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

The Journal of Eldress Nancy, Kept at the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Colony, August 15, 1861-September 4, 1864

“Shaker colony of South Union, KY; civilian account of war kept by Eldress Nancy Moore.”

“August 15, 1861-September 4, 1864. Recorded that men loyal to the Union were fleeing Kentucky to avoid conscription into Confederate service. When…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:South Union Ky, loc:South Union Shaker Village Ky, pd:1963, su:abolitionist, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Good Samaritan at Franklin

“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former soldier describes the “devoted and unselfish service to the sick and wounded” by Mrs. John McGavock.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1922, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

A Night of Adventure

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lynchburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1884, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tom Burton; or, The days of '61.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:child boy, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:local history, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory