One-page form. It includes a description of the horse, which was sold in accordance with orders at public auction on April 16, 1864. The horse, No. 210, is 16 hands high, age 9, and has bay coloring.
Letter from C. J. High, Quartermaster General's Department, Confederate States of America, to J. B. O'Bryan informing him that accounts and vouchers have been received for disbursements on account of pay of the army for the first quarter of 1864.
Duplicate form representing an official contract recorded in the Freedman Employment Office in Louisville, Kentucky, between an employer and a freedman. A specific period of employment is outlined, along with provisions for quarters and medicines,...
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front and side views of Fayetteville City Elementary School in Lincoln County. The wooden building has unique architecture that includes a clapboard top story and a walk-in stone basement.
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William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the "New Falls at Tivoli." The three segemented falls are pictured in the foreground, surrounded by wooded hillsides near Tivoli. Strickland gives a brief history of the falls.
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the Sepulchre or Tomb of Caecilia Metella. The sketch shows part of the Appian Way. Strickland gives a short description of the tomb.
Railroads; Railroad construction & maintenance; Construction; Embankments
A pen and ink sketch of a transverse view of an embankment on the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows Strickland's descriptions of the details used in the erection of railroad embankments.
William Strickland's sketch of a steam locomotive belonging to the Great Western Railway. Included are Strickland's written dimensions and details concerning the steam engine.
William Strickland's sketch of the wheel and flange of the Great Western Railway. The sketch shows details of the metalwork used in securing the rails. Dimensions of the various bolts and nuts are shown.
William Strickland's sketch of the ground plan of framings used in the construction of the Great Western Railway. Strickland provides dimensions of the structural frame.
Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Arms & armament; Firearms; Rifles; Horses; Carts & wagons; Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918; Mules
Members of the 105th Regiment Engineers seek shelter from enemy shell fire under the protection of a high bank. This party came under range of German guns while proceeding into St. Martin-Reviere & were forced to seek protection.
Soldiers; Military uniforms; Campaigns & battles; Howitzers; Cannons; Artillery (Weaponry); World War, 1914-1918
Group of American soldiers in the process of loading a howitzer. There is a sign on a tree that reads: "7th Bty Howitzer Regt CAC" indicating this group to be a part of the Seventh Battery Howitzer Regiment of the Coastal Artillery Corps.
