Letter written on United States Sanitary Commission stationery. Misemer states that he has been absent 6 months from the Federal lines while he was in Cahaba Prison in Alabama. He compares it to Purgatory. He goes on to state that all the boys from...
Misemer writes that officers are riding around the camp telling soldiers that they will be paroled and of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Richmond. He also says that he has heard that two of his comrades have come from Andersonville and are doing...
Summary of 1912 health report for Gallatin written by the City Health Officer, Dr. W. N. Lackey. The report statistically addresses mortality rates and births and provides a partial breakdown by sex, race, and age. It examines causes of death,...
View of the Hygiene and Education Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The top of the Giant See-Saw may be seen in the top left corner of the photograph.
