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

A Visit to South Carolina in 1860

“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:travel, ts:memory

Social Life in Richmond During the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1891, era:Civil War, he:The Seven Days Battles, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Autobiography of Arab.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Colimbia SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:2nd South Carolina Cavalry, milt:Beaufort District Troop, milt:Jeb Stuart's Staff, pd:1901, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Vicksburg During The Siege

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1878, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Harmony Hall: Recollections of an Old Southern Home, 1852-1882.

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Thirty Years of My Life on Three Continents

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1890, su:confederate, su:political, su:southern, su:travel, ts:memory

Vicksburg And After: Being the Experience of a Southern Merchant and Non-Combatant during the Sixties

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1907, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Report on Civil War America: Sir James Fergusson's Five-Week Visit

“September 17-October 23, 1861. Letter. Conservative member of the British Parliament. Traveled in both the North and South and visited the major personalities of the war. This letter to Lord Palmerston revealed that Fergusson favored the South and…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:England, pd:1966, su:foreign, su:observer, su:political, su:seccession, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1908, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Other Days

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Chunnenuggee Ridge Plantation AL, loc:Union Springs AL, pd:1943, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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