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

Unpublished Chapters of History. Last Days of the Confederate Government. From Papers Left by Stephen R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy in the Confederate Cabinet

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Fort Lafayette NY, loc:New York, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1900, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, ts:memory

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

The Lights and Shadows of Itinerant Life: An Autobiography of Rev. Simon Peter Richardson

“A Major in the Confederate Army.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, loc:Macon GA, pd:1900, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, ts:autobiography

The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days

“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1900, su:battlefield, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative