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

A SKETCH OF THE EARLY LIFE AND SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF DR. JOHN A. LEWIS OF GEORGETOWN, KY.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, milt:2nd Kentucky Cavalry CSA, pd:1977, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

THE BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE, OCTOBER 8, 1862 AS DESCRIBED IN THE DIARY OF CAPTAIN ROBERT B. TAYLOR

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

Eneas Africanus

“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, loc:Texas, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence

As I Saw It

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Seven Decades of the Union: the Humanities and Materialism

“1861-January 18, 1862. Virginia. The last two chapters of this proud Virginian's reminiscences describe his state's role in the creation of the CSA.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1872, su:economics, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:political, ts:narrative

Extracts from the Memoirs of William Franklin Avera

A Virginia Boy in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Seven Days Battle, loc:Hanover County VA, loc:Mechanicsville Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

The University of Virginia, October, 1860, to April, 1861

“October 1860-April 1861. Charlottesville, Virginia. A freshman at “The University” during the secession winter describes the events on ‘The Grounds.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:education, su:homefront, su:military, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Letters of a Teenage Confederate

Tags: 1st Regiment Alabama Volunteers, au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Barrancas Barracks Fl, loc:Florida, loc:Warrenton Fl, milt:1st Regiment Alabama Volunteers, milt:Perote Guards, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, ts:correspondence

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