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.
Enlisted in Company E, 18th Infantry, May 29, 1861, at Camp Cheatham. He was captured at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, and sent to Camp Butler prisoner of war camp in Illinois. He was parolled and was killed at New Hope Church on May 16, 1864....
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...
Front page account of the military operations in Tennessee with a map showing "Situation of the Rebel Forces Under Generals Bragg, Breckinridge, Cheatham, Buckner, Forrest, and Their Guerrila Allies�"
Letter from Quartermaster General's Office to Kinney and Kinney of Nashville, Tennessee, denying claims of William P. Mays and others due to the disloyalty of the claimant and witnesses.
Letter to "Dear Sister" tells of Shipp's location about 200 miles from Camp Cheatham in East Tennessee. He is feeling "well and harty," and the regiment is on its way to Virginia. He advises her to direct letters to Camp Bradford and "say James...