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

The Vinson Confederate Letters

“Wartime letters from Wayne County.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wayne County NC, milt: 10th State Troops, milt:Company F First North Carolina Artillery and Engineers Rigiments, pd:1948, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1862, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:union, ts:offical documents

The Siege of Vicksburg

“May-July 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. A young man’s memories of the siege and capture of the river port.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1929, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler

“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:civilian, su:economics, su:travel, ts:narrative