Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
Proclamation issued by Governor Newton Cannon requesting 2500 volunteers from Tennessee to answer President Andrew Jackson's call for a war on the Creek Indians. It spells out the reasons for a call to arms and explains how volunteers are to be...
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...
Five men are standing in a rocky area near a creek that flows from a cave. All but one of the men are wearing overalls. The man nearest the creek has a rifle in his right hand and the man beside him may be with the film crew. He wears a pith helmet...
J. S. Burrow writes his brother from Chester County detailing his financial problems, his inability to collect money until cotton comes to market, his desire to move from Jacks Creek for better money-making opportunities, and his fear that he will...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front and side views of War Creek School, a white educational facility in Hancock County. The two-story, clapboard schoolhouse is topped with a steeple and set amid a stand of trees.
Dual photograph featuring two images of the wheat threshing equipment that was owned by George Whiteside of Swan Creek. A number of farm workers are pictured circulating between the thresher and the mule-drawn wagons of wheat.
