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

Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama, for Thirty Years.

“Reminiscence in chronological form for the period from 1837 to 1868.”

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Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen: Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana.

“Wartime governor of Louisiana.”

Tags: au:female, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1866, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:biography, ts:memory

Seccession Convention of 1861

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SOME TENNESSEE LETTERS, 1849 to 1864

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Blountville Tn, loc:Greenville Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1945, su:Andrew Johnson, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Secession Is Nothing but Revolution: A Letter of R. E. Lee to His Son "Rooney"

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Mason Tx, loc:San Antonio Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1961, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, ts:correspondence

The University of Virginia, October, 1860, to April, 1861

“October 1860-April 1861. Charlottesville, Virginia. A freshman at “The University” during the secession winter describes the events on ‘The Grounds.”

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The Papers of Thomas Ruffin

“Vol. 3, covers the Confederacy. Ruffin supported secession and served as a CSA Commissioner from North Carolina.”

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The Rebel Letter

“April 23, 1861. Prairie Farm, Tennessee. Volunteer state pride and Southern loyalty expressed in a young woman’s letter.”

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The Story of Sixty Years

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The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

“1860-August 2, 1865. Visiting in Abingdon, VA, when the war began, Hardin helped prepare soldiers for battle. Returning home to Harrodsburg, KY, she passed through Unionist East Tennessee. She found Nashville dull after the exhilaration of being…

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