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

CIVIL WAR LETTERS

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Crittenden County Ky, loc:Kentucky, pd:1974, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Conditions Just After the War

“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate surrender”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, pd:1931, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

CARL SCHURZ'S LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1951, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter, 1826-1876

Hunter was a prominent Virginia states’ rights Democrat, US Senator, 1847-1861.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:slavery, ts:correspondence

Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cherokee County NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1992, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Civil War Letters of Sam Houston

“October 7, 1862-April 21, 1863. Huntsville, Texas. Three letters to the editor of the Nacogdoches Chronicle reveal ex-Governor Samuel Houston s criticism of President Jefferson Davis and leading generals and his despondency over the declining…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Cedar Point Tx, loc:Huntsville Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1978, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence