Letter from Maj. Gen. Breckinridge (through his adjutant Lt. Col. John A. Buckner) to Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in LaVergne requesting that a cavalry unit under Capt. Atkinson report to Columbia.
Appointment of Capt. Zina B. Chatfield to 6th Miss. Inf., Vols. of African Descent, Sept. 7, 1863. Chatfield is to report to Col. Absalom S. Smith, 6th Miss. Inf., Vols. of African Descent.
Ordnance [sic] report for Co. A, 11th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. The report appears to be written on the back of a court case file, an example of reusing paper at hand. The report is filed and signed by Ordinance Seargent G. C. Perdew. The list...
Medical examination report for the discharge of T. H. Freeman. After examination by Jno. Gleaves, Surgeon for the 45th Tennessee Volunteers, Freeman was found "incapable of performing the duties of his office." Freeman suffered from a "protracted...
Letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, from Headquarters, Camp Fredericksburg. Reporting casualties and outcome of Dranesville. Report comes from Major John S. Mosley.
Bolton was from the Kingsport, Tennessee, area and served in the Co. E, 61st Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A. The donor also provided Bolton's narrative report and memoirs.
This information from the Bureau of Agriculture, Mines, and Statistics communicates on a county-by-county basis (though not all counties are profiled) a kind of manufacturing census for the State of Tennessee. By including the manufacturer name,...
Summary of 1912 health report for Gallatin written by the City Health Officer, Dr. W. N. Lackey. The report statistically addresses mortality rates and births and provides a partial breakdown by sex, race, and age. It examines causes of death,...
One sheet of charts and enumerations listing the number of officers, men, and musicians from the 26th Ohio that were killed, wounded, or missing in the Battle of Chickamauga, September 19- 20, 1863. The report was prepared September 26, 1863.
Five-page letter written from John S. Brien in Nashville, Tennessee, to R. M. C[ornin], Esq. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The author expresses his views on secession, the Union, and Southern Rights as well as his hope for compromise. Says Brien, " I...
Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
Correspondence; Fathers; Children; Families; Mothers; Civil Wars; War
Correspondence from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samiel R. Latta. In this four-page letter, she expresses concern for the safety of her husband. She states that she is "beginning to feel the terrible realities of war in earnest now."
Pages 15 through 24 of a pamphlet containing diary entries from Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield with regard to the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum that she founded. Mrs. Canfield observed the efforts of Rev. I. J. Hoile with the colored schools of the...
Three page extract of written questions posed to leaders and teachers assoicated with various benevolent societies working for the Freedmen Department.
This geological map of three Tennessee counties (Davidson, Williamson, and Maury) shows main waterways, county seats and towns, main roads, geographical identifications, and transversal sections of the land. Williamson County is outlined in red,...