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

Echoes from the Battlefield; Or, Southern Life During the War

“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory

Fall of Richmond

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

Flower de Hundred: The Story of a Virginia Plantation

“Life before and during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, loc:Virginia, pd:1890, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Life in the Sixties (1860)

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Pine Bluff TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

LOUISIANA BURGE: THE DAIRY OF A CONFEDERATE COLLEGE GIRL

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Burge Plantation GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Newton County Ga, pd:1952, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

MEMOIRS OF A MILLEDGEVILLE NATIVE, AUGUSTIN H. HANSELL

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Georgia, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Memorials of a Southern Planter

“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Burleigh Plantation MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Raymond MS, pd:1887, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Memories Grave and Gay

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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