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

Alabama Secedes From the Union

“November 1860-January 1861. Montgomery. Alabama. A judge reviews the election events in 1860 and the secession debates in Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

Alabama's Secession Convention, 1861

“January 1861. Montgomery, Alabama. Recollections of the conventions by a delegate—prepared by his grandson.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, he:Alabama's Secession Convention, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, ts:narrative

An Account of the Occupation of Fort Hudson, Louisiana

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Hudson LA, milt:6th Alabama Infantry, milt:Company D 6th Alabama Infantry, pd:1956, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

An Account of the Organization and Operations of the Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1902, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:political, su:war experience, ts:narrative

An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862

“The Rev. W. Wyndham Malet was Vicar of Ardeley, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England. He came to America to visit his sister at Conway, SC. He traveled by steamer from Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, on a British warship to Charleston, by train to…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, pd:1863, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:foreign, su:homefront, su:observer, su:plantation, su:religion, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

An Incident of War Times

“May 1865. Florida. A recollection of the first days of peace, when “the air was full of rumors of defeat."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

An Old Book Re-Reviewed

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:education, su:southern, ts:narrative

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1902, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, With Reminiscences Illustrative of the Vicissitudes of its Pioneer Settlers

“Includes chapters on the people involved in all facets of the history of this area including the settlement, wars (Indian, Revolutionary, and Civil), and the years after the war. A detailed diary written by a writer at Staunton gives a vivid account…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:homefront, su:local history, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

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