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...
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...
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Letter from Sarah Hamilton to her husband, John B. Hamilton. She is critical of the conscription, and remarks that "I have not got any man to stay with me."
Stone Mountain .5 dollar coin. Jacob T. Helms's coin from a reunion of Confederate veterans. He was in Company A, 24th Virginia Infantry, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps.
Wooden spoon hand carved by John Marshall Akin, Co. B, 53rd Ga. Inf. Regt., Simms' Brigade, McClaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps. Akin, a resident of Barnesville, Ga, served one year in the army. He then served three years as a hospital nurse...
One order, sent from "Headquarters Left Wing Army [of] Ten[nessee]" orders that "Quartermaster's or foraging parties belonging to this command will not forage any more from this man J. Hunley, as he has no more than will support his family until...
