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

A Night of Terror

“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Days that are No More: or, Plantation Life as it Was, Part 1

The Days That Are No More: or, Plantation Life As it Was, Part 2

Memoirs of Dr. Winthrop Hartly Hopson

“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1887, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.

“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands during the Civil War era”.

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Port Royal Experiment, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:Sea Islands SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1906, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:union, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Chronicles of Chicora Wood

“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgetown County Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1922, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Woman Rice Planter

“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”