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

Refugees of 1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

The White Castle of Louisiana

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

A War Time Foundry

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Rome AL, pd:1956, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

My Childhood Recollections of the War

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The City of Vicksburg (A Girl’s Journey to Vicksburg, Second Section)

“1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. The account of a young woman’s trip to the key river port, under Union escort.”

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

Southern Silhouettes

“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, pd:1887, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Recollections of the Civil War

“As an 8-year-old, the author traveled with her mother to Corinth, MS, shortly after the 1862 battle there, to be near her ailing father.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, pd:1901, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, 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

A Confederate Girl Visits Pennsylvania, July-September 1863, Part 1

“July 29-September 3, 1863. Letters. Relates her travel from Maryland to Pennsylvania, the city of Altoona, family affairs, and impressions of the course of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Altoona PA, loc:beltsville md, loc:Maryland, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1966, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:diary

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