Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
A team of four mules pulls a wagon along a dirt road in front of three wood frame buildings. A woman and two boys stand in the wagon. An unidentified man sits atop one of the mules.