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

"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War

Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams

“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he witnessed Quantrill's Raid), and finally to Topeka.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas, loc:Lawrence KS, pd:1984, su:African American, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Punta Rassa FL, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:Native American, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

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"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War

Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams

The Wedding at the Parker House