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

A Republic Within the Confederacy and Other Recollections of 1864

“A Union lieutenant from Iowa recalls events behind the lines in occupied north Alabama and Mississippi.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Athens AL, loc:Mississippi, loc:Pulaski TN, milt:110th Colored Infantry, pd:1914, su:African American, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

“April 1865. Central North Carolina. An eyewitness recalls some of the details about the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s troops.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

“December 25, 1861. Northern Virginia. The first Yuletide day of the war at Stuart's Cavern.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:First Battle of Bull Run, loc: ‎Fairfax County‎ VA, loc:Virginia, milt:1st Virginia Cavalry, pd:1883, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Spring, 1862. Near Memphis, Tennessee. A lady recalls her experiences as the Union troops arrived in the area of her country home east of Memphis.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1896, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Smithville N.C., loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1905, su:confederate, su:economics, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1899, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

“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

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1923, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:northern, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative