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

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

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

The University of North Carolina

"1861-1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A personal reflection of events in Chapel Hill and at UNC during the war."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1930, su:civilian, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1908, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

The Wartime Experiences of Margaret McCalla: Confederate Refugee from East Tennessee

“1861-1864. Letters. Relates her departure from east Tennessee for Chester District, SC, only one day before the Union troops arrived. McCalla describes her efforts to care for her children (one son died, and another was born) and to raise crops on…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Morristown Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Westover Journal of John A. Selden, Esqr

“The personal journal of the owner of the great James River plantation, which clearly reflects the effects of the war on his personal life and fortune.”