Front view of the Auditorium at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, which had Colonial style architecture. It had a one-hundred and forty foot high square tower and four porticoes on the corners of the building.
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.
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...
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...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows the continuation from the previous page of a poem written by an African American POW, Hitchcock. Mitchener uses the word "colored" to describe him. The poem is called "Fighter Pilot" and is...
Cover, Department of Defense pamphlet published for soldiers in combat in Vietnam. It provides text, illustrations, maps, and photographs. There are four chapters in the document, along with an appendix providing personal hygiene tips, a table,...
The illustration on page 27 is identified as Figure 12. It is a line drawing illustrating the manner in which Viet-Cong (VC) villages were typically fortified. Labeled on the illustration include the following: tunnels, a booby trap, a man trap, a...
The illustration on page 28 is identified as Figure 13. It is a line drawing of the tunnel complex around Ben Cat. Below the drawing is a textual explanation of the origin of the information (September 1965) and an expanded description of the...
The illustration on page 42 is identified as Figure 25. It features line drawings of a spike trap pit and a spike trap box. Dimensions and features are labeled. This may be a variation of the ditch with punji stakes shown on page 27 of the...
The illistration on page 69 is identified as Figure 36. It is a line drawing representing an entire unit caught in a Viet-Cong (VC) ambush. The schematic is followed by textual directions on the proper military response to this situation.
The illustration on page 70 is identified as Figure 37. It is a line drawing representing part of a unit caught in a Viet-Cong ambush. The schematic is followed by textual directions on the proper military response to this situation.
The illustration on page 71 is identified as Figure 38. It is a line drawing of the recommended military reaction to a Viet-Cong (VC) attack on a hamlet. The schematic is followed by textual directions on the proper military response to this...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows the remainder of the song, "Thanks for the Memoires," which begins on the previous page of the diary. Another song, "Kriege Rations," is also shown. This song makes light of the fact that...
Seven-page letter written by Christopher Ammons recounting a sniper attack on his company the previous day that claimed the lives of four soldiers. While on patrol 6,000 meters southwest of Saigon, Ammons's squad comes under sniper attack, and for...
Letter from Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873) to his daughter, Cornelia, on June 7, 1863, regarding her previous letter and being wounded by a shell on his right leg on May 14, 1863.
Letter from Margaret McClarty Maxwell to her husband, Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873), defending the scarcity and brevity of her previous letters and relaying family news. They had nine children.
Map of Tennessee constructed by John Melish from the surveys of John Strothers and other documents. Shows county lines and Indian boundaries, along with some statistical and geological remarks.
Photograph (copy) taken four months after previous photograph (wash004) of Capt. Aaron Gamble McReynolds, USA, shows the effect of the hardships of war. (This copy accompanies wash001, wash002, wash003.)
