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

Refugees of 1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Georgia Confederate Soldier Visits Montgomery, Alabama, 1862-1863

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia GA, loc:Georgia, milt:20th Georgia Infantry Regiment, pd:1963, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Remarkable Relic of the Confederacy

“Semmes comments on a lengthy letter from Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia, November 5, 1864. July 1, 1858-September 18, 1862. James River plantation, near Richmond, Virginia.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Crawfordsville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1895, su:economics, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

A Southern Woman’s Heroism

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1915, su:female experience, su:prison, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

My Relatives Are Leaving Me Very Fast': War Times Letters of James Wright to His Nephew

“June 14-July 3, 1864. A successful cotton producer from Russell County, AL, to his nephew stationed near Savannah. Concern for the young man's health, description of everyday activities on the plantation, and references to shortages of glass jars…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Oswichee Creek GA, loc:Russell County AL, pd:1982, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Andersonville Ga, loc:Georgia, su:Andersonville Prison, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary