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

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, pd:1929, su:chemonie plantation, su:economics, su:El Destino plantation, su:enslaved, su:local history, su:plantation, su:slavery, ts:narrative, ts:offical documents

The White Castle of Louisiana

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

Six Mille Lieues à Toute Vapeur

“Son of George Sand and Baron Datavant was in a group with Prince Napoleon that visited USA and Canada in 1861-part of the journey was in CSA.”

Tags: au:foreign, au:French, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1862, su:foreign, su:French, su:observer, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Old Louisiana

“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1929, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Westover Journal of John A. Selden, Esqr

“The personal journal of the owner of the great James River plantation, which clearly reflects the effects of the war on his personal life and fortune.”

James M. Torbert's Journal for 1857-1874

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Southern Silhouettes

“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, pd:1887, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Judith W. McGuire: "A Lady of Virginia"

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1974, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Manuscripts: Yancey-Davis Letter, Part 1

“Letters to and from William Lowndes Yancey on life in Alabama, before and during the War and difficulties facing the CSA.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1940, su:daily life, su:economics, su:political, su:religion, su:southern

When the States Seceded; From the Diary of Mrs. Eugene McLean

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1914, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

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