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

Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War

“Recollections of Confederate Postmaster General.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1906, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Clover Hill Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Georgia, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“February 1861. Vicksburg, Mississippi. A former telegrapher remembers the notification to Jefferson Davis of his election as President.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1905, su:confederate, su:military, su:plantation, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“Recollections of Savannah during the war.”

Tags: au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1932, su:civilian, su:economics, su:observer, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Pensacola FL, pd:1959, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative, ts:offical documents

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, pd:1884, su:confederate, su:local history, su:plantation, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:biography, ts:narrative

“Life in South Carolina, principally in Columbia and Lexington, limited material on war years.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Lexington SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

Tags: au:confederate, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Meigs County tn, loc:Rhea County tn, loc:Tennessee, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:local history, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront