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

Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

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Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

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A Southern Home in War Times

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The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews of Sumter, South Carolina: Extending over a period of 97 years ... Together with reminiscences of the war of 1812, and the recent "unpleasantness" between the North and South.

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Yazoo County in the Civil War

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Reconstruction in Yazoo County

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Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

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LOUISIANA BURGE: THE DAIRY OF A CONFEDERATE COLLEGE GIRL

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"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862

December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”

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My Lady of the South: A Story of the Civil War

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