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

What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of Gen. Lee

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cumberland Valley VA, loc:Elizabethtown VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“1863-1864. Clarke County, Virginia. A contemporary letter describes life in the Shenandoah Valley in the midst of Yankee raids.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, loc:Clarke County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1880, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

“Much CSA-Missouri and Arkansas, port of J. Davis”.

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Missouri, pd:1896, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, su:homefront, su:religion, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

“Postwar letters recall Thompson's wartime activities especially as a CSA agent in Europe.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:North Carolina, pd:1940, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Wilmington, he:Seige of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1886, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Fernandina Fl, loc:Florida, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1860, era:antebellum, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Oak Grove Plantation AL, pd:1976, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:Oak Grove Plantation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Clarke County Al, loc:Grove HIll AL, pd:1958, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

“A brief statement about the destruction of South Carolina capital.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Burning of Columbia SC, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Columbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative