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

A Girl of the Sixties

“1861-1862. Kentucky. From her memory as “a resentful girl of thirteen years,” a recollection of Union occupation early in the war.”

Tags: era:1860s, era:1861-1865, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1893, su:Child Experience, su:child girl, su:homefront

A TRUE STORY OF THE OLD SOUTH: Notes from a Confederate Diary

Tags: era:1862, loc:Arkansas, loc:Kentucky, loc:Missouri, milt:7th Virginia Cavalry, su:slaveholding, su:slavery

A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbus. Ky, loc:Kentucky, milt:39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1953, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Red-Headed Rebel

“Unknown time or place. A cute wartime story.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Carrollton Ky, loc:Kentucky, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:memory

“The author's recollections of his early days in Montgomery County and elsewhere in Kentucky with notices of his Civil War experiences and the activities of the 24th Kentucky (Union) Regiment based on a diary. Also included is a collection of the…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, he:Corinth Campaign, loc:Kentucky, milt:24th Kentucky Regiment, pd:1883, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, ts:biography, ts:memory