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

Southland Stories

“Background of war stories.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:piedmont region VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Suffering in Fredericksburg: Refugees Returned After Battle to Find Chaos in Old City

“Early in 1863. Fredericksburg, Virginia. A description of destruction in the Virginia river town.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fredericksburg, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

SUE MUNDY: "An Account of the Terrible Kentucky Guerrilla of Civil War Times"

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861

“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Mandeville Plantation, loc:Marlborough SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:plantation, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Last Days of the War, 1863-1865

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:local history, su:military, su:observer, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Life and Diary of John Floyd: Governor of Virginia, An Apostle of Secession and the Father of the Oregon Country

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Oregon, loc:Oregon Country or, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:diary

The Life and Adventures of Capt. Robert W. Andrews of Sumter, South Carolina: Extending over a period of 97 years ... Together with reminiscences of the war of 1812, and the recent "unpleasantness" between the North and South.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

The Iron Furnace: or, Slavery and Secession.

“A highly colored description of events in northeast Mississippi from the eve of the war through the arrest of the author for pro-Yankee statements.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tupelo ms, pd:1865, su:civilian, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, su:union, ts:narrative

The Evacuation of Richmond: Personal Recollections of Mrs. Amella Gorgas as Recorded in Her Diary

“April 2, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Fall of the Confederate capital, as described in the diary of the CSA Ordnance Officer.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1917, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and Peace.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

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