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

Robert Toombs

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1886, su:economics, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:narrative

Rogues and Black Hearted Scamps: Civil War Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863

Searching for the American Dream in Arkansas: Letters of a Pioneer Family

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Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Sketches and Reminiscences

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Some Memories of My Life

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Southern Silhouettes

“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”

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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

Tales of the Home Folks in Peace and War

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Testimony of Margaret Ketcham Ward on Civil War Times in Georgia, Part I

“The statements made by a Birmingham hotel owner's wife before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1883 about the war years in Georgia—including very keen observations on her servants.”

Tags: era:1883, loc:Alabama, loc:birmingham al, su:Child Experience, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery

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