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

A Southern Woman’s Heroism

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1915, su:female experience, su:prison, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

A Missouri Boy’s Experiences

“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being exchanged as a prisoner of war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell

The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Andersonville Ga, loc:Georgia, su:Andersonville Prison, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

Seven Months a Prisoner, or Thirty-Six Days in the Woods

“Journey through western North Carolina following his escape.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1868, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:southern, ts:narrative

THE ESCAPE OF CONFEDERATE SECRETARY OF WAR JOHN CABELL BRECKINRIDGE AS REVEALED BY HIS DIARY

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:prison, su:southern, su:travel, ts:diary, ts:narrative

The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Mississippi, loc:Shiloh MS, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:autobiography

The Old Capitol and its Inmates

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

The South: A Tour of its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country -- its agriculture -- railroads -- business and finances

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, pd:1866, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

True Stories of Adventures of the Civil War: The Memoirs of W. G. D. Hinds

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Springfield MO, loc:Webb City MO, pd:1954, su:confederate, su:medical, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:diary

Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.

“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, pd:1865, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:prison, su:travel, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

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