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

Some Memories of My Life

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1908, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Some Observations of the Years 1860 and 1861 as Revealed by a Packet of Old Letters

“Wartime letters among sisters from Wilmington, N.C., Eufaula, Alabama, and Georgia.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Clayton Al, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1931, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade

“While this recollection by a truly distinguished citizen of Wilmington concentrates on the blockade activities, it includes much material on the city itself.”

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Tales of the Cape Fear Blockade, Being a Turn of the Century Account of Blockade Running

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

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 Autobiography of Brantley York

“Vol. 1. Volume 1 is the only one published; it includes four chapters on the Civil War; scarce hardback issue.”

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The Civil War in Chowan County, North Carolina

“1861-1865. Chowan County, North Carolina. This brief account by a doctor whose estate was Union headquarters in the area for two years describes the naval battles in Albemarle Sound, cavalry raids, and the difficulties which he and his neighbors in…

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