This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
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...
Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
Federal troops employing ladders and scaling cliffs at Roper's Rock at the north end of Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga following the Battle of Lookout Mountain.
Pamphlet describing the proceedings of a mass meeting of the 7th Tenn. Cav., Rucker's Brigade, Jackson's Division, CSA. The resolutions expressed by this meeting of officers and enlisted men, despite the short time remaining for hostilities, are...
