Color engraving of Union soldiers being greeted at a plantation home. An African Amreican family can be seen on the right, a group of women and children stand at the top of the stairs of the house.
Monthly report of the Confederate Provost Marshal of the Georgia District providing numbers of officers and privates for each division in his district and statistics for individuals charged with offenses. Categories include drunkenness (officers...
List of quartermaster's stores received by Quartermaster to Captain J. P. Baltzell, Provost Marshall at Augusta, Georgia. List includes two horses, one mule, three saddles, and three bridles taken from R. N. H. Mazer of Company D, 3rd South...
Letter from Gamble Rutledge to his father, G. R. Rutledge, concerning his brother Robert's regiment, his parents' desire to move to Georgia, his brigade's activities, his desire to change his position in the regiment, and the status of his wounded...
Planter's Bank of Georgia five-dollar note signed by the future Confederate General Hugh Mercer. There are also two Western and Atlantic Railroad notes and a Georgia five-dollar bill.
Military officers; Military uniforms; Militias; Military training; Military education
Tennesse State Guard officers who attended military training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1942. There are approximately forty-three officers in the photograph.
Letter from Robert Rutledge to his father, G. R. Rutledge, explaining the strategic value of East Tennessee and the likelihood of a Union invasion. He implores his father to leave Cleveland, Tennessee, and flee south to Georgia before such a raid...
Map of Middle and East Tennessee as far west as Savannah, as far east as Knoxville, as far North as Clarksville, and south into Georgia and Alabama. Displays roads and their names, numerous cities (Nashville, Perryville, Kingston, Chattanooga, et...
Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia memorializing those Union prisoners who died at the Andersonville Confederate Prison, as well as all other American prisoners of war. The Tennessee Union Soldiers' Monument, dedicated to those lost in...
Tintype of Thomas Stewart. Stewart was born in Quebec, Canada, and his family later moved to Indiana. Stewart enlisted in Co. A, 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment, USA. He was captured at the Battle of Atlanta. Stewart was a POW at Andersonville,...
Form No. 23 details the items issued from the Confederate Quartermaster's Office in the field at Chickamauga and Dalton, Georgia. It itemizes those received by purchase, from officers, fabricated, issued, expended, remaining on hand, and their...
Special Order No. 1 from the headquarters of the 30th Tennessee Regiment of Volunteers in Dalton, Georgia, requiring the examination of and report on a lot of clothing, including jackets, pants, caps, hats, drawers, shirts, and socks. It includes...
This is Special Field Order No. 114, issued by General John Hood, relieving Captain J. P. Baltzell from duty at Opelika, Alabama, and assigning him to duty as Provost Marshal at Augusta, Georgia.
The first in a bound collection of colonial documents is a complete copy of the Proclamation of 1763 promulgated at the end of the French and Indian War by King George III of Great Britain. The item is hand-written in ink on paper, copied by John...
