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

Some Recollections of George Caleb Bingham

“1861-1865. Missouri. General memories of the great Missouri artist, including his wartime activities.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Caddo Fencibles

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Shreveport LA, milt:16th Louisiana Volunteers, milt:Caddo Fencibles, milt:Companyc 16th Louisiana Volunteers, pd:1901, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Siege and Fall of Selma, Alabama

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Selma, loc:Selma Al, pd:1923, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Vivid War Experiences at Ripley, Miss

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:ripley MS, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Extinguishing the Lights: The Teche District

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Extinguishing the Lights: 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, pd:1978, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron’s Memories

“Life in old South, before, during, and after the Civil War in Louisiana, includes diary and family conversations.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cottage Hill Plantation, loc:East Feliciana La, loc:Jackson La, loc:Parish of East Feliciana La, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves

“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Somerset Va, loc:Stafford County Va, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

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

Illium in Flames

“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:South Carolina, pd:1928, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

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