Contract between Castor Sawyer of Williamson County (Tenn.) and Freeman Green in which Sawyer agreed to furnish land to Green for cultivation while Green is obligated to give Sawyer one-third of his agricultural output.
Double-sided, one-page printed Form No. 4 contains handwritten information about the soldier's service, his description, and any pay or compensation that is due to him upon his discharge from service. This certificate of accounts also functions as...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his father. Teague discusses whether or not he should purchase land. He states that if his father wants to buy the land he will furnish him sixty dollars. Teague served as a messenger with the 9th Tenn. Vol. Cav....
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Caricatures of Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Adolph Hitler of Germany, and Benito Mussolini of Italy are employed in this Tennessee State Guard promotion to remind Murfreesboro Daily News Journal readers that American apathy and "laying down on the...
Thirty-day pass granting Pvt. Thomas J. Watkins, Co. H, 4th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, a leave of absence to visit his home in Arkansas. The Quartermaster was to furnish transportation by order of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell and Asst. Adj. Gen. T. O....
Thirty-day pass granting Pvt. Thomas J. Watkins, Co. H, 4th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, a leave of absence to visit his home in Arkansas. The Quartermaster was to furnish transportation by order of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell and Asst. Adj. Gen. T. O....
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
