Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
Parks; Mills; Water mills; Flour & meal industry; Millraces
The photograph is taken from a position overlooking the Alvin C. York grist mill, located in the Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park. The two-story millhouse can be seen behind the milldam that straddles the Wolf River.
United States voucher given to Mrs. E. McGavock and her daughters for corn supplied on October 27, December 14, December 15, December 16, December 21, and December 23, equaling 2,160 bushels of corn and $1,080.00. The voucher was collected by...
Account Form No. 12 from the United States Army Quartermaster for 42 wagon loads of corn in husk equal to 47,040 pounds, for the use of the 21st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio; 840 bushels and sixty carts per bushel. Received at...
Four-page form in which William Mitchell, agent of David Bales, files claim for ten bushels of corn taken by the 9th Michigan Regiment in October 1865 for use by the Federal Army. The initial filing occurred April 22, 1868. Also contained in the...
Confederate Voucher No. 34 stating the amount of food provided to sixty mules serving in the field under Major G. A. Atkins for November 1863. The mules consumed 19,824 pounds of corn. Voucher signed by Brigadier General William A. Quarles.
Sergeant Alvin C. York, as a miller, driving his truck into Jamestown, Tennessee, with a load of "York Special" home-ground corn meal. Four men are riding in the back of the truck with the bags of corn meal.
Return of provisions received, issued, and remaining on hand In the Field during the month of December 1862 by Lieutenant William A. Wainwright. Items listed include: pork, bacon, ham, salt beef, fresh beef, beef cattle, flour, hard bread, beans,...
Form No. 23 details the items issued from the Confederate Quartermaster's Office in the field at Chickamauga and Dalton, Georgia. It itemizes those received by purchase, from officers, fabricated, issued, expended, remaining on hand, and their...
Henry and Emma James were the younger siblings of Francis (Frank) W. James, a doctor in Rutherford, Tennessee. Aged seventeen and nine, Henry and Emma lived in Bluff Springs in Gibson County, Tennessee. Henry writes about the corn and cotton crops,...
Store account for goods bought of John A. Wilds & Son of Jonesborough, Tennessee. The account demonstrates the barter economy by which Tinker exchanges pork, corn, and corn meal for fabric and store goods. See also A. Christine Tipton's book,...
James Tinker's account for dry goods bought of J. A. Wilds & Sons in Jonesborough, Tennessee, in exchange for corn and bear skins, March 18, 1858. See also A. Christine Tipton's book, "Civil War in the Mountains."
Aerial view of an isolated mountain farm in east Tennessee. The photograph shows a large log house along with several outbuildings. A fence separates the fields. A mountain road is seen as well.
Document lists prices to be paid by Confederate armies when buying or impressing goods such as wheat, flour, corn, bacon, beef, sugar, candles, soap, and many others. It includes the 5-year average for prices of goods preceding the war, the...
