Letter to "Dear, Dear Wife" (J. E. Harrison) written by a soldier from Camp Jackson, 15 miles from Gallatin. The writer is enjoying good health, but wants to see his wife very much. "[I]t want be long till I will come to hold you to my bosem, the...
Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife Mary in Maury County, Tennessee. He writes about his plans to send her $15,000 in U.S. Treasury notes to invest in real estate to curb currency depreciation and insure...
Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife Mary in Maury County, Tennessee. He writes that he has not heard from his wife or children since August. He desires to know whether Mary has received the $15,000 in...
Document representing the oath of allegiance certificate issued to Corporal J. M. Morey of the 32nd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, by the Union Provost Marshal's Office on June 14, 1865. It includes a physical description of the soldier followed by...
Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In...
Correspondence; Fathers; Children; Families; Mothers; Civil Wars; War
Correspondence from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samiel R. Latta. In this four-page letter, she expresses concern for the safety of her husband. She states that she is "beginning to feel the terrible realities of war in earnest now."
