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

Shelby's Expeditions into Mexico

Tags: era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Corsicana TX, loc:Mexico, loc:Texas, pd:1893, su:travel

Six decades in Texas; or, Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, governor of Texas in wartime, 1861-63. A Personal Experience in Business, War, and Politics.

“Discussion of war-times in Texas.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1900, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Some Reactions of Union Soldiers Stationed in the South during the Civil War

Tags: au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Brazos Santiago TX, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Minneapolis MN, loc:Minnesota, loc:Texas, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:war experience

Texas Memoirs of Amelia E. Barr

“1857-1867. Austin, Texas. This item is a truly delightful account of the Texas years of the prolific late-nineteenth-century novelist in Austin. By her daughter Lillie Barr Munroe, and includes some very informative views of the war years in the…

Tags: au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory

The Civil War Memoirs of Samuel Alonza Cooke

The Diary of Thomas H. DuVal: The Civil War in Austin, Texas, February 26 to October 9, 1863

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, pd:1991, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:unionist, ts:diary

The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days

“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1900, su:battlefield, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative