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...
Military personnel; Presidents; Presidential appointments
Military commission of Lewis T. (aka Louis Thompson) Morris, Brevet Major, U. S. Army, December 16, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee," signed by President Andrew Johnson, cosigned by Edwin M. Stanton,...
Letter from Mary Burnett to her husband Jacob Burnett discussing a ring she made, an incident in Warsaw, Kentucky, where two Federal men were nearly hanged, and the death of William Kittle. Offers to send him newspapers and clothing and asks if he...
Letter from William Templin to his wife Pollyanna Templin and children. W.M. Templin originally enlisted in the Confederate Army in Hawkins County, Tennessee. He was captured and sent to Indiana. He took the oath of allegience and enlisted in Co....
Cyrus Clark (bio unknown) of Indiana writing to his parents in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana. Clark details his unit's movements in Georgia and Tennessee.
Cyrus Clark (Indiana, regiment unknown), to his parents in Clinton County, Indiana. Clark details movements through Ringgold, Resaca, and Dalton, Georgia.
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,...
History of the 83rd Ind. Vol. Inf. Regt. by J. Grecian of Co. A. Published in Cincinnati, 1865. Book belonged to Samuel Stewart, possibly of Putnam County. Family lore has it that Samuel was working in a field when he was kidnapped by Yankees and...
William A. Geiger in color, standing with one hand on a chair at the estate of Dixon Place Downey in Vero Beach, Florida. Geiger was a member of the 149th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and was shot in the leg during the Civil War. He was originally...
Form II, Book and Blank Division, from Ordnance Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., to Colonel George P. Buell, 58th Indiana Volunteers, Department of the Cumberland. "I transmit to your address today, by mail, in compliance with requisition...
Abstract of provisions issued from the 1st day of November 1862 to the 1st day of December 1862 to sick in hospital. Wainwright notes that he compared the specifics for subsistence actually required in hospital.
One-page handwritten consolidated abstract of provisions form submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of the 75th Indiana Infantry, reflecting subsistence stores sold to officers in the...
Acknowledgement from Office of Commissary General of Subsistence to Lieutenant William Wainwright, 75th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Chattanooga, Tennessee, that his Returns of Commissary Property for July, August, September, October, and November...
Return of provisions received, issued, and remaining on hand In the Field during the month of December 1862 by Lieutenant William A. Wainwright. Items listed include: pork, bacon, ham, salt beef, fresh beef, beef cattle, flour, hard bread, beans,...
Consolidated provision return for the 75th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers commanded by Colonel Milton S. Robinson for 6 days, from November 23-26, 1862. The document lists number of rations (4,891), pounds of fresh beef, bacon, beans, rice,...
Painted portrait of Dr. Gerard Troost, the first state geologist of Tennessee. Troost is shown standing beside a table and gesturing to a book on the table. The original portrait is now located at the Tennessee State Museum (Nashville).
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