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

Loyalty on the Frontier, or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-West;

“Much Texas, Arkansas, especially valuable for Unionists in Arkansas and life near Fayetteville and Elk Horn Tavern, Arkansas.”

Tags: era:1862, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, he:Mexican American war, loc:Arkansas, loc:Fayetteville Ar, su:seccession, su:unionist

Tags: era:1861, he:convention of 1861, loc:North Carolina, pd:1900, su:political, ts:biography, ts:narrative

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, pd:1960, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

“Politics, little of battlefront; recollections of former Governor of North Carolina.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, pd:1911, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, loc:Kentucky, pd:1973, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:narrative

Civil War and Reconstruction.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“1865. Missouri. A personal summary of the strongly divided sentiments in the Border State - just after the end of battlefield conflicts.”

Tags: era:1869, era:postwar, he:General Order No. 11, loc:Boone County NC, loc:booneville MO, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Mexico, loc:Missouri, su:slavery, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Texas. A woman recalls stories about her grandmothers’ wartime experiences.”

Tags: era:1860s, loc:houston tx, loc:lexington tn, loc:Tennessee, loc:Texas, pd:1893, su:homefront

“December 1863. LaGrange, Georgia. A hungry Confederate captain on furlough describes the joy of eating a turkey who “died of a sore throat.”

Tags: era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Chickamauga, he:dalton-atlanta campaign, loc:Georgia, loc:LaGrange GA, pd:1893, su:confederate, su:homefront

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