Letter from Deputy Quartermaster General, to the Honorable A. H. Pettibone, House of Representatives, concerning a constituent's request for repayment. Norman Hayes, of Thornbill, Tenn., requests reimbursement for corn and horses in the amount of...
Sgt. T. J. Doss served in Co. F, 32nd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. He received the Southern Cross of Honor from the Giles Co. 257 UDC and applied for a Confederate pension. At his request, he was buried with his body aligned north-south at New Zion...
Asst. Surgeon Dr. Elihu Pierce, 6th N.H. Inf., and 9th Corps, USA, requested permission to turn in his medical equipment. In his signature, he notes that he was in "charge of sick on 9 A. C. train." On the reverse side, Samuel Adams, Asst. Surgeon...
Letter to Daniel Hoge Bruce, Co. A, 51st Va. Inf., Regt., CSA, from his friend, Addie. At the time of the letter, Bruce was awaiting release from Ft. Delaware Prison. Responding to Bruce's request for a monetary loan, Addie writes, "I regret very...
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of the showers at the POW camp. On the top of the image, he has written, "For 'cleanliness is next to godliness.'" Underneath the drawing, he has mentioned that the shower room is...
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...
One-page handwritten request from St. Cecilia Academy for permission from the Board of Trade to import coal from Cincinnati or Louisville for use in their school.
Index and Opinion from the Tennessee State Supreme Court case regarding the Scopes Trial of July 1925 questioning the teaching of evolution in public schools. The opinion, filed in January 1927, dismissed the case; on a technicality, adding...
This one-page printed and handwritten document that begins as a Form No. 2 requisition conveying a request for camp articles from Lieutenant Colonel C. D. Venable of the 5th Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A., to J. E. Ray, Regimental Quartermaster of the...
This one-page printed form with handwritten entries begins as a Form No. 3 requisition conveying a request for articles of clothing from Captain A. W. Caldwell of the 5th Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A., to J. E. Ray, the Regimental Quartermaster of the...
U.S. Order for Transportation #67122 for Antony DeGraft, destitute soldier, who had been robbed of his money and is unable to purchase food or lodging. The order permits him to travel from Knoxville to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and includes a letter...
