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

What Fort Fisher Meant to the Confederacy

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Fisher, loc: ‎Wilmington NC, loc:Fort Fisher NC, loc:Kure Beach NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1929, pd:1930, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:plantation, su:political, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana

“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, pd:1930, su:African American, su:education, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Confederate Treasury

“April-May 1865. Richmond to Georgia. A brief account of the fate of Confederate gold and paper reserved on the flight from Virginia.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Georgia, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Washington County GA, milt:Company F Mississippi Cavalry, milt:Ferguson's Brigade, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

The University of North Carolina

"1861-1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A personal reflection of events in Chapel Hill and at UNC during the war."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1930, su:civilian, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Sixty years on the Brazos; the life and letters of Dr. John Washington Lockhart, 1824-1900

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Texas, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:medical, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

Remainiscing in Lively Vein

“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”

Going Home From the Army

“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to Wytheville, Virginia to warn the residents of a Yankee advance.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Wytheville VA, pd:1930, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Concessions Made for Union

"1865. General. A recollection of post-war actions which led to a comparative halt in sectional disagreements in the Protestant Episcopal Church."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, pd:1930, su:religion, su:southern, ts:narrative

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