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

Recollections of the Civil War

“As an 8-year-old, the author traveled with her mother to Corinth, MS, shortly after the 1862 battle there, to be near her ailing father.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, pd:1901, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Recollections of War as a Child, 1861-65

“1863-1864. Knoxville, Tennessee. A lady recalls the siege and occupation of her city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Knoxville Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1928, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Refugees of 1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Refugees of 1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Refugeing in War Time

“Fall 1864-Spring 1865. North Georgia. An eight-year-old girl’s experiences as she and her family tried to flee from the Union Army and then came home to Dekalb County “to find ruin.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Gwinnett County Ga, milt:42nd Georgia Reiment, pd:1931, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Reminiscences of the Civil War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:buena vista fl, loc:Florida, loc:lake buena vista fl, pd:1958, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:non-slaveholding white, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Reminiscences of the Late Lon Slaughter as Told to Mrs, E. D. Wall, September 3, 1920

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Phillips County Ar, loc:Spring Creek Ar, pd:1949, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels

“An account of the Civil War-era "doings and misdoing in the barefooted period of a boy's life on a southern plantation" in the South Carolina Sea Islands.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Edisto Island SC, loc:Middle Country SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography