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

The Fall of Richmond

“Reprinted from Richmond Dispatch, February 3, 1902.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1901, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“As an 8-year-old, the author traveled with her mother to Corinth, MS, shortly after the 1862 battle there, to be near her ailing father.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, pd:1901, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."

Tags: au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Pickens, milt:thirty-seventh Mississippi regiment, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Shreveport LA, milt:16th Louisiana Volunteers, milt:Caddo Fencibles, milt:Companyc 16th Louisiana Volunteers, pd:1901, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:memory

“Plantation in Onslow County, NC. Preface by Hunter McGuire, Late Surgeon-General, for Stonewall Jackson.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Virginia, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:narrative

“Life in old South, before, during, and after the Civil War in Louisiana, includes diary and family conversations.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cottage Hill Plantation, loc:East Feliciana La, loc:Jackson La, loc:Parish of East Feliciana La, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Dale County Al, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“Of use only for political history, a defense of secession.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, pd:1901, su:confederate, su:economics, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“1861-1865. Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. Recollections of the war’s impact on a beautiful mountain retreat.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Beersheba Springs Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Colimbia SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:2nd South Carolina Cavalry, milt:Beaufort District Troop, milt:Jeb Stuart's Staff, pd:1901, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory