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

WITH SHERMAN THROUGH GEORGIA AND THE CAROLINAS: LETTERS OF A FEDERAL SOLDIER. Part II

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:North Carolina, loc:South Carolina, pd:1948, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

RECONSTRUCTION LETTERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA: PART IX: LETTERS TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BUTLER

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Beaufort NC, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:Fort Fisher NC, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Roanoke Island NC, pd:1942, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern

The Civil War Diary of Louisa Brown Pearl

"September 1, 1861-March 22, 1862. Nashville. The Pearl family, who had migrated to Nashville from the North in the mid-1850s, was split by sectional antagonisms. In 1861 Mr. Pearl took the daughters to Detroit. John, the son, joined the 1st…

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:C Company First Tennessee Infantry, milt:Field's Infantry, pd:1979, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:diary

Sketches of My Life in the South

“Account of the capture of Fort Sumter by the Union forces. Worked for CSA inside the fort, when taken. A slave in the Singleton family of South Carolina.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1879, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:autobiography