Letter from Milo B. Stevens & Company attorney asking Lavina Bird, widow of David Bird, for additional support for her widow's pension application. Mrs. Bird's application was rejected by the War Department because she could not substantiate his...
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...
llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
Steel engraving depicting President Andrew Johnson, new members of his Cabinet, and other influential members of the U.S. Government. The twelve individuals depicted include Rep. Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Sen....
Form No. 3 offers two pages of information, both printed and handwritten, providing a record of the death and interment of a Federal soldier who died at a Federal military hospital. The document includes data from the hospital surgeon, the post...
One-page printed form noting packages and contents, such as coils of rope, cases of saws, barrels of linseed oil, et cetera. Invoice of stores delivered by S. H. Stevens to W. A. Wainwright, via Steamer Mercury, from Smithland, Kentucky, to...
Deliveries from Steamer Pioneer and Steamer Colossus from H. Shoals, Tennessee, are recorded on the same printed form. Their cargo is mostly iron and brass.