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

Governor John Gill Shorter Executive Papers

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Letters of Rev. W.H. Mitchell, January 1861

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A.B. Moore Correspondence Relating to Secession

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A Contemporary Account of the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis

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A Missouri Confederate in the Civil War, the Journal of Henry Martyn Cheavens

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Letters from the Battle of Lexington: 1861

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Plantation Lessee Problems In 1864

“May 2, 1864. Lower Mississippi Valley. A professor at the University of Michigan was one of a group of investors attracted by the proposition of raising cotton on the occupied plantations along the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. This letter…

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Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861

“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…

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The Lafourche District in 1862: Invasion

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The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861

“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than moving east with her husband and the Confederate army. She included incidents of the occupation, the…

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