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

Judith W. McGuire: "A Lady of Virginia"

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1974, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Beechwood Tn, loc:Huntsville AL, loc:Tennessee, pd:1889, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“March 1864. Richmond, Virginia. A memory of one woman’s valiant effort to save Confederate capital during a Union cavalry attack.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1906, su:Battle of Richmond, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

“March 1884. Richmond, Virginia. The wife of the Confederate secretary of War helps to thwart Ulric Dahlgren’s raid on the CSA capital.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:narrative

“Spring, 1862. Near Memphis, Tennessee. A lady recalls her experiences as the Union troops arrived in the area of her country home east of Memphis.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1896, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:prison, ts:memory