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

Autobiography of an Octogenarian

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, milt:18th Regiment Virginia Infantry CSA, pd:1907, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:autobiography

Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Albemarle County Nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1957, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Civil War Letters of Robert Tarleton

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Fort Morgan AL, pd:1970, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Devotion of Southern Women to the Confederacy

“1861-1865. North and South Carolina. A confederate veteran offers praise to the “noble, patriots, and loyal women” of the south and describes some of the work.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1927, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Sherman's Trail Through South Carolina

“May 1865. South Carolina. The trail of destruction across South Carolina described by an ex-Confederate soldier, immediately after the end of combat.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:South Carolina, loc:Winnsboro SC, pd:1927, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory