Oath of parole issued by the Federal Government and signed by Confederate Private J. E. Pike, from Company B, 5th Tennessee Cavalry. Pike agreed to cease hostility with the United States in exchange for permission to return home undisturbed by...
Account Form No. 22 from the United States Army Quartermaster to Private B. P. Pool of Company A, 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, for extra duty service as a wagoner for ninety-one days- September, October, and November of 1862- at twenty-five...
Lists name, rank, description, birthplace, occupation, date enrolled and mustered in, last pay date, bounty, and remarks. Claiborne M. George was a private, 27 years old, with black eyes and hair and dark complexion, and he was five feet, six...
One-page handwritten form, designated Form No. 33, Voucher for Abstract G, reflects the requisition for a month's forage for one private horse in the service of the Confederate States Army, along with the receipt or voucher information indicating...
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
Application of William H. Adams requesting back pay for his service as a private in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment commanded by Captain Andrew J. Garrison and Colonel A. E. Garret. He claims he was wrongfully declared a deserter. Application...
Receipt to Virgie B. Choat for one rifle valued at $16.00, reading, "In obedience to General order No. 1 issued by the Governor and Commander in Chief in accordance with a recent act of the Tennessee Legislature, I have proceeded to have valued the...
Notification from War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, that paperwork is not complete for Private J. H. Athens, who died July 26, 1864.
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.
Roster of eleven enlisted men serving in the 5th Regiment in Shelbyville on "extra duty" as teamsters - one ward master, one wage master, and one hospital nurse. The roster lists their ranks, companies, regiments, the names of the officers who...
One-page form that constitutes the official release of John Morrisey, private in the 10th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, from service in the United States Army, issued May 29, 1865.
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932; School buildings - Tennessee
Side view of Bells Consolidated Rosenwald School in Crockett County. The prim-looking white schoolhouse has multiple windows and is set in a withered cornfield.
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Two entrances flanked by windows are visible in this front view of Mt. Zion Hebrew Colored School. Two white men wearing straw hats are standing in the front yard. In the distance are cattle and trees.
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; Alvin C. York Agricultural Institute
Front view of York Institute in Fentress County. It is a large brick or stone building set amid pines, and has multiple windows and a low sloped roof. The words "York Institute" are laid out on the grass in the foreground.
This document is a nine page, unnumbered handwritten document found in "Acts of the Southwest Territory." It is dated July 11, 1795, and signed by Governor William Blount and Joseph Hardin.
The document is a six page, unnumbered handwritten document found in the "Acts of the Southwest Territory." It is dated September 27, 1794 and signed by Governor William Blount and Secretary David Wilson.
"An Ordinance for Circumscribing the Counties of Greene and Hawkins and Laying Out Two New Counties" is the first resolution appearing in the bound collection of acts passed by the Southwest Territory. The act is written in script and is four pages...
