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

Grandfather's tales of North Carolina history.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:confederate, su:local history, su:southern, ts:narrative

Henry M. Stanley in Arkansas and the Dixie Grays

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, milt:6th Arkansas Regiment of Volunteers CSA, pd:1942, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:memory

Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men

"A summary of events during the Civil War, at Pensacola, Apalachicola Bay, Santa Rosa Island, and Olustee, FL.."

Tags: era:1861, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:eastern shore va, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:St. Augustine FL, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

How Captain Bryan Earned a Good Dinner

“Unknown time or place. A steamboat captain’s efforts to capture wild cattle.”

Tags: era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1893, su:camp life, ts:article

How a Woman Helped to Save Richmond

“March 1884. Richmond, Virginia. The wife of the Confederate secretary of War helps to thwart Ulric Dahlgren’s raid on the CSA capital.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:narrative

History of Banking in South Carolina from 1712 to 1900

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:South Carolina, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:economics, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

How I took a Letter on a Yankee General

“No Date. Maryland to “Western Virginia.” A schoolgirl’s teasing of an “enemy” officer.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Harrisburg Pa, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1920, su:child girl, su:military, su:southern, su:union, ts:memory

How to Escape the Yankees: Major Scott's Letter to His Wife at Tallahassee, March 1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Natural Bridge Battlefield, loc:Florida, loc:Leon County Fl, loc:Tallahassee FL, milt:2nd Florida Cavalry, pd:1971, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Historical Incidents: What "Our Women in the War" Did and Suffered

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels

“This is a trustworthy account which does not attempt to record minute details, conversations, and exact dates. Mrs. Irby Morgan was married to a brother of General John H. Morgan and was living in Nashville when the war broke out. Morgan left…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1892, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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