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

“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans

“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Confederate Girl's Diary

"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862

“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:religion, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Wisconsin Soldier Reports from New Orleans

A Yankee in Louisiana: Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Henry R. Gardner, 1862-1866

Tags: 10th U.S. Colored Artillery, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:18th New York Independent Battery Light Artillery, milt:Company G 10th US Colored Artillery, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro

Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War

Tags: au:northern, era:1863, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, milt:Army of the Potomac, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Clarimonde: A Tale of New Orleans Life, and of the Present War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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

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