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

Business Travel out of Texas during the Civil War: The Travel Diary of S. B. Brush, Pioneer Austin Merchant

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc: Brownsville tx, loc:rio grande, loc:Texas, pd:1992, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:travel, ts:diary

Civil War Letters of Sam Houston

“October 7, 1862-April 21, 1863. Huntsville, Texas. Three letters to the editor of the Nacogdoches Chronicle reveal ex-Governor Samuel Houston s criticism of President Jefferson Davis and leading generals and his despondency over the declining…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Cedar Point Tx, loc:Huntsville Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1978, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams

“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he witnessed Quantrill's Raid), and finally to Topeka.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas, loc:Lawrence KS, pd:1984, su:African American, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War

Tags: au:northern, era:1863, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:Army of the Potomac, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Courtesy in War

“Spring 1863. Holly Springs, Mississippi. A Confederate recalls mutual courtesy between General Grant and the owners of the house he was using as his temporary headquarters.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Holly Springs MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1931, su:camp life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory