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

Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1990, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:union, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Echoes from hospital and White House

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

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

Exhumation of the Body of John C. Calhoun 1863

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:exhumation of John C. Calhoun, loc:Carleston SC, loc:Morris Island SC, pd:1951, su:medical, su:political, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Extracts from the Memoirs of William Franklin Avera

Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin

“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated South by two key Confederates.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Cuba, loc:Richmond VA, pd:1910, su:confederate, su:economics, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves

“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Somerset Va, loc:Stafford County Va, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Experience of Missouri Women

“1864. Missouri. A Missouri Confederate recalls her daring and trying experiences to serve the CSA.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc: Kansas City MO, loc:Liberty Landing MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, 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

End of Vicksburg Campaign

“1862- 1863. Mississippi and Mobile. A Confederate chaplain’s experiences near the frontlines of battle and a trip to Mobile.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Jackson MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Mobile MS, pd:1920, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

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