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

THE CAMPAIGN FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA AS SEEN BY A FEDERAL SOLDIER

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Chattanooga, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1941, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Civil War in Chowan County, North Carolina

“1861-1865. Chowan County, North Carolina. This brief account by a doctor whose estate was Union headquarters in the area for two years describes the naval battles in Albemarle Sound, cavalry raids, and the difficulties which he and his neighbors in…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chowan County NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Chapel Hill at the Close of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

ANOTHER LETTER FROM "THE REBEL LAWYER" MONTFORT

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Butler Ga, loc:Fort Pulaski Ga, milt:25th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment, pd:1968, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Memories of Three Score Years and Ten

“Served in the Amelia Minute Men, afterward known as Co. H, 44th VA Vols. during war Presbyterian minister.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Baltimore MD, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Farmville VA, loc:Lynchburg VA, milt:44th Virginia Infantry Regiment, pd:1908, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:biography

A Southern Woman's Bravery

“1863. Vicksburg to Brandon, Mississippi. A confederate veteran recalls how a brave woman—assisted by a Union captain from Wisconsin—save her family’s treasures from Yankee plunderers.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Brandon MS, loc:Mississippi, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Recollections of Harriet du Bose Kershaw Lang, Part 2

Tags: era:1861-1865, era:postwar, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc: Columbia sc, loc:Hard scramble va, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:slaveholding, su:war experience

When Missouri Went into the War

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

Yazoo County in the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Albemarle County Nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1957, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:diary

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