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

Elisha Baxter's Autobiography

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Batesville Ar, milt:Arkansas Mounted Infantry, pd:1955, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:union, su:unionist, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:correspondence

Eight Months in Missouri: The Civil War Letters of Philander H. Nesbit

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Echoes from the Battlefield; Or, Southern Life During the War

“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:war experience, ts:memory

Echoes from hospital and White House

Tags: loc:Washington D.C., su:abraham lincoln, su:camp hospital, su:medical, su:religion

Early Days of the War in Missouri

“June-December 1861. Missouri. A recollection of the deep divisions of loyalty in a key border state.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Early Confederate War Days

“1861- 1862. A Presbyterian minister notes the first months of sectional conflict.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Donelson LA, loc:Louisiana, pd:1919, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828-1874. Reprinted from the Jeffersonian Republican

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charlottesville NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:seccession, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

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 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

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

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