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

What Happened to Me

“The delicately emotional reminiscences of Mrs. George E. Pickett, with a brief portion on the ante-bellum years, much on the Civil War in VA as it seemed to a Confederate hero’s wife and then the sadness of defeat and reconstruction.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1917, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

What Fort Fisher Meant to the Confederacy

What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of Gen. Lee

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cumberland Valley VA, loc:Elizabethtown VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

We Left a Black Track in South Carolina: Letters of Corporal Eli S. Ricker, 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Knoxville Il, loc:South Carolina, milt:102nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, milt:XX Corps Army of Georgia, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work: Letters from American Missionary Association Teachers in Florida, 1864-1874

Watch on the Chattahoochee: A Civil War Letter

“A brief letter home from the future congressman and governor of Georgia.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Chattahoochee GA, loc:Georgia, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1959, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

Wartime Sciences on Pennsylvania Avenue

Tags: au:female, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Washington D.C., milt:Buck Tails, milt:New York Zouaves, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, ts:memory

Wartime Scenes From Convent Windows: St. Cecilia, 1860 Through 1865

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1980, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:narrative

War-Time Sketches: Historical and Otherwise

“A compilation of papers by the woman who served as historian of the "Stonewall Jackson Chapter" of New Orleans, U.D.C., 1909-11. Mrs. George H. Tichenor, of New Orleans, was a significant contributor to this volume. She was a source for "The…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Battle of the Handkerchiefs, loc:Louisiana, su:camp life, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

War-Time Memories of the Southland

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Selma Al, loc:White's Landing Al, pd:1880, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:southern, ts:memory

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