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

My Return from Dixie

“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home to Middle Tennessee soon after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Macon MS, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, pd:1906, su:African American, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Faithful Negroes Who Were Slaves

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Dale County Al, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative

“Just after the end of the war in Mississippi, this work gives a clear view of the defeated South and the conditions on the home front in 1865.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, pd:1884, pd:1888, su:African American, su:daily life, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory

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My Return from Dixie

Faithful Negroes Who Were Slaves

Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative