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 Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson

“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Tennessee, loc:Virginia, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1960, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Autobiography of James L. Smith: Including also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc.

“A description of the war by a slave driven from the Memphis area to Alabama and Mississippi.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Northern Neck Va, loc:Northumberland County Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1882, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Of Judge Nicholas Sandifer

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1962, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:slaveholding, ts:autobiography

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

“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

English Views of the Civil War: A Unique Excursion to Virginia, April 2-8, 1865

“April 2-8, 1865. An unauthorized trip through the Federal blockade up the James River by a party of Englishmen. Moseley, an accountant from London, described the ruins and the high price of goods at Petersburg and the devastation in Richmond, but he…