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

In the Back-Country of South Carolina, 1862-1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1909, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Battles of Big Hill and Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Big Hill, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Jackson County Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Richmond Ky, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Eyewitness: Or, Life Scenes in the Old North State, Depicting the Trials and Sufferings of the Unionists During the Rebellion

“The preface states the work is true and was written in the South "more than two years ago."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1865, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot

“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…

Tags: au:female, era:1860, era:1860s, era:1861, era:1862, era:1863, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Battle of the Handkerchiefs

“February 20, 1863. New Orleans, Louisiana. A woman remembers how she and others used their handkerchiefs to help Confederate prisoners.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:The Battle of the Handkerchiefs, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Louisiana, pd:1923, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, su:The Battle of the Handkerchiefs, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF ALBERT BOULT FALL GUNNER FOR THE CONFEDERACY

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Bowling Green Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:Rock City Guards, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

My Return from Dixie

“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home to Middle Tennessee soon after the end of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Macon MS, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, pd:1906, su:African American, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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