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

History of the Civil War in America

Tags: au:French, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1875, su:foreign, su:France, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Goldie's Inheritance: A Story of the Siege of Atlanta

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Some Reactions of Union Soldiers Stationed in the South during the Civil War

Tags: au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Brazos Santiago TX, loc:Fayetteville Ar, loc:Minneapolis MN, loc:Minnesota, loc:Texas, pd:1951, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:union, su:war experience

A CONFEDERATE VIEW OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY, 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:southern Kentucky, milt:Company B 14th Mississippi Regiment, milt:Mississippi Enterprise Guards, pd:1972, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia

“From an old manuscript of a country place in Maryland.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:political, su:slaveholding, ts:correspondence

Daring Molly Tynes

“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to Wytheville, Virginia to warn the residents of a Yankee advance.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Wytheville VA, pd:1930, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Girl's Experience in the Siege of Vicksburg

“Personal reminiscence of the siege.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Old Louisiana

“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, pd:1929, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

An Incident of War Times

“May 1865. Florida. A recollection of the first days of peace, when “the air was full of rumors of defeat."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The White Castle of Louisiana

“Before, during, and after War, on a Louisiana plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

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