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

Nassau and the Blockade Runners

Tags: au:confederate, era:Civil War, loc:Nassau Bahamas, pd:1914, su:blockade, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Capture of Jefferson Davis

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc: Irwinville GA, loc:Abbeville SC, loc:Georgia, loc:South Carolina, pd:1966, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:political, ts:memory

The Confederate Reveille: Memorial Edition

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1898, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:political, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb

“A valuable resource for the years immediately preceding, during, and following the Civil War.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1913, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin

“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated South by two key Confederates.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Cuba, loc:Richmond VA, pd:1910, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

Autobiographical Notes, Letters and, Reflections

“For 40 years minister 2nd Presbyterian Church, Charleston, SC. Relates to secession and the war. 1860- 1865, 547-675 pp. Smith genealogy, 743-751 pp.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Fort Sumter SC, pd:1914, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Papers of Thomas Ruffin

“Vol. 3, covers the Confederacy. Ruffin supported secession and served as a CSA Commissioner from North Carolina.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:offical documents

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence