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

Letters to Secretary Chase from the South, 1861

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“Journey through western North Carolina following his escape.”

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“June 7, 1860-September 7, 1862. Powder Springs, Georgia, and Virginia. Correspondence of a Georgia family as the war began.”

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“Spring 1864. Richmond, Virginia. A former soldier recalls the realities of hospital days.”

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“1861. Lexington, Missouri. An eyewitness account of the action at a key Missouri River town early in the war.”

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“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia, and route of Confederate evacuees. An eyewitness account of the fall of Richmond and the flight southward”

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