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

A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers

“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Woman's Memories of the Sixties, Some Interesting Letters not Heretofore Published

“1861-1865. Texas to Kentucky. The recollections of Texas wife who tried to follow her husband toward the war front, where he died.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, he:battle of new orleans, milt:terry's texas rangers, pd:1893, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Boy's Impressions of the Battle of Franklin

"November 1864. Franklin, Tennessee. The battle in Middle Tennessee as seen by a youngster.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

An Arkansas Lady in the Civil War: Reminiscences of Susan Fletcher

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Love-Sick Volunteer

“Summer of 1861. Place not stated. A story of romance early in the war.”

Tags: era:1861, pd:1893, su:war experience, su:warfront

As I Saw It

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Young Girl in the Missouri Border War

“Sympathy with CSA, members of a family in the CSA army.”

An Incident

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Marion Al, pd:1885, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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