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

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

Religion and Reconstruction

“1865. Kentucky and Nashville. A former Confederate chaplain comments upon the first months of Union dominance in the defeated South.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Pennsylvania, loc:Pittsburgh PA, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, ts:narrative

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.”