Letter from John Felts who was captured at Fort Donelson and was imprisoned at Camp Butler, Illinois. He wrote to W. H. Felts of Springfield, Tennessee, describing his illness and expressing a desire to leave the camp soon.
Letter from John R. Ross to his father, Green H. Moss, on the back of the letter to his wife. Letter concerns his father's health and hopes in receiving a letter from home.
Letter from Lick Creek, Tenn., from John Ray Moss to his wife Nancy concerning his health and his hopes to receive a letter from home soon. Moss served in Co. I, 43rd Tenn. Infantry (5th East Tenn. Volunteers), CSA. The letter includes an image of...
Letter from John Ray Moss to his wife, Nancy Forgey Moss. Moss served in Co. I, 43rd Tenn. Infantry (also called the 5th East Tenn. Volunteers), CSA. Moss is writing from Vicksburg to tell his wife that he is safe and hopes she is the same.
Letter concerns his health and getting fat on bull beef and biscuits. He also states that there is "no whiskey up here that is fit for a hog to drink." Letter includes drawing of a house with a bell and flag that Ross was going to build his wife...
Letter from Mrs. James G. Moss who was writing to J. R. Moss Jr. concerning the death of her husabnd, James G. Moss, who died at a Confederate Home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
Frame including photograph of James A. Cook and his wife Kate; an account from Confederate States of America for damages to James Cook for $6,368; a letter confirming account information is correct; and a form No. 13 from the Confederate States of...
A sergeant in Co. H, 61st Tennessee Mountain Infantry, CSA. Born January 11, 1836. Died October 15, 1864. In the letter Bartlett writes of missing his wife and children and the need for stamps so that they can write to one another.
Givens, an Assistnt Surgeon attached to 1st Division, writing from the Rains House in Nashville, Tenn. on December 18, 1864, describing the aftermath of Battle of Nashville and his treatment of wounded troops.
Letter from Githens at field hospital near Chattanooga, Tennessee on October 7, 1863, describing his treatment of wounded from the Battle of Chickamauga.
Letter from Mary Hull, a lady assisting wounded at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to the Rev. Asa Routh, a Baptist minister and father-in-law of Wiley Bartlett, announcing Bartlett's death the day before (October 14, 1864)
Letter describes witnessing the execution of a man accused of spiking 26 guns at Fort Jackson outside New Orleans and enabling the "Yankeys" to capture New Orleans.
Letter describing his intense desire to get home to wife and children: if he gets back to Tennessee, he will come home no matter what his officers say.
