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

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, pd:1982, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Visit to South Carolina in 1860

“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:travel, ts:memory

Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops

“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”

Tags: au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, milt:112th United States Colored Troops, pd:1981, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

LAND AND LABOR IN KENTUCKY, 1865; LETTERS TO GEORGE LEWIS GREATHOUSE

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Shelbyville Ky, loc:Versailles Ky, pd:1950, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923

"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1862, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:union, ts:offical documents

The Freedmen of Port Royal

“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the Sea Islands at Port Royal.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1863, su:African American, su:economics, su:education, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:slavery, ts:narrative

Social Life in Richmond During the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1891, era:Civil War, he:The Seven Days Battles, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Military Medicine in Occupied New Orleans, 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Fifty Years on the Road the Autobiography of a Traveling Salesman

“Interesting chapters on "On the road during Civil War," "In War-tom Missouri," "Road incidents in the South and West."

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Missouri, pd:1911, su:economics, su:travel, su:war experience

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