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  • Deadman's hill
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    War destruction & pillage; War damage; World War, 1914-1918
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    Debris (helmet, shoes, skulls, etc.) scattered on a hill with the limb of a tree in the distance giving the eerie feel of desolation and destruction.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • William Luther Bigelow Lawrence Diary Excerpts
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    Civil Wars; War
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    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...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • World War I Soldiers making a salvage tour of a battlefield
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    World War 1914-1918; Soldiers; Battlefields France 1910-1920; War
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    Photograph of a dozen soldiers of the 30th Infantry Division walking through the remains of a battlefield at Montbrehain, France in October 1918. There is also one soldier mounted on one of the two horses pulling a cart. Battle debris, in the...
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Remains of a Boche
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    War casualties; War destruction & pillage; War damage; World War, 1914-1918
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    Pictured skeleton of the enemy on the ground surrounded by debris, fully clothed.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Street in Noyon mined by Germans
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    World War, 1914-1918; Mine warfare; Mines (Warfare); Explosives; War damage; Soldiers; Debris
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    The ruins of a street in Noyon as a result of mine warfare. Two French soldiers in the foreground appear to be looking at something on the ground. Two men are clearing debris in the background.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • The Stump Puller
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    Barbed wire; Prisoners; Military personnel; Tree stumps; Trees; Fences
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    This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of two men trying to remove tree stumps from the ground at the prison camp. He has written, "In order that there be parade grounds" on the top of the page. Underneath the drawing,...
  • Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. Journal

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