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

The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and Peace.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Life Behind Confederate Lines in Virginia: The Correspondence of James D. Davidson

“April 20, 1861-July 1, 1864. A Rockbridge County lawyer reflected the concerns of those citizens who lived in a part of Virginia which was often threatened by the war but invaded only once.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Linville Creek VA, loc:Rockbridge County VA, loc:Staunton VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1970, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Flower de Hundred: The Story of a Virginia Plantation

“Life before and during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, loc:Virginia, pd:1890, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern

Reminiscences of C. C. Cox

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Some Recollections of George Caleb Bingham

“1861-1865. Missouri. General memories of the great Missouri artist, including his wartime activities.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Kansas City MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Siege and Fall of Selma, Alabama

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Vivid War Experiences at Ripley, Miss

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:ripley MS, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1866, Part II

"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…

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Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1865, Part I