Willis Crawford Rushing (1826-1916) was a Civil War veteran living in Benton County in 1897. He is pictured here with his family. Seated, left to right: Lively Etta Rushing Fry (1863-1943), Ernest E. Fry (1868-1937), Sophia Ann Rushing...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67108 for Mary Phinny and child, destitute refugees, to travel from Knoxville to New Market, Tennessee. Phinny was "here on a begging excursion and wishes to get home where she has four little children." The order...
Two-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...
Two-page letter from J. W. Maybin of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to John S. Brien. The letter requests legal advice from John S. Brien, "one of the first legal minds in the United States," regarding his legal options after having seen much of his...
Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
Two-page letter from Arthur H. Harris of Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes of his recruiting expedition and his rifle company, of recruits hankering for action, of George's desire for a chaplaincy, and...
This page is blank except for a drawing of a military tank that has been cut out from another sheet of paper and placed in the diary. Underneath the tank, Mitchener has written, "From the West" and "Lt. Hardy A. Mitchener." In addition to the...
This one-page handwritten form is an Abstract K, recording information that will be reflected in the quarterly return known as the Return of Quartermaster Stores (Form No. 23). Listed here by the regimental quartermaster are the dates, voucher...
This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
This is the last page of "Mothers' Sons," a poem about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who will never see...
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Side and front views of Nelson Merry School in Jefferson County. It is a two-story clapboard building set on rock pillars. The school has a front porch, hip roof, and is set among trees. A tall flagpole stands in the front yard.
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,...
Recommendation from Military Governor Andrew Johnson of Tennessee for a military pass for John Ullean "to go out on Lebanon road to procure a raft to be brought here for the Government." Ullean's credentials are endorsed by Dr. R. Knaffe, Surgeon,...
Pete Shelton (pictured here) had a father who was killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre. This picture was taken at home. The twins (babies) are Robert and Hobert. The three children are Jake, Bruce, and Macon Shelton. The two older children are...
Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...
One-page handwritten consolidated abstract of provisions form submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of the 75th Indiana Infantry, reflecting subsistence stores sold to officers in the...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
