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

Fall of Richmond

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of Gen. Lee

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cumberland Valley VA, loc:Elizabethtown VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Reminiscences

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cass County MO, loc:General Orders No. 11, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1907, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:war experience

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.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Lexington, loc:Lafayette County MO, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1957, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

When South Carolina Seceded

“November 8, 1860-July 14, 1863. A lady offers her recollections of Columbia, South Carolina during secession time—as reflected in her teenage journal.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1921, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:memory

That Boy Joins the Army

“1861-1862. Louisville, Kentucky. A young sixteen-year-old decides to join the Confederate Army.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, pd:1919, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:military, su:southern, ts:memory

The Battles of Big Hill and Richmond, Kentucky, September, 1862

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Big Hill, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Jackson County Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Richmond Ky, pd:1918, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Tom Burton; or, The days of '61.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:child boy, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Some Neglected Aspects of the American Civil War: Recollections of John C. Wade

“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Williamsburg, he:Seven Days Battle, loc:Harrison's Landing Va, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Yorktown Va, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

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