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

During the War and After the War.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, pd:1896, su:battlefield, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Down In Louisiana, 1862

“1862. Louisiana. A Presbyterian minister remembers the heat, mosquitoes, and concern for the CSA.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Pecan Groove LA, pd:1919, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:prison, su:religion, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Steele, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:Company A 3rd Florida Infantry, milt:Jacksonville Light Infantry, pd:1974, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:warfront, ts:diary, ts:narrative

Dickison and his men. Reminiscences of the War in Florida.

Tags: 2d Regt. 1862-1865. Florida artillery, au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1890, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Down South: An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War

“Day came to the United States as a correspondent for the London MORNING HERALD to report conditions North and South. He landed at New York and, went to Lexington, KY, and thence to Nashville, presumably by Louisville, and on through Chattanooga,…

Tags: au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, pd:1862, su:civilian, su:military, su:observer, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative