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

North America

“Anthony Trollope, the well-known English author, made a trip to America in August 1861. He spent most of his time in the North and in Canada, but he dipped into the South along the northern border on a trip from Baltimore to Missouri. He visited…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1863, su:civilian, su:English, su:foreign, su:local history, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina: Reminiscences of 1861 to 1865

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Fayetteville nc, loc:North Carolina, pd:1910, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:local history, su:war experience, 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.”