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

Boyhood Impressions of the Lexington Missouri, Area, 1858-1863

“Born in 1845, this young observer moved to Lafayette County from Virginia in 1858 and recalled life in west-central Missouri until his family moved to Illinois in 1863.”

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The Governor of Georgia Urges the Secession of Arkansas

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The Civil War Letters of Augustus Henry Mathers, Assistant Surgeon, Fourth Florida Regiment, C.S.A.

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

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

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Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.

“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…

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