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

Civil War Days in Huntsville

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Chapel Hill at the Close of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deadrick

“1861-March 17, 1869. Eastern Tennessee. In recollections written in 1890 and 1898," Facts Transpiring Within My Own Knowledge During the War in 1863-1864," on outspoken woman describes the many stresses and strains of the war in Appalachian area of…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chattanooga TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1948, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Confederate Hospitals at Petersburg, Va

“1862-1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A woman describes the tireless work by many individuals to help the Confederate wounded.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1921, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Experiences of Sarah J. Yeater, Written in 1909 and 1910 for my Three
Granddaughters, Frances, and Christine Yeater and Jeanette Brookmeyer

“Southern sympathies forced to flee south in Arkansas and Texas.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

CIVIL WAR LETTERS

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Crittenden County Ky, loc:Kentucky, pd:1974, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Conditions Just After the War

“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate surrender”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, pd:1931, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, Being Some Account of Historic Events on the Cape Fear River, Raleigh, N.C.

“Half of the book relates to CSA operations. Wilmington was last Confederate port closed during the war, so this volume is mine of information on blockade running and naval history about these strategic ports.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cape Fear Nc, loc:Cape Fear River NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1914, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, ts:narrative