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

Documents Relating to El Destino and Chemonie Plantations, Middle Florida, 1828-1868. Part I

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Florida, loc:Tallahassee FL, pd:1929, su:chemonie plantation, su:economics, su:El Destino plantation, su:enslaved, su:local history, su:plantation, su:slavery, ts:narrative, ts:offical documents

Vicksburg And After: Being the Experience of a Southern Merchant and Non-Combatant during the Sixties

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1907, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Last Capital of the Confederacy at Danville

“April 3-10, 1865. Danville, Virginia. A brief description of the last Confederate capital by an unnamed eyewitness.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Danville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Last Days of the Southern Confederacy: Scenes in Streets of Richmond-Fabulous Prices

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1891, su:daily life, su:economics, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Missouri History Not Found in Textbooks: Sale of Slaves at Columbia in 1864

Tags: era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Missouri, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:offical documents

Old Louisiana

“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1929, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Westover Journal of John A. Selden, Esqr

“The personal journal of the owner of the great James River plantation, which clearly reflects the effects of the war on his personal life and fortune.”

A Remarkable Relic of the Confederacy

“Semmes comments on a lengthy letter from Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia, November 5, 1864. July 1, 1858-September 18, 1862. James River plantation, near Richmond, Virginia.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Crawfordsville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1895, su:economics, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence