One-page printed and handwritten abstract of provisions form, submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, for subsistence stores sold to officers...
This map illustrates the railroad routes of the United States and Canada that were in operation and in progress circa 1864. State boundaries and state capitals are shown. An inset in the lower right corner features the area covered by Pacific...
Prisoners of war; Soldiers; Guards; Military camps; Campfires; Smoke; Trees
Image of captured Confederates on an island erroneously labeled near Bridgeport, Tennessee; the location is near Bridgeport, Alabama. The site is at the current CSX Bridge 122.6 over the Tennessee River Slough. Several clashes took place here due...
One-page printed and handwritten Board of Trade affidavit represents the oath of Joseph Ambrose that the supplies for which he requests transportation are a requirement for his family in Nashville and will be used solely for that purpose. Surveyor...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front view of Bucks Chapel School in Crockett County. This wooden building is constructed of unpainted horizontal boards. Two slender cut tree trunks support the front porch.
Certificate of provisions from John T. Humphreys certifying receipt of items from the subsistence stores for use by the officers in the company. The items listed include beef, bacon, flour, meal, rice, sugar, vinegar, soap, salt, candles, and...
Certificate issued by Judge Advocate Gray certifying that Lieutenant Colonel John E. McGowan was in attendance of the General Courts-martial from June 14 to July 26, 1865, in accordance with Special Order No. 127.
Letter ordering an officer to go with a guard of one non-commissioned officer and six men in order to take charge of a passenger train on the Rome Railroad; the letter includes additional instructions. An example of the form to be kept is...
One-page handwritten consolidated abstract of provisions form submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of the 75th Indiana Infantry, reflecting subsistence stores sold to officers in the...
Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband Samuel details news of their children and other family members. References are made to a scarcity of food and civilian transportation and rumors of battle. Mary proclaims her hope that her...
John Sanford Barker was born July 8, 1827, in Monroe County, Tennessee, the son of Burrell and Elizabeth Barker. He was a veteran of the Union Army, serving from September 1864 through June 1865 under Capt. Charles A. Pickens in Co. A, 5th Regt....
Form No. 18 certifying the costs of travel and pay for Lieutenant Colonel John E. McGowan to attend the court-martial of S. R. K. Patton as ordered by Special Order No. 127. Payment totalled $40.85.
Centennial Park, showing the construction process and a general view of Lake Watauga and Lily Lake. The Auditorium, Parthenon, Flagstaff, Administration Building, Commerce Building, and Transportation Building are pictured. Scaffolding is erected...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67101 for Angeline Taylor, refugee, to travel from Knoxville to Jonesboro, Tennessee. Taylor was 10 years old and was going to live with her mother. The order includes a letter to W. A. Wainwright at the Freedmen's...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67108 for Mary Phinny and child, destitute refugees, to travel from Knoxville to New Market, Tennessee. Phinny was "here on a begging excursion and wishes to get home where she has four little children." The order...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67122 for Antony DeGraft, destitute soldier, who had been robbed of his money and is unable to purchase food or lodging. The order permits him to travel from Knoxville to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and includes a letter...
Individual Transportation Order, September 28, 1865, for Gains Brooks; Sarah, his wife; and two daughters (refugees) with a letter detailing Brooks' imprisonment after trying to cross the Cumberland Gap to reach Federal forces, the family's move...
Inventions; Soldiers; Prisoners; Signaling; Water carriers; Shelters; Artillery (Weaponry); Equipment; Carts & Wagons; Military camps; Tents
Fifteen images illustrating the imaginative way that Civil War soldiers tackled a variety of transportation, housing, equipment, and survival issues. Engravings on the back of the page appeared in Frank Leslie's post-war volume "The Soldier in Our...
Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Arms & armament; Gas masks; Military vehicles; Armored vehicles; Tanks (Military science); Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918;
A member of the American Expeditionary Force walks in front of a supply tank at Caution Paddock (near Villeret). He appears to have a cigarette in his mouth. "GRIFF" is written on front of the tank. The faint image of a person in a knee-length...
One-page printed Form No. 5 includes categories for horses; mules; oxen; wagons; ambulances; carts; ships; schooners; sloops; steamers; boats and barges; and skiffs and batteaux in the possession of William Alonzo Wainwright, Assistant...