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

Eneas Africanus

“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, loc:Texas, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:correspondence

Faithful Negroes Who Were Slaves

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Dale County Al, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

FANNY COHEN'S JOURNAL OF SHERMAN'S OCCUPATION OF SAVANNAH

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1957, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

Fall of Richmond, April 3, 1885

“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former resident of the CSA capital describes the awesome events of the fall of the city.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba

“Mrs. Ripley and her husband lived on a Mississippi River plantation four miles below Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the fall of New Orleans and the fighting around Baton Rouge, the Ripley’s fled to Texas. Sending some of their slaves ahead, they set…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc::Mexico, loc:Cuba, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1889, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory