Letter to Mr. J. H. Griffith from unknown writer who was located at a camp between Williamston and Georgetown, Kentucky. Letter discusses marching through Kentucy from Cumberland's Gap and seeing dead Union soldiers in Richmond. Also comments on...
Letter to Mr. G. W. Cook from W. B. Airhart. The letter discusses the effects of the war on the Confederate and Union soldiers in town. He also comments on the fighting at Corinth, Miss. and Kentucky and a fight in East Tennesee where Co[l]. Vaughn...
Cpl. Misemer explains they have moved 8 miles from Nashville on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad and plan to stay there for the summer. He also states that he has not been paid and is not getting a furlough. He comments that he received a...
Cpl. Henry Marshall Misemer, Co. F, 3rd Tenn. Cav., USA, comments in the letter to his wife Martha that one of their local boys is "drunk and loose" and some fellow comrades were finally furloughed. For the entire collection of letters, see TSLA...
Muster rolls for Co. H and Co. K, 47th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, dated September 1 - December 31, 1864. Comments give details of soldiers captured, injured, and killed in both companies after the battles of Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Franklin, and...
Maj. W. Jere Crook, 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, writes to his fiancee, Hattie Crook. He comments on their future marriage and wishes he could be her "Guardian Angel." Crook writes in vague terms about the war, describing places in Alabama rather...
In this postwar letter to his brother Francis Marion James, George James writes about his medical studies. He attended two surgeries and comments about his health and the health of the city, in addition to sharing and asking for news of family and...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Hobart Parrish talking about joining the Civilian Conservation Corps. He speaks about recruitment site at Bethel College and not being old enough to join the Civilian Conservation Corps, so his birthday was changed from 1917 to 1916 to make him a...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Hobart Parrish describing how aware he was of the conditions in the Great Depression and the New Deal. He saw pictures from New York or Pittsburgh of people in soup lines. In his area they were unable to sell produce but mostly raised their own...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Hobart Parrish describing what attracted him to join the Civilian Conservation Corps. He could get an education, earn money, and learn a trade. It was difficult to go to college, and he felt he would get the same preparation in the Civilian...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Parrish states that he believes when the Civilian Conservation Corps first ecamped outside Clarksville the locals were a taken aback by their presence, but after a while they became accepted, and locals even provided them lunch. They eventually...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Upon enlisting in the Civilian Conservation Corps you're supposed to stay 6 months, and most stayed 6 months. They were supposed to discharge a camp member after 2 years. Because of the work he was doing and his position as Civilian Conservation...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
The money made by the Civilian Conservation Corps could be spent by the family and it would help the towns that it went to. A butchershop owner once told Parrish if it hadn't been for Civilian Conservation Corps money he would've had to close. It...
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...
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While TSLA houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such...
While TSLA houses an item, it does not necessarily hold the copyright on the item, nor may it be able to determine if the item is still protected under current copyright law. Users are solely responsible for determining the existence of such...
