This typed, 5" x 8", two-sided card maintained in the Tennessee Adjutant General's files displays basic biographical and military information concerning Alvin C. York and the awarding of his Medal of Honor. Categories of information are set, and...
One-page printed form lists categories providing a good indication of the diverse responsibilities of the Quartermasters Department. One item of interest listed under "Incidental Expenses (not expressed under any other heading): "Extra duty men at...
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...
Double-sided, handwritten, one-page document lists those prisoners being held by Federal authorities. Those incarcerated include citizens, soldiers who have committed disciplinary infractions, and soldiers being held for possible court-martial.
A handwritten roster of the commissioned officers of the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers. Roster includes name of member, rank, and miscellaneous remarks.
General order issued by Assistant Adjutant General George William Brent condemning the army's wanton destruction of fences, houses, countrysides and other property. Brent describes such action as "unworthy the character of Confederate soldiers,...
Oversize forms providing the list of names of individuals and the jobs they were hired to perform. Forms specify the wide array of services performed by the Quartermaster in Nashville and list "colored employees" specifically and separately. The...
General order No. 5 issued by Governor and Commander-in-Chief Isham G. Harris and Adjutant General W. C. Whitthorne to organize the state's Reserve Military Corps as required by an act of the General Assembly passed March 18, 1862.
This monthly accounting document submitted by Assistant Quartermaster Captain William Alonzo Wainwright details lost and destroyed articles from the quartermaster's stores. This one-page Quartermaster's Department form, designated No. 43, Abstract...
A handwritten roster of commissioned officers mustered into service of the United States. Included is the date of muster, company name, arm of service, where mustered, term of muster, and name and rank of officers. The document is signed by J. R....
List from the U. S. Army Quartermaster of the bridges and trestling destroyed on the Nashville Northwestern Railroad, including bridges to be built or rebuilt, and grading to be done. The list enumerates each item by section and includes length,...
Report to Assistant Quartermaster William Alonzo Wainwright listing the names of seventeen individuals who transported the bodies of soldiers exhumed and reinterred at the Knoxville National Cemetery in December 1867. The report includes the cost...
This is Special Field Order No. 114, issued by General John Hood, relieving Captain J. P. Baltzell from duty at Opelika, Alabama, and assigning him to duty as Provost Marshal at Augusta, Georgia.
Text of general order No. 43 issued by the Quartermaster General's Office in Washington, D. C. ,conveying the rules and regulations with regard to horses and mules. Include blank forms to be used.
Order from General Bragg, issued by Assistant Adjutant General George G. Garner, congratulating the army on its role in the Confederate victory at the Battle of Hartsville and also permitting the corps engaged in that action to bear the name of the...
General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
Receipt for the delivery by Edward Jackson of fourteen bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Amos Dalton of 10 bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in the Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Samuel Jackson of nine bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in the Knoxville National Cemetery.
Receipt for the delivery by Peter Myers of nine bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in Knoxville National Cemetery.
