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

Three Hundred Miles in a Wagon

“Summer of 1865. Central Alabama to Franklin, Tennessee. A former Confederate refugee from the Union occupation carefully remembers her long wagon trip back home a few weeks after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1908, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

George Washington Diamond's Account of the Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862

Tags: au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:the great hanging at gainesville texas 1862, loc:collin county tx, loc:Cooke County TX, loc:denton county tx, loc:Gainesville TX, loc:grayson county tx, loc:Texas, loc:wise county tx, pd:1963, su:homefront, su:local history, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863;

“Vol. VII covers the Civil War era.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1938, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:correspondence, ts:memory, ts:offical documents

Confederate War History

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, loc:Baldwyn MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tishomingo Creek, pd:1883, su:confederate, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Missouri Boy’s Experiences

“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being exchanged as a prisoner of war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:memory