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

Up the St. John's River

“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Hilton Head Islands SC, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:South Carolina, pd:1865, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Call to Arms: Secession from a Feminine Point of View

“The ladies of Broward's Neck, Duval County, East Florida, November 6, 1860.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Broward's Neck Fl, loc:Cedar Creek Precinct Fl, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, pd:1957, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

The Occupation of Jacksonville, February 1864 and the Battle of Olustee: Letters of Lt. C. M. Duren, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, U.S.A.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt: 54th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1954, su:camp life, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Some War Scenes Revisited

“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, pd:1878, su:African American, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men

"A summary of events during the Civil War, at Pensacola, Apalachicola Bay, Santa Rosa Island, and Olustee, FL.."

Tags: era:1861, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:eastern shore va, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:St. Augustine FL, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Florida on the Eve of the Civil War as Seen by a Southern Reporter

“A reporter for the Charleston Daily Courier describes Florida in March and April 1861.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, ts:correspondence

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Steele, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:Company A 3rd Florida Infantry, milt:Jacksonville Light Infantry, pd:1974, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:warfront, ts:diary, ts:narrative

A Connecticut Yankee after Olustee

Tags: au:northern, era:1864, loc:connecticut, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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