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

LETTERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO ANDREW JOHNSON (Continued)

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1950, su:Andrew Johnson, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

LETTERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO ANDREW JOHNSON

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1950, su:Andrew Johnson, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Watch on the Chattahoochee: A Civil War Letter

“A brief letter home from the future congressman and governor of Georgia.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Chattahoochee GA, loc:Georgia, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1959, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

First Days Amongst the Contrabands

“Excellent summary of the conditions near Port Royal and Beaufort, SC in Civil War, where Miss Botume worked for the Freedmen's Aid Society—her work as a teacher there led to this excellent account of the woeful conditions among the newly freed…

Tags: era:postwar, loc:South Carolina, pd:1893, su:African American, su:antislavery, su:education, su:Freedmen, su:slavery

Leaves from an old Washington Diary, 1854-1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Port Tobago Plantation, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1943, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

A Southern Woman's Wartime Reminiscences

“Benefit of Shiloh Monument Fund; description of a trip from Mobile to Memphis, and life in Alabama and Georgia.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1905, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

“1860-August 2, 1865. Visiting in Abingdon, VA, when the war began, Hardin helped prepare soldiers for battle. Returning home to Harrodsburg, KY, she passed through Unionist East Tennessee. She found Nashville dull after the exhilaration of being…

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Harrodsburg KY, loc:Kentucky, pd:1963, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:diary, ts:narrative

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