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

Memories of Three Score Years and Ten

“Served in the Amelia Minute Men, afterward known as Co. H, 44th VA Vols. during war Presbyterian minister.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Baltimore MD, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Farmville VA, loc:Lynchburg VA, milt:44th Virginia Infantry Regiment, pd:1908, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:biography

A Southern Woman's Bravery

“1863. Vicksburg to Brandon, Mississippi. A confederate veteran recalls how a brave woman—assisted by a Union captain from Wisconsin—save her family’s treasures from Yankee plunderers.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Brandon MS, loc:Mississippi, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Evacuation of Richmond

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

When Missouri Went into the War

“1861. Missouri. A former lawyer in Boonville, Missouri, remembers the beginning of wartime struggles in his state.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Boonville MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond: Early Recollections; Vivid Portrayal of Amusing Scenes

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:gates county nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:suffolk va, loc:the dismal swamp, loc:Virginia, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:travel, ts:narrative

Reconstruction in Yazoo County

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Yazoo County in the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Wisconsin Soldier Reports from New Orleans

Some Neglected Aspects of the American Civil War: Recollections of John C. Wade

“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Williamsburg, he:Seven Days Battle, loc:Harrison's Landing Va, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Yorktown Va, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

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