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

CIVIL WAR LETTERS

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

“May 1865. Meridian, Mississippi. A soldier recalls the “heartrending condition of my father’s home when 1 reached it: in eastern Mississippi.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

“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:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

“Spring, 1862. Near Memphis, Tennessee. A lady recalls her experiences as the Union troops arrived in the area of her country home east of Memphis.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1896, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Cabarrus County NC, loc:Concord County NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Poplar Tent County NC, pd:1914, su:Child Experience, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:education, su:local history, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

“November 1860-January 1861. Montgomery. Alabama. A judge reviews the election events in 1860 and the secession debates in Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, pd:1922, su:confederate, su:political, su:travel, su:union, ts:narrative