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

My Childhood Recollections of the War

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“CSA General, of 6th Tennessee.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:McNairy County TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1882, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

“War, slavery, and politics.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Jacksonport Ar, pd:1950, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“April of 1865. Near Durham, North Carolina. An eyewitness account of the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s valiant troops.”

Tags: era:1863, era:1865, he:Appomattox, loc:Appomattox VA, loc:Newberry SC, loc:South Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:5th south carolina cavalry, pd:1920

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Rose Cottage Plantation VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1869, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, loc:Carterville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

“Before, during, and after War, on a Louisiana plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

“May 1865. Florida. A recollection of the first days of peace, when “the air was full of rumors of defeat."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory