This one-page printed provision return form with handwritten entries was submitted by Captain McDearmon of the 17th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, C. S. A., and represents three days of rations drawn by fifty-one men stationed at Camp Hope near...
Three-quarter legth tintype of Frederick Claybrooke. It is set in a hinged oval case. The text states that he was killed at Hoover's Gap while leading his regiment into battle.
Correspondence from a soldier to his wife. He writes of the need for news from home. In the upper left hand corner is a depiction entitled "Capitol at Washington" printed by Reagles & Co. of New York. There is mention of Gen. Landers, a Col. Tyler...
Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...
Receipt for the delivery by Edward Jackson of fourteen bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Amos Dalton of 10 bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in the Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Samuel Jackson of nine bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in the Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Peter Myers of nine bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in Knoxville National Cemetery.
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...