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

When Richmond Was Evacuated

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A South Carolina soldier describes the “deafening, roaring flames of the burning city,” as the confederate capital was abandoned to Yankee invaders.”

Tags: au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Sketch of Major Ferguson

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1899, su:confederate, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:biography

A Confederate Surgeon's Story

“1861-1865. Lynchburg, Virginia. A former surgeon at Hospital No. 1 in Lynchburg, Virginia recalls the awful tragedies of the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:medical, su:war experience, ts:memory

Observations on Affairs in the South in the Spring of 1865 (as Given in a Letter to His Wife)

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Fauquier County VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A description of the full of the Confederate capital by a man “living on Church Hill in the city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

From the Diary of John R. Thompson

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:England, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1928, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:diary

The End of an Era

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1899, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:slavery, su:warfront, ts:memory

One Year of the War; Civil War Diary of John Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General, of the Confederate Army

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

INSIDE LIBBY AND OUT

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Libby Prison for Union Officers, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:1st Kentucky Regiment, milt:Company D 1st Kentucky Regiment, pd:1961, su:daily life, su:military, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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