This page features a list of signatures from the "Brass," the POWs who were military officers at Stalag Luft III along with Mitchener. The previous page includes autographs of the other men who were in the POW camp.
Broadside advertising the Brownsville Colored Normal School (Brownsville, Tenn.). The text includes a list of the Board of Managers and the subjects to be taught. It is believed to have been issued during the term of Tennessee Governor William B....
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of the toilet facilities at the camp. On the top of the page, he has written, "The Germans had a name for it. 'Abort' ---" Underneath the drawing, he has written, "Busy Corner (3...
This page includes the contact information for Dorothy [June] Krout. Mitchener has only written,"[L.T.] operator Naval [Base] Atlanta, Ga." The other side of the page is blank except for the printer's information, which reads, "Printed by Atar S....
This page includes contact information that is written in Russian. C.C.C.P. is the Russian abbreviation for U.S.S.R. the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
One-sheet certificate of enlistment for Dennis Morgan, "a Colored man whom W. H. Morgan claims as his slave, April 5, 1864." Certificate includes Morgan's age and physical description, as well as the signature of L. E. Davis, First Sergeant, 17th...
Certificate of parole for Leander H. Russ, a cavalry escort of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, from Camp Chase, Ohio, issued by W. P. Richardson, Commandant of Prisons. The certificate includes a physical description of Russ and a notarized letter...
This is another page of the Christmas program that was given to the POWs at Stalag Luft III in 1944. It includes the lyrics to "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "O Come All Ye Faithful." The program lists carols performed by the "troubador group" on...
This is another page of the Christmas program that was given to the POWs at Stalag Luft III in 1944. It includes a dedication page that reads, "The Senior American Officer extends very cordial season's greetings to all officers and men under his...
List of clothing issued, reportedly to the sergeants of the 1st and 27th Tennessee regiments of the Confederate Army. The form consists of a hand-drawn grid on the pages of a small diary, and the list includes hats, caps, jackets, pants, shirts,...
Collection of items reported to be Civil War relics. The collection includes: 3 cannonball fragments, 1 lock, 3 belt buckles, 1 "three-ringer" bullet, 1 spoon fragment, 1 knife, and fragments of camp lanterns.
Communication from Mrs. E. M. Hayes, wife of the late Oliver B. Hayes, listing thirteen line items including two mares, eighty-four head of sheep, five milk cows, and fifty-five hogs, total value of $3,142.00 dollars, that she claims were pressed...
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...
Letter ordering an officer to go with a guard of one non-commissioned officer and six men in order to take charge of a passenger train on the Rome Railroad; the letter includes additional instructions. An example of the form to be kept is...
Report of the status of the men of the Confederate 154th Senior Infantry Regiment listed by command company. It shows the status of men present: ready for duty, sick, extra duty, or under arrest; it also shows the status of those absent: detached...
William & Sara McDonald's wedding photograph. The couple were married on June 2, 1856. William (1838-1899) joined Co. C, Gantt's 9th Bn., Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA, during the war. He fought at Forts Henry and Donelson (1862). Unlike most at Ft....
