Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
Pvt. G. W. James, Co. H, 12th Tenn. Inf. (later Co. F, 47th Tenn. Inf.) writes to his brother in Gibson County from a camp near Sweetwater, Tenn. He tells of being where the "terrible thunder of cannons & deafening roar of musketry played their...