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

The Freedmen at Port Royal

Tags: era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:Sea Islands SC, loc:South Carolina, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:slavery, ts:narrative

The Evacuation of Richmond: Personal Recollections of Mrs. Amella Gorgas as Recorded in Her Diary

“April 2, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Fall of the Confederate capital, as described in the diary of the CSA Ordnance Officer.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1917, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and Peace.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Hidden Way to Dixie

"1863. Washington, D.C. to Richmond, Virginia. A New York businessman’s account of his trip to CSA."

Tags: au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:travel, su:union, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Heroine of Fort Fisher

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Fort Fisher, loc:Fort Fisher NC, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1929, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:medical, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond: Early Recollections; Vivid Portrayal of Amusing Scenes

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:gates county nc, loc:North Carolina, loc:suffolk va, loc:the dismal swamp, loc:Virginia, su:homefront, su:local history, su:observer, su:travel, ts:narrative

The Diary of James T. Ayers: Civil War Recruiter

“December 28, 1863 - May 24, 1865. The volume includes the observations of an ‘aging’ Methodist minister from Illinois who came South to recruit "patch of darkies" for the Union Army, beginning at Stevenson, Alabama. Later, he enlisted as a soldier…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, milt:preacher, pd:1947, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:union, su:warfront, ts:diary

THE EARLY CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN KENTUCKY AS EXPERIENCED BY CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZERS

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Camp Boone Tn, loc:Clarksville Tn, loc:Tennessee, milt:Second Kentucky Infantry Regiment, pd:1970, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels

“During the latter part of 1861, this fiery Knoxville newspaper editor became so obnoxious to the confederates that he sought safety in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Being induced to come back to Knoxville he was arrested and…

Tags: era:1860, era:1861, era:antebellum, pd:1862, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, su:unionist, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Some Memories

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Kingdport TN, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1937, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:diary, ts:memory

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