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  • 301st Tank Battalion
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Tanks (Military Science); Flags
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    Three hundred and first Tank Battalion. America's heavies going into action at Souplet on the morning of October 17, 1918. Note the American flag flying from one of the tanks. St. Souplet, Nord, France.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Wounded from the 27th Infantry Division
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Soldiers; War casualties; Wounds & injuries; Prisoners of war
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    Wounded from the 27th Division, United States Army, being carried to the rear by the aid of German prisoners taken during the drive at Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, October 17, 1918. See "Catalogue of Official A. E. F. Photographs Taken by the Signal Corps,...
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Sixty-pound guns in action
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Soldiers; Artillery (Weaponry); Campaigns & battles
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    Sixty-pound guns in action at Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, October 17, 1918. This British long-range gun will send its projectiles 15,000 yards. Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, France. October 17, 1918. See "Catalogue of Official A. E. F. Photographs Taken by the...
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • British Artillery racing to the front
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Soldiers; Artillery (Troops); Artillery (Weaponry); Horses; Campaigns & battles; Troop movements
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    British Artillery making quick time getting to the front. Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, France. October 17, 1918. Photograph shows soldiers moving artillery in action.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Soldiers examining a mine crater
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Mine warfare; Mines (Warfare); Explosives; Military retreats; Soldiers
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    Huge crater caused by the explosion of mine planted and exploded by the Germans in their retreat before the American troops.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • British Artillery
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    World War, 1914-1918; War; Horses; Artillery (Troops); Arms & armament; Soldiers
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    British Artillery in action at Molain during present operations.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Engineers Putting in a Bridge across the Selle River
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    World War, 1914-1918; Rivers; Engineering; Bridges; War
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    Members of the 105th Regiment Engineers putting in a bridge across the Selle River on the road between Escaufourt & St. Martin-Reviere.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • U.S. Cemetery at Belleau Wood
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    World War, 1914-1918; Cemeteries
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    A graveyard filled with crosses can be seen. The graveyard is surrounded by a fence.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Mine crater
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    War; Mine warfare; Mines (warfare); Explosives; Military retreats; Soldiers; War damage; World War, 1914-1918
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    Huge crater caused by the explosion of mine planted and exploded by the Germans in their retreat before the American troops.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Bridge blown out by Germans
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    War; Bridges; War damage; Military retreats; World War, 1914-1918
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    Bridge blown out by the Germans during retreat from Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, October 17, 1918. Bois St. Pierre, in the district of Souplet and Vaux-Andigny, Aisne, France, October 17, 1918
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  • Letter about meeting a friend from Clarksville in Qui Nhon
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    Letter from Christopher Ammons telling about meeting Thomas Page, a friend from Clarksville, in Qui Nhon. He and Page, a truck driver in the army, had a long conversation. Ammons asks his family to call Page's parents and tell them he is doing...
  • Chistopher D. Ammons
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  • General Order No. 73 from Headquarters District of Tennessee, Nashville
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    General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
  • Civil War Military Records
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  • Lee Sadler's Civil War Veteran Questionaire
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    Questionnaire response of Confederate soldier Lee Sadler, completed in 1922 when he was 79. He states the value of his property and his family's property before, during, and after the war and whether they owned slaves; he comments on the social...
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • W. M. Canada's Application for Admission to Confederate Home
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    W. M. Canada's application to a Confederate Veteran's Home from January 4, 1901. Canada presents proof of his service and wounds obtained during combat in the U. S. Civil War in service of the Confederacy. The application was rejected without...
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Negro enlistment in Union Army
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    Scrap of a military record denoting the first names of negro enlistments in Colored Infantry Regiments. Also mentioned are some officers with the units. The notation of Gallatin and the date of 1863 most probably is associated with the formation...
  • Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
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  • Unveiling sign for "Sergeant York Avenue"
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    Traffic signs & signals; Motion picture premieres; Motion picture theaters; Theaters; Spectators; People; Governors
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    Alvin C. York, his wife Gracie, York familiy members, Gov. Prentice Cooper, and spectators look on as a sign designating 6th Avenue as "Sergeant York Avenue" is unveiled. The scene takes place in front of the Knickerbocker Theatre during the...
  • Alvin C. York
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  • Nannie E. Haskins Diary Excerpts
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    Teenagers; Girls; Civil Wars; War; Battlefields; Rebellions; Campaigns & battles; Cities & towns; Villages
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    Excerpts from a small handwritten diary written by Nannie Haskins, a young girl of Clarksville, Tennessee. Provides an insight into the day to day activities of an observant young girl. Haskins was strongly in support of the Confederacy and loathed...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Wounded soldiers on route to hospital
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    Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Military medicine; Military hospitals; Medical equipment & supplies; Litters; Gas masks; Horses; Campaigns & battles; World War, 1914-1918; War casualties; Carts and Wagons; Mules
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    Members of the 137th Ambulance Co. transport wounded soldiers to the hospital at Camp de Galbert. One mule pulls three carts that are attached to one another in single file.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Wounded and attendants at a first-aid dressing station
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    Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Military medicine; Medical equipment & supplies; Litters; War casualties; Canteens (Beverage containers); Gas masks; Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918; Barbed wire
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    Unidentified members of the American Expeditionary Force transporting a wounded comrade on the field.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Member of Thirtieth Division with supply tank
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    Soldiers; Military personnel; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Helmets; Arms & armament; Gas masks; Military vehicles; Armored vehicles; Tanks (Military science); Campaigns & battles; War; World War, 1914-1918;
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    A member of the American Expeditionary Force walks in front of a supply tank at Caution Paddock (near Villeret). He appears to have a cigarette in his mouth. "GRIFF" is written on front of the tank. The faint image of a person in a knee-length...
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