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

Pay the Preacher! Two Letters from Louisiana, 1864

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Pensacola in the War for Southern Independence

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Personal Experiences with Robert Toombs

“Winter 1865. Georgia. A recollection of a key Georgia leader n the last months of the war.”

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Plantation Life in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”

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Personne Goes to Georgia: Five Civil War Letters

“March 1-18, 1862. "Personne," a correspondent for the Charleston DAILY COURIER, wrote that Savannans felt that their fortifications were strong enough to repel an anticipated Union attack and that normal social life had resumed. He praised…

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