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

The Second Day of the War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Fort Sumter, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1886, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

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

The Trials of our Women in the War

“October 1862, August 1863. Missouri. Recollections of home font woes of Confederates in Missouri.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

The Occupation of Jacksonville, February 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, U.S.A.

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Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Tennessee Valley from 1862 to 1865

“1862-1865. North Alabama. A brief summary of war years in the counties near the Tennessee River in north Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:fayette county, loc:Georgia, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

The Story of a Soldier’s Life

“Experiences on a visit to CSA Army in 1862.”

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1903, su:British, su:foreign, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Recent Past From a Southern Standpoint. Reminiscences of a Grandfather by Richard H. Wilmer, Bishop of Alabama

“Unreconstructed Rebel after War, when Pres. Johnson had to set an order aside after his and clergy's suspension.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1887, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, ts:narrative

Three Hundred Miles in a Wagon

“Summer of 1865. Central Alabama to Franklin, Tennessee. A former Confederate refugee from the Union occupation carefully remembers her long wagon trip back home a few weeks after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1908, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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