Three separate ink design drawings contained on one piece of coated fabric that relay sectioning, framing, and elevation in depicting proposed gates and stone fencing for the Chattanooga Cemetery. Scale is 1/2 inch to 1 foot.
Ceremonial flag of the Barrow Guards, Gordon's Bn., later known as Co. C, 1st Tenn. Cav. Regt. (Col. James T. Wheeler's), CSA. The flag is hand-sewn with eleven stenciled stars, hand-drawn pen and ink lettering and scroll. The flag belonged to...
Table of fourteen men and fifteen categories of clothing and equipment checked, including socks, trousers, drawers, knapsacks, ponchos, shoes, shirts, hats, blankets, overcoats, blouses, boots, caps, pocketbooks, and knives. The table also includes...
Report of expenses incurred on account of cemeteries and exhuming and reinterring the remains of deceased Federal soldiers by Brevet Major W. A. Wainwright, Captain Assistant Quartermaster. Includes total of $50,169.95 with $14,654.33 still...
List of thirty-nine line items including fifty pontoons, two stoves, fifteen blacksmiths bellows, and three portable forges, all of which are considered more economical to sell than to transport to other points. The invoice is made in accordance...
Advertisement dealing with iron head blocks for graves of soldiers buried in national cemeteries. Advertisement includes number of head blocks requested by location (8-12,000 for Memphis and 15-20,000 for Nashville), as well as the dimensions and...
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...
Semi-weekly report of the number of transportation orders received, issued, cancelled by error, and remaining on hand. It includes a statement of the amount of transportation furnished during the last half of the week ending August 26, 1865. ...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67101 for Angeline Taylor, refugee, to travel from Knoxville to Jonesboro, Tennessee. Taylor was 10 years old and was going to live with her mother. The order includes a letter to W. A. Wainwright at the Freedmen's...
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...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67122 for Antony DeGraft, destitute soldier, who had been robbed of his money and is unable to purchase food or lodging. The order permits him to travel from Knoxville to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and includes a letter...
Individual Transportation Order, September 28, 1865, for Gains Brooks; Sarah, his wife; and two daughters (refugees) with a letter detailing Brooks' imprisonment after trying to cross the Cumberland Gap to reach Federal forces, the family's move...
First sheet includes: date, name, railroad, from, to, distance, cost, and name and rank of officer ordering transportation. The second sheet includes names of sixty-six persons travelling with William Chambers. Persons listed include: William...
Special weekly report of transportation for week ending September 30, 1865, by William Alonzo Wainwright Assistant Quartermaster, Department of Tennessee, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Persons listed on form include: Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Polk...
Form No. 18 certifying the costs of travel and pay for Lieutenant Colonel John E. McGowan to attend the court-martial of S. R. K. Patton as ordered by Special Order No. 127. Payment totalled $40.85.
Abstract of provisions issued from the 1st day of November 1862 to the 1st day of December 1862 to sick in hospital. Wainwright notes that he compared the specifics for subsistence actually required in hospital.
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...
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...
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,...
Report of Transportation Issued by the Quartermaster's Dept. from June 17 - July 11, 1866. Handwritten document listing destinations and mileage: Marietta (116 miles), Knoxville (112 miles), Tunnel Hill, Georgia (29 miles), Nashville (151 miles),...