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

Pay the Preacher! Two Letters from Louisiana, 1864

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Opelousas LA, loc:Opelousas District LA, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Pensacola's Exiled Government

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Florida, loc:Greenville Al, loc:Pensacola FL, pd:1961, su:confederate, su:occupation, su:political, ts:offical documents

Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove; or, Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas

“An account of life in and around Washington County, Arkansas, during the first years of the war, the author wrote as a Unionist surrounded by Confederates.”

Tags: era:1864, era:Civil War, he:battle of pea ridge, he:Battle of Prarie Grove, he:Battle of Wilson's Creek, loc:Arkansas, su:education, su:prison, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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

Religion in the Confederate Armies

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, milt:49th Tennessee Regiment of Infantry, milt:Army of Northern Virginia, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1913, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

Remainiscing in Lively Vein

“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”