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

Recollections of John Safford Stoney, Confederate Surgeon

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Beaufort SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1959, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:autobiography

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“Memories of Richmond Bar, politics, and Civil War.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

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

Recollections of a Varied Career

“Massachusetts congressman's account of Roanoke Island and New Bern, pp. 51-76.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, milt: 25th Massacusetts Regimont, milt: 36th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1908, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Sketches of My Life in the South

“Account of the capture of Fort Sumter by the Union forces. Worked for CSA inside the fort, when taken. A slave in the Singleton family of South Carolina.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1879, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Seventy Years of an Active Life

“Printed for private circulation. Sterne was an Englishman who first came to Texas in 1852. He helped survey the first proposed rail line in Texas and had many adventures with Ben McCulloch in 1856- 1857. During the Civil War, he served as a Union…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1912, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, ts:autobiography