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

A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Camp Banks LA, loc:Hampton Roads Va, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, loc:Virginia, milt:48th Massachusetts Volunteers, pd:1961, su:African American, su:camp life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Reminiscence

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Bayou Sara LA, loc:Louisiana, su:camp life, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront

A Southern Record.: The history of the Third Regiment, Louisiana Infantry

“A SOUTHERN RECORD is an exceptionally valuable commentary on conditions in the Civil War South, written by a Confederate soldier soon after the end of the conflict. Considerable portions of the narrative are transcriptions of notes kept by Tunnard,…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Louisiana, loc:Missouri, milt:3rd Regiment Louisiana Infantry, pd:1866, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:narrative

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 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