"Rag money" was paper currency made from linen and cotton fibers. A "shin-plaster" was printed small change. "Hard money" was coins made of a precious metal. This broadside was attempting to popularize these terms to be used as descriptions of...
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...
Letter from William Templin to his wife Pollyanna Templin and children. W.M. Templin originally enlisted in the Confederate Army in Hawkins County, Tennessee. He was captured and sent to Indiana. He took the oath of allegience and enlisted in Co....
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Members of the 105th Regiment Engineers seek shelter from enemy shell fire under the protection of a high bank. This party came under range of German guns while proceeding into St. Martin-Reviere & were forced to seek protection.
Two-page letter from Arthur H. Harris of Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes of his recruiting expedition and his rifle company, of recruits hankering for action, of George's desire for a chaplaincy, and...
