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  • Scopes Trial Spectators on the Courthouse Lawn
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    Courthouses; Spectators; Signs (Notices)
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    People gathered outside the courthouse listening to the Scopes trial proceedings from speakers. A sign says, "Read Your Bible."
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Political cartoon, "The Tailor and Rail-Splitter Mending the Union"
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    Presidents; Vice presidents; Political cartoons; caricatures
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    Political cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson seated on a world globe, stitching together a map of the United States, with Abraham Lincoln using a "rail-splitter" to reposition it.
  • Andrew Johnson Collection
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  • Letter saying he is the oldest in his platoon
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    Three-page handwritten letter by Christopher Ammons to his family in which he states that he is now the oldest member of his platoon. He is destined next for a mission between Highway 13 (Thunder Road) and the Song Be River. Ammons relates the...
  • Chistopher D. Ammons
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  • Letter from Sgt. Thomas G. Taylor
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    Addressed to "Ann," Taylor of Co. B, 10th DeMoss' Cav. Regt., part of Gen. N. B. Forrest's command, writes of skirmishing with "Yanks" outside Tullahoma saying that "they can never whip us." He also writes: "tell all the negroes howdy that don't...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Letter from Sgt. James R. Burton to his parents
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    Sgt. James R. Burton, Co. A, 19th Ky. Inf., USA, wrote to his parents James and Elizabeth Burton from Louisiana in a camp near Vicksburg, Miss. He wants to know people at home are saying about "poly ticks in our country" because heard that people...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Letter from J. S. Harrison to wife
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    Letter to "Dear Dear Wife" (J. E. Harrison), written by a soldier in Wartburg, saying that he is in good health and spirits. Harrison describes the difficulty of marching "day and knight," once going "20 miles on one of those tramps stopping only...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Correspondence from R. M. Rhea to G. R. Rutledge, June 14, 1864
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    Civil Wars; War; Correspondence
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    Letter from Robert M. Rhea to G. R. Rutledge recounting the details of the death of Robert Rutledge at Drury's Bluff, Virginia.
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Correspondence from Jane Smith Washington to William L. Washington, December 18, 1864
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    Civil Wars; War; Correspondence
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    Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Correspondence from Elisha W. Harris to George Carroll Harris, May 4, 1861
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    Civil Wars; War
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    Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • "The Smelling Committee," illustration by John Cameron
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    Political cartoons; Presidents
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    llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
  • Andrew Johnson Collection

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