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

Tares Among the Wheat

“1861-1865. Louisiana and Port Anderson, Mississippi? A group of war stories - sad and happy.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Hudson LA, pd:1928, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Aftermath of Prairie Grove: Union Letters from Fayetteville

Tags: era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Prairie Grove, loc:Arkansas, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Prairie Grove AR, su:battlefield, su:medical, su:union, su:warfront, ts:narrative

THE CAMPAIGN FROM CHATTANOOGA TO ATLANTA AS SEEN BY A FEDERAL SOLDIER

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Chattanooga, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1941, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Battles of Big Hill and Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Big Hill, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Jackson County Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Richmond Ky, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The American Crisis: or, Pages from the Note-Book of a State Agent during the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:England, loc:North Carolina, pd:1867, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Battle of Fort Sumter as Seen from Morris Island

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Sumter, loc:Morris Island SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Alabama-Kearsarge Fight

Tags: au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Cherbourg, he:Battle off Cherbourg, loc:Alabama-Kearsarge, loc:Cherbourg France, pd:1894, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:observer, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Battle of Lexington

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Lexington, loc:Lafayette County MO, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, milt:Kneisley's Battery CAS, pd:1921, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:seccession, su:warfront, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“February 1865. Winnsboro, South Carolina. A lady notes that Union occupation officers would refuse to provide hungry civilians with food because they “hoisted that bastard rag instead of the legitimate flag."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:South Carolina, loc:Winnsboro SC, milt:15th Corps of Sherman's Army, pd:1918, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern

The Americans at Home: Pen & Ink Sketches of American Men, Manners and Institutions

“Journey through the South on war and its aftermath, talking to both Union and CSA leaders: Lee, Grant, Semmes, Beauregard, Maffitt, Vance & D.H. Hill. Two chapters on Stonewall Jackson when he was given the bloodstained coat Jackson wore when…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1870, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

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