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

Extracts from the Schirmer Diary, 1861, Part 4

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Extracts from the Schirmer Diary, 1861, Part 3

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1860, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Sumter SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:seccession, ts:diary

Sketches of My Life in the South

“Account of the capture of Fort Sumter by the Union forces. Worked for CSA inside the fort, when taken. A slave in the Singleton family of South Carolina.”

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The Civil War Diary of Louisa Brown Pearl

"September 1, 1861-March 22, 1862. Nashville. The Pearl family, who had migrated to Nashville from the North in the mid-1850s, was split by sectional antagonisms. In 1861 Mr. Pearl took the daughters to Detroit. John, the son, joined the 1st…

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