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

Boyhood Impressions of the Lexington Missouri, Area, 1858-1863

“Born in 1845, this young observer moved to Lafayette County from Virginia in 1858 and recalled life in west-central Missouri until his family moved to Illinois in 1863.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Lexington, loc:Lafayette County MO, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, pd:1957, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

Louisville During the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:Louisville Ky, pd:1882, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Rose Cottage. A Real Incident of the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Rose Cottage Plantation VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1869, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Letters of George Washington Whitman from North Carolina

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:Battle of New Bern, he:Battle of Roanoke Island, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Roanoke Island NC, pd:1973, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation

“First published in 1866, this book gives a perceptive account of life in Richmond during the war. Written in the third person, this work is more a social history of Richmond than an autobiography. Like Mrs. Chesnutt’s diary, this source has clear…

Tags: era:1860s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Bull Run, he:emancipation proclamation, he:lincoln assassination, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Virginia, su:seccession

Incidents in Blockade-Running

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1893, su:blockade, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Col A.H. Belo

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, pd:1902, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:biography

Our Faithful Slaves of Old

"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."

Tags: au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Pickens, milt:thirty-seventh Mississippi regiment, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:enslaved, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Caddo Fencibles

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Louisiana, loc:Shreveport LA, milt:16th Louisiana Volunteers, milt:Caddo Fencibles, milt:Companyc 16th Louisiana Volunteers, pd:1901, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:warfront, ts:memory

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