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

Trinity College in War Times

“December 1862. Nashville to Richmond. A contemporary letter describes a railroad trip from Tennessee to Virginia.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Randolph County NC, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, ts:memory

Tribute to Admiral Raphael Semmes

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1911, su:confederate, su:military, ts:biography

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

Tom Burton; or, The days of '61.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:child boy, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, pd:1982, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

To Coosawhatchie in December 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort District SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Virginia, milt:Leake's Battery of Turner's Artillery, pd:1952, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Three Letters of William Henry Trescot to Howell Cobb, 1861

“January 14-February 3, 1861. Beaufort, South Carolina. Concerns South Carolinian Trescot's involvement in the secession crisis.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Barnwell Island SC, loc:Barnwell Island Plantation SC, loc:England, loc:South Carolina, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence