM PARKER CUTLER'S CONGRESSIONAL DIARY OF 1862-63 Allan G. Bogue William Parker Cutler's career in the first United States Congress of the Civil War appears at first glance to have been less than noteworthy. Elected as a Republican to the House…

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