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

“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans

“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1867, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:Freedmen, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbus. Ky, loc:Kentucky, milt:39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1953, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

A Bluecoat's Account of the Camden Expedition

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, pd:1965, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Boy of the Old Dominion During the War Between the States

“1861-1865. Alexandria, Virginia. The memories of a youngster living in the busy city on the south bank of the Potomac—across from Washington, D.C.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alexandria VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1929, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:local history, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Checkered Life

“The author's recollections of his early days in Montgomery County and elsewhere in Kentucky with notices of his Civil War experiences and the activities of the 24th Kentucky (Union) Regiment based on a diary. Also included is a collection of the…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, he:Corinth Campaign, loc:Kentucky, milt:24th Kentucky Regiment, pd:1883, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, ts:biography, ts:memory

A CIVIL WAR LETTER ON THE CAPTURE OF ATLANTA

A Confederate Girl's Diary

"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New

“Southern life in the South during the War.”

A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865

A French View of the Fall of Richmond: Alfred Paul's Report to Drouyn De Lhuys, April 11, 1865

“April 2-3, 1865. The French Consul in Richmond recorded the chaotic conditions of the Confederate evacuation of Richmond and the calm that existed when Federal troops took charge. He noted CSA Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin's behavior as…

Tags: au:French, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:French, su:homefront, su:observer, su:occupation, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

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