Confederate regimental accounting document No. 10, for Captain J. E. Ray, Assistant Quartermaster for the 4th and 5th Tennessee Regiments, on the account of the Quartermaster's Department in the field for the quarter ending September 30, 1863....
Pay account to Newton J. Lillard for $370.00 signed by Quartermaster Captain George W. Allen. Remarks read, "Splendid officer, gets drunk pretty often, which takes most of my money, as we have to pay such high prices for whiskey can't you rase...
Certificate of payment for Confederate Major General B. F. Cheatham for services from June 1 to July 1, 1863, for a total of $300.00. Signed by M. B. Pilcherd, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, Paymaster in Cheatham's Division.
Confederate voucher No. 4, account of the payroll for eight men: two clerks, one office clerk, and five men in charge of driving cattle, for terms of 29, 31, 62, and 92 days, and ranging from $36.35 to $115.00. Signed by Captain and Assistant...
Acknowledgement from Office of Commissary General of Subsistence to Lieutenant William Wainwright, 75th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Chattanooga, Tennessee, that his Returns of Commissary Property for July, August, September, October, and November...
Letter from C. J. High, Quartermaster General's Department, Confederate States of America, to J. B. O'Bryan informing him that accounts and vouchers have been received for disbursements on account of pay of the army for the first quarter of 1864.
Letter from Major D. B. Brewer of the Confederate Subsistence Bureau in Richmond, Virginia, to Captain B. J. Semmes in Chattanooga, Tennessee, certifying that returns for the second and third quarters of 1863 have been received.
Portrait photographs; People; Men; Military personnel; Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms
Bust portrait of Adelbert A. Carrier in Federal uniform. An inscription on the back reads, "Yours Truly Adelbert A. Carrier, Liberty, Sullivan Co., N. Y."
Affidavit of W. T. Robinson signed by William C. Rawola, Notary Public, on the status of property lost by Company K, 5th Tennessee Cavalry, including one axe and eight horses, to accompany a statement of differences in the Quartermaster's Stores...
Military bands; Military uniforms; Musical instruments; Military occupations; Tents; Military camps; Boarding schools; Schools; Soldiers; Military officers
Federal officers, a regimental band with instruments, and several ladies pose in front of the two-story Aldehoff School. People can be seen in the windows of the building, and a tent appears in the right foreground of the dual-image stereograph...
Printed and handwritten one-page Form No. 27, List of Quartermaster's Stores, has been altered by Lieutenant Wingate T. Robinson to reflect a transfer of serviceable and unserviceable horses from his Commander, Captain E. W. Bass of Company K, 5th...
Color engraving of Union soldiers being greeted at a plantation home. An African Amreican family can be seen on the right, a group of women and children stand at the top of the stairs of the house.
Cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of a slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and...
Application of William H. Adams requesting back pay for his service as a private in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment commanded by Captain Andrew J. Garrison and Colonel A. E. Garret. He claims he was wrongfully declared a deserter. Application...
Application of James Lillard claiming payment due for Quartermaster's stores or subsistence supplies. Lillard claims that one hundred bushels of corn, 16,000 pounds of hay, 12,000 feet of plank, and five grey mares were taken by the U. S. Army...
A form issued by the Confederate Secretary of War promoting W. W. Ferguson to Second Lieutenant of the Corps Engineers. The document is signed by Judah P. Benjamin, whom Jefferson Davis would appoint Confederate Secretary of State the following...
Articles of agreement between Assistant Quartermaster E. B. Whitman and John M. Palmer for coffins for national cemeteries located at or near Natchez, Vicksburg, Corinth, Memphis, Pittsburg Landing, Fort Donelson, Nashville, and Marietta. Document...
Agreement between Wainwright and Cornelius for the construction of approximately 2,000 headboards for graves at a cost of $0.75 each. Stipulates where headboards are to be delivered, their appropriate dimensions, and specifications for...
Maps; Forts & fortifications; Batteries (Weaponry); Artillery (Weaponry); Cities & towns; Islands; Wetlands; Plantations; Rivers; Bodies of water; Military camps
Military map, hand-drawn on linen, by Albert Martin (possibly a Confederate cartographer). It stretches along the Mississippi River from Ashport in the north to Memphis in the south. Though detailed in its presentation of waterways, swamps,...
