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

Civil War Letter from Paris, Texas, 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Paris TX, loc:Texas, milt:Confederate Indian Troop, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:Native American, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Bowling Green Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:Rock City Guards, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

“April 1865. Central North Carolina. An eyewitness recalls some of the details about the surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s troops.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

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

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1951, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, ts:narrative

“A former Confederate soldier describes his role in being assigned “to conscript the theater” for evaders of military duty in crowded Atlanta.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, milt:Company E 27th Mississippi Regiment, pd:1903, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

“1862-1865. Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. A former Confederate describes the difficult and disorganized conflict in the Ozarks.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Aldridge Plantation MS, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ar, pd:1921, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Garfield's Bottom Ky, loc:Harrison County Ky, loc:PikeVille Ky, loc:Prestonsburg Ky, milt:Mounted Infantry, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“July 24 - November 30, 1862. Arkansas. A Texas farm boy describes life near his Confederate Army post in central Arkansas in three letters.”

Tags: 10th Texas Infantry, 35th texas Cavalry, au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Austin Ar, loc:Texas, milt:23rd Brigade Washington County Dixie Blues, milt:Company A 10th Texas Infantry, milt:Company B Brown's Battalion 35th Texas Cavalry, milt:Dixie Blues Washington County, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, ts:correspondence