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Listed as the Lillard School in the State Board of Education Records, this photograph has been identified by Maryville natives as the William J. Hale School. The building is a large imposing brick structure situated on a hill. At the time the...
Letter from Pvt. William Joshua Thomas, Hale's Battery, Va. Lt. Arty., CSA, to his sister (name unknown) while Thomas was a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. Thomas writes of his capture along with some four hundred other men. He reports on his good...
Photograph of Pvt. William Joshua Thomas Sr., Hale's (later Jackson's) Battery, Va. Lt. Arty., CSA, in civilian clothing. Thomas enlisted April 18, 1863, at Dublin. He was captured August 7, 1864, at Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia) and...