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

The Capture of Lexington

“1861. Lexington, Missouri. An eyewitness account of the action at a key Missouri River town early in the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Lexington, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, he:Battle of Chaplin Hills, he:Battle of Perryville, loc:Kentucky, loc:Perrtvill Ky, pd:1962, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Mississippi, loc:Shiloh MS, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Cape Fear River, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, ts:narrative

“1865. Mobile to New Orleans to Louisville. A former CSA soldier recalls the last weeks of the war and his return home to Kentucky.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Tuscaloosa, loc:Georgia, loc:Tuscaloosa AL, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Seneca County Oh, loc:Tennessee, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1975, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Seneca County Oh, loc:Tennessee, milt:101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1975, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront

“1861-1865. "Eloquent Tribute" in 1904 by war time observer to valiant women.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1906, su:camp life, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tags: au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Brazos Santiago TX, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Minneapolis MN, loc:Minnesota, loc:Texas, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:war experience