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

A Borderland Confederate.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Jefferson County WV, loc:West Virginia, pd:1962, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:narrative

Arabella Lanktree Wilson's Civil War Letter

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, loc:Pine Bluff Ar, pd:1988, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Bluecoat's Account of the Camden Expedition

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, pd:1965, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Wayside Hospital

“1863-1865. High Point, North Carolina. A lady recalls local efforts to assist wounded soldiers at a hospital located in a converted hotel.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:High Point NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wayside Hospital NC, pd:1908, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, ts:memory

A Memorable Night

“Spring 1863. Near Florence, Alabama. A lady recalls how Yankee raiders “plundered through our double parlors” in Union General Wilson’s raid.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Florence Al, pd:1932, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson

“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Tennessee, loc:Virginia, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1960, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Southern Home in War Times

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1914, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Doctor's Experiences in Three Continents

“Author served as Surgeon General of North Carolina; useful for information on Governor Vance's administration.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1885, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:medical, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A War Time Derelict in Bermuda

Tags: era:1862, era:1863, era:1868, era:Civil War, loc:bermuda, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1893, su:seccession, ts:article

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