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

A.B. Moore Correspondence Relating to Secession

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1961, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, ts:correspondence

A War Time Foundry

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Rome AL, pd:1956, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Republic Within the Confederacy and Other Recollections of 1864

“A Union lieutenant from Iowa recalls events behind the lines in occupied north Alabama and Mississippi.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Athens AL, loc:Mississippi, loc:Pulaski TN, milt:110th Colored Infantry, pd:1914, su:African American, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Patriotic Confederate Woman's War Diary, 1862-1863

“1862-1863. From Perote, Alabama, Mrs. Crossley wrote on such topics as her slaves, conscription, and sewing for Confederate soldiers.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Perote AL, pd:1958, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Night of Terror

“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Memorable Night

“Spring 1863. Near Florence, Alabama. A lady recalls how Yankee raiders “plundered through our double parlors” in Union General Wilson’s raid.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Florence Al, pd:1932, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative