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

A Girl's Experience in the Siege of Vicksburg

“Personal reminiscence of the siege.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Daring Molly Tynes

“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to Wytheville, Virginia to warn the residents of a Yankee advance.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Wytheville VA, pd:1930, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia

“From an old manuscript of a country place in Maryland.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:correspondence

A CONFEDERATE VIEW OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY, 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:southern Kentucky, milt:Company B 14th Mississippi Regiment, milt:Mississippi Enterprise Guards, pd:1972, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Some Reactions of Union Soldiers Stationed in the South during the Civil War

Tags: au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Brazos Santiago TX, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Minneapolis MN, loc:Minnesota, loc:Texas, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:war experience

Goldie's Inheritance: A Story of the Siege of Atlanta

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

History of the Civil War in America

Tags: au:French, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1875, su:foreign, su:France, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Heroine of Fort Fisher

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Fisher, loc:Fort Fisher NC, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1929, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Seventy Years of an Active Life

“Printed for private circulation. Sterne was an Englishman who first came to Texas in 1852. He helped survey the first proposed rail line in Texas and had many adventures with Ben McCulloch in 1856- 1857. During the Civil War, he served as a Union…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1912, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, ts:autobiography

The Civil War Diary of Rufus J. Woolwine

“June 1, 1861-June 7, 1865. Primarily in June. The diary of a young soldier from Patrick County, Virginia, this material includes valuable descriptions of life in the author's home state and the South in defeat.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Donelson Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Virginia, milt:51st Regiment Virginia Infantry, milt:Company C 51st Regiment Virginia Infantry, pd:1963, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:diary

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