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

A Christmas Story

Tags: au:male, era:1861, era:1862, loc:Dutch Mills Ar, loc:Hermannsburg Ar, loc:Washington County Ar, pd:1950, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:slavery, ts:memory

A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1904, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Florida Soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Hosford Letters

ANTE-BELLUM AND WAR MEMORIES OF MRS. TELFAIR HODGSON

“Wartime memories from a plantation near Savannah.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Chatham County GA, loc:Colerain Plantation, loc:Georgia, loc:Tweedside Plantation, pd:1943, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri "Bushwhacker," Being His Complete Confession

“A fascinating account of guerrilla warfare in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas during the Civil War. Hildebrand was a Southern partisan who claimed he only took to the field after several relatives were murdered by Federals. He conducted a…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Arkansas, loc:Green County Ak, loc:Missouri, milt:Bushwhacking Departmen, pd:1870, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fairfax Va, loc:Virginia, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

“1861-1865. Near Eufaula, Alabama. Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South, life on a plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1888, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer

“1861-1865. The reminiscences of a young woman, unidentified, ‘in her own words.’ A Virginia girl and the ‘Romance of War’ - Harold Straubig’s Civil War eyewitness.”

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Norfolk VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

A Letter from Occupied Tallahassee

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:The Battle of Natural Bridge, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Confederate Girl's Diary

"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

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