Maps; Rivers; Cities & towns; Streams; Surveying; Land grants
Map showing ranges, counties, streams, some roads, and county seats of the First Surveyor's District of Tennessee in the early 1800s. The Tennessee River appears at the western edge of the map. The counties of Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner,...
One-page handwritten ordnance abstract form, designated No. 3, which conveys by date, certificate number, quantity, and class the ordnance lost during the fourth quarter of 1864 for which Captain R. H. M. Donnelly of Company D, 13th Tennessee...
Printed and handwritten one-page Form No. 27, List of Quartermaster's Stores, has been altered by Lieutenant Wingate T. Robinson to reflect a transfer of serviceable and unserviceable horses from his Commander, Captain E. W. Bass of Company K, 5th...
A piece torn from a black and white two-sided propaganda leaflet conveys the surrender of a Viet-Cong soldier on the front with text and leaflet number (246-131-68) on the reverse.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Boxing
Two members of Civilian Conservation Corps Camp 496 battle each other in a boxing ring on camp grounds, as camp spectators gather around the ring to watch.
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
Monthly report of the Confederate Provost Marshal of the Georgia District providing numbers of officers and privates for each division in his district and statistics for individuals charged with offenses. Categories include drunkenness (officers...
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...
Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel R. Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, conveys her sorrow at his leaving home to fight for the Confederacy. She is deeply concerned for his wife and children. Beck, a teacher in Fayette...
One-page handwritten form, designated Form No. 33, Voucher for Abstract G, reflects the requisition for a month's forage for one private horse in the service of the Confederate States Army, along with the receipt or voucher information indicating...
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,...
A "Huey" (designation UH-1) helicopter in flight is photographed from another helicopter. The Huey is flying over a rural area of Vietnam including a network of roads and green cultivated fields, some filled with water.
Helicopters; Military personnel; Soldiers; Mountains
A Huey helicopter lands on a pad at Vung Chua Mountain, throwing up a great quantity of dust. Fences, buildings, and communication equipment can be seen in the background. Note: a non-color-corrected master TIFF copy is also available.
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...
This map shows land areas designated for Indians emigrating west of the Mississippi River and the location of Indians already established west of the Mississippi. Some of the emigrating Indian nations include Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and...
