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

A Private Chapter of the War.

“A gripping account of Bailey's adventures behind Confederate lines in Georgia in 1864.”

Tags: era:1860s, era:1880, milt:6th infantry connecticut volunteers army of the potomac, su:army of the potomac, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:autobiography, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Gentleman of the South: A Memory of the Black Belt From the Manuscript Memoirs of the Late Colonel Stanton Elmore

Tags: he:Battle of Bull Run, he:Battle of Gettysburg, loc:Alabama, loc:black belt, loc:Egypt, loc:London, pd:1903, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory

A Book of Memories, 1842-1920

“CSA and Alabama material.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Alabama, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:religion, su:southern, su:travel, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer

“1861-1865. The reminiscences of a young woman, unidentified, ‘in her own words.’ A Virginia girl and the ‘Romance of War’ - Harold Straubig’s Civil War eyewitness.”

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Norfolk VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

A Midnight Raid and a Leap in the Dark

Tags: au:female, era:1863, loc:Harper Ferry WV, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, loc:West Virginia, su:civilian, su:female experience, ts:memory

And a Little Child Shall Lead Them

“1863. Near Chattanooga, Tennessee. A Union veteran tells a poignant tale about a ‘little child toddling toward our lines’ and both armies forgetting the battle for a moment.”

Tags: era:1860s, milt:1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, su:battlefield, su:Child Experience, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory