Abstract of provisions issued from the 1st day of November 1862 to the 1st day of December 1862 to sick in hospital. Wainwright notes that he compared the specifics for subsistence actually required in hospital.
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Communication by Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, stating his support for the adoption of a Constitutional amendment to ban slavery in the United States.
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...
Military vehicles; Trucks; Balloons; Propaganda; Military personnel; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Uniforms; Helmets; Campaigns & battles; War; Balloon ascensions; Communication devices; War allies; World War, 1914-1918
Image features British troops in a field gathered around military trucks containing tanks of inflating gas. American propaganda materials are being suspended from small air balloons that will convey them to German soldiers. In the photo, one...
Medal, actually a name tag rather than medal, that was ordered after the war for use during Confederate reunions. Served as W. H. Edwards, Co. E, 9th Battalion, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry, CSA.
One-page printed and handwritten Board of Trade affidavit represents the oath of J. N. Rhodes that the stationery supplies that he requires for his retail business in Nashville will be used for approved purposes and that he is a loyal citizen. The...
One-page printed and handwritten Board of Trade affidavit represents the oath of R. G. Page that the dry goods supplies that he requires for his retail business in Nashville will be used for approved purposes and that he is a loyal citizen. The...
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of a group of prisoners who are passing time by playing cards. They are sitting next to a heating stove that, according to Mitchener, has a six-foot radius. He writes,"There's at...
Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
Maps; Statehood; Cities & towns; Rivers; Bodies of water; Indian encampments
This color map reflects twenty "States of America." Though each of the twenty states is marked with a Roman numeral, the map actually reflects an earlier period in the nation's history with its labelling of territories, Indian tribes, and East...
