One-page printed and handwritten Confederate invoice form reflecting susbsistence stores delivered by one assistant commissary of subsistence to his counterpart in a Confederate outpost in Shelbyville. Categories of information include type of...
One-page printed and handwritten Confederate ordnance form conveys the number and condition of articles turned in to the ordnance officer. In this case, Captain S. R. Simpson, an assistant quartermaster for the 30th Tennessee Regiment, obtained...
Sharp and Smith manufacturer, Chicago, Illinois. Acquired from a hospital in Philadelphia. Instruments include tourniquet, saws, and scalpels in pristine condition.
These 1886 Average Crop Reports chart the county-by-county acreage, yield, condition, and damage of specific crops and livestock by local Tennessee farmers from April through November and offer them in comparision to the 1885 reports as an average....
Thirteen-page paperback booklet detailing the progress made in the creation of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Also included are maps and photographs of various unit memorials.
This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
This questionnaire from the Ordnance Department requires every officer commanding a company or regiment of cavalry to answer the questions and return the form to the Ordance Office along with their regular quarterly return of ordnance stores.
Two-page letter from J. W. Maybin of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to John S. Brien. The letter requests legal advice from John S. Brien, "one of the first legal minds in the United States," regarding his legal options after having seen much of his...
