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

Tares Among the Wheat

“1861-1865. Louisiana and Port Anderson, Mississippi? A group of war stories - sad and happy.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Hudson LA, pd:1928, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Southland Stories

“Background of war stories.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:piedmont region VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:enslaved, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Seventy years in Dixie: Recollections and Sayings of T.W. Caskey and Others

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1893, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, ts:narrative

Secession, Coercion, and Civil War: The Story of 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Maryland, loc:Virginia, pd:1861, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

Searching for the American Dream in Arkansas: Letters of a Pioneer Family

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Pine Bluff Ar, loc:Prairie County Ar, pd:1979, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels

“An account of the Civil War-era "doings and misdoing in the barefooted period of a boy's life on a southern plantation" in the South Carolina Sea Islands.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Edisto Island SC, loc:Middle Country SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography