One-page handwritten consolidated abstract of provisions form submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster and Assistant Commissary of the 75th Indiana Infantry, reflecting subsistence stores sold to officers in the...
One-page printed and handwritten abstract of provisions form, submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, for subsistence stores sold to officers...
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...
Pass granting permission to W. M. Cox to visit "East Tennessee at Pleasure" provided he does not "communicate in writing, or verbally, for publication any fact ascertained, which, if known to the enemy might be injurious to the Confederate States...
Barbed wire; Prisoners; Military personnel; Tree stumps; Trees; Fences
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of two men trying to remove tree stumps from the ground at the prison camp. He has written, "In order that there be parade grounds" on the top of the page. Underneath the drawing,...
War; World War, 1914-1918; Canals; Barracks; Military camps; Officers' quarters; Mess halls
This photograph features the "Dead End" of the Ypres Canal in the foreground of the image. Behind it appears the officers' and noncommissioned officers' billets and the mess hall. The caption reads: "All comforts of home. Roulette, Tea and boating...
Three page letter begins, "This is our eighth day in the boonies, and tomorrow we might go back to Lai Khe." He writes of having been a squad leader for several days now ("8 men including myself") because of the illness of another sergeant.
Two-page letter in which Christopher Ammons describes returning from R&R in Sydney to learn that his units designation had changed from the 194th MP Company to the 61st MP Company. He describes the new operating area and how the changes affect...
Two-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...
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