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

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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“1861-1865. The fascinating eyewitness account of Carter Anderson, a railroad conductor for the Confederacy. Anderson ran trains for the Virginia Central Railroad during Union Cavalry raids and movements of General Lee and Jackson's troops around…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1990, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:Railroads, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Letters from a Southern Opponent of Sectionalism, September, 1860, to June, 1861

Tags: era:1860, era:1861, loc:Alabama, loc:Kentucky, loc:Mississippi, su:plantation, su:Railroads, su:seccession, ts:correspondence

From the 'Eastern Shore' of Virgina

"1861. Eastern shore of Virginia. A native of the region east of Chesapeake Bay declares “This entire country... was intensely Southern in sentiment.”

Tags: era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1924, su:blockade, su:Railroads, ts:memory

Conductor J.L. Bell Retired

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, milt: 7th Georgia Regiment, pd:1893, su:Railroads

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Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865 NOT DIGITAL

Letters from a Southern Opponent of Sectionalism, September, 1860, to June, 1861

From the 'Eastern Shore' of Virgina

Conductor J.L. Bell Retired

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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