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

Mrs. Georgia Moore DeFontaine

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:postwar, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:memory

“The author lived among these tribes from 1820 until 1890.”

Tags: au:male, era:1800s, era:antebellum, era:postwar, pd:1899, su:daily life, su:Native American, su:religion, su:southern, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:California, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:military, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

“June 1865. Austin, Texas. Forty robbers attempt to steal “100,000 in gold and 400,000 in paper money."

Tags: era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, pd:1893, su:confederate, su:economics

“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, loc:Texas, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, pd:1930, su:African American, su:education, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“Bushwhackers, the war in Missouri and Kansas.”

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Missouri, milt:lieutenant colonel, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:union, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Mississippi, loc:Shiloh MS, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:autobiography