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

The Story of a Soldier’s Life

“Experiences on a visit to CSA Army in 1862.”

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1903, su:British, su:foreign, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Tennessee Valley from 1862 to 1865

“1862-1865. North Alabama. A brief summary of war years in the counties near the Tennessee River in north Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:fayette county, loc:Georgia, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Occupation of Jacksonville, February 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, U.S.A.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt: 54th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1954, su:camp life, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Trials of our Women in the War

“October 1862, August 1863. Missouri. Recollections of home font woes of Confederates in Missouri.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

Three Civil War Letters

Tags: era:1861, era:1864, era:1865, loc:camp walker, loc:Tennessee, su:economics, su:medical, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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

The Second Day of the War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Fort Sumter, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1886, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Shelby Raid, 1863

“1863. Missouri. The effects of the daring raid by CSA General Jo Shelby into Missouri described by an eyewitness.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:The Shelby Raid, loc:Missouri, milt:27th Missouri Regiments, milt:5th Missouri Confederate Cavalry, milt:7th Missouri Regiments, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or, The Gulf-Department in '63

“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory

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