Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...
Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband Samuel details news of their children and other family members. References are made to a scarcity of food and civilian transportation and rumors of battle. Mary proclaims her hope that her...
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...
Letter from Robert A. Rutledge to Mary Minerva Rutledge concerning the climate and his living conditions, provisions, and financial situation. He attempts to dissuade his father from visiting him at the camp but expresses his weariness of the war...
Letter from Robert Rutledge to G. R. Rutledge describing the state of his current encampment near his Uncle Sam and Aunt Elzira's property. He explains that due to pillaging by the army the local population now despises the Confederate army almost...
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...
Journal of Charles Newell Hammond (1835-1891). Hammond served with Co. F, 96th Ill. Vol. Inf. Regt., USA. The journal provides an account of the company's rations and expenses as well as his personal account of the mundane events of camp life. On...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Five uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are seated as they eat their barbecue in the Clarksville Armory. The meal was served following the military program staged at the facility by the 2nd Regiment of the Tennessee State Guard on...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Two young uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are sitting with two young ladies as they all eat and socialize at the Clarksville Armory Barbecue.
