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

Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

The Old Capitol and its Inmates

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:prison, ts:memory

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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“1861-1865. The fascinating eyewitness account of Carter Anderson, a railroad conductor for the Confederacy. Anderson ran trains for the Virginia Central Railroad during Union Cavalry raids and movements of General Lee and Jackson's troops around…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1990, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:Railroads, su:southern, ts:autobiography

The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy.

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:narrative

THE CONFEDERATE NAVAL CADETS AND THE CONFEDERATE TREASURE: THE DIARY OF MIDSHIPMAN ROBERT H. FLEMING

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Monterey VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:C.S.S. Patrick Henry, milt:Confederate States Naval Academy, milt:midshipmen, pd:1966, su:confederate, su:education, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

The Culture of the Old South

“1861-1865. General. “One of the belles of the sixties” offers an essay on the attitudes and culture of Dixie.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1928, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Last Days of the Confederate Treasury and What Became of its Specie

“April 2 - May 4, 1865. Richmond and Danville, Virginia, and Washington, Georgia. The last CSA Treasurer describes, in recollections written in 1882, the effort to take Confederate southward in April 1865.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Washington GA, su:confederate, su:economics, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

The End of an Era

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Woman Saved Richmond City: Thrilling Story of Dahlgren's Raid and Mrs. Seddons' Old Blackberry Wine

“March 1864. Richmond, Virginia. A memory of one woman’s valiant effort to save Confederate capital during a Union cavalry attack.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

When Richmond Was Evacuated

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A South Carolina soldier describes the “deafening, roaring flames of the burning city,” as the confederate capital was abandoned to Yankee invaders.”

Tags: au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1931, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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