Lorenzo "Jack" Sanders of Cross Plains kept this diary. He was in Company K, 30th Infantry, Tennessee Volunteers, and was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson. The date span appears to be 1863-1864. Author died on May 27, 1925.
Benjamin Eaves, 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, (5th East Tennessee Volunteers). Fought in Battle of Murfreesboro, Big Black River, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. He died in 1913 and his wife, Mahala, died in 1892.
Letter from Lick Creek, Tenn., from John Ray Moss to his wife Nancy concerning his health and his hopes to receive a letter from home soon. Moss served in Co. I, 43rd Tenn. Infantry (5th East Tenn. Volunteers), CSA. The letter includes an image of...
Born 1837 in McMinn County, Tennessee, died 1867 in McMinn County. He was in the 43rd Infantry, East Tennessee Volunteers, Gillespie's Regiment. It was organized December 14, 1861, and mustered out May 9, 1865.
Wax drawing of Union veteran, Newton Worth Narramore, Company E, 6th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Narramore was from Bledsoe County and is buried at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Dunlap, Tennessee.
Letter from John Ray Moss to his wife, Nancy Forgey Moss. Moss served in Co. I, 43rd Tenn. Infantry (also called the 5th East Tenn. Volunteers), CSA. Moss is writing from Vicksburg to tell his wife that he is safe and hopes she is the same.
Dishcharge papers for Newton Worth Narramore, Company E, 6th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Narramore enlisted on August 11, 1864. He was wounded (shot in the leg) and discharged on June 13, 1865, in Nashville. Narramore was from...
Hand-drawn map of West Tennessee executed by B. J. Radford, cartographer with 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th (?) Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Col. L. F. Ross. Notation on back that map had been shown to Carl Sandburg. Official Records, Series...
Clothing accounts for 1st Sergeant W. Clinton Lewis, Sergeant Charles Thompson, and Sergeant Norman McLeod all of Company G, 60th Regiment, New York Volunteers.
.58 caliber, cap-and-ball muzzle loader made by gunsmith around 1849 in Townsend, Tennessee. Used by Adam Wilson (1841-1919). He carried it throughout the Civil War. The brass trigger guard possibly made out of brass candle stick. Wilson was a...
Washington County, New York General Affidavit in the matter of a pension claim of Amos P. Ingrohaus stating that his son, John H. Ingrohaus, was not killed in the Battle of Fair Oaks. John Ingrohaus was a member of Company l, 96th Regiment N. Y....
Document dated July 30th, 1863, assigning Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield as Orderly Sgt., 12th La. Inf. Regt., Vols. of African Descent. Signed by T. S. Binert, Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Chatfield had been...
Orders issued by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant appointing Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield of Co. A, 4th Regt., Minn. Inf. Vols., USA, Orderly Sgt., in the 12th Regt. of Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent. Signed by John Aaron Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant...
Discharge of service for Capt. Zina B. Chatfield, 6th Miss. Regt., Vols. of African Descent. Issued at Headquarters, Dept. of the Tennessee, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 5, 1863. Zina Bradley Chatfield (1828-1923)
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.
