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

In War Time: Two Years in the Confederacy and Two Years North

“Reminiscences concerning Confederate and Virginia wartime politics.”

Tags: era:1850s, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1887, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lynchburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

"References to Stonewall Jackson and other Civil War materials."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1887, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

“Written at Washington, events November 1860 to April 1861.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1964, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:political

“April 2, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A brief recollection of the capture of the Confederate capital.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory