Social values; Domestic life; Soldiers; Military life; Military personnel; Military organizations; Armies; War; Cities & towns
Letter from Sarah Hamilton to her husband, John Hamilton. She discusees the loss of the property and the slaves. She bemoans: "How long will this unholy war continue?"
Social values; Domestic life; Soldiers; Military life; Military personnel; Military organizations; Armies; War; Cities & towns
Letter from Sarah Hamilton to Thomas Williams. She discusses patients at the war hospital in Columbia, rumors of the Yankees at Franklin and concern for her son, "Tommie."
Certificate to Nashville Banner from Nashville Rotary Club for the first subscription made to the York Farm Fund. The Banner had the honor of "starting the ball rolling" with the donation of $50. Subsequently nearly every Banner employee made an...
Card from Ammons featuring graphic and the text "The Viet Cong are very tricky with booby traps so open this card carefully. On the reverse, Ammons describes weather and patrols around Vung Chua. He describes time he spent teaching two new men...
Three-page letter describes a plane crash on Vung Chua that killed eight South Korean officers. (The plane, still visible on the mountain, and a nearby monument are pictured in Ammons's photos.) No one knows why the plane was so far from the Qui...
Three-page letter written from Dong Tam, final headquarters base camp of the 9th Infantry Division. Ammons describes an air assault in which the platoon was pinned down in knee-deep water under heavy fire by the Viet-Cong. He writes, "The leeches...
A piece torn from a black and white two-sided propaganda leaflet conveys the surrender of a Viet-Cong soldier on the front with text and leaflet number (246-131-68) on the reverse.
A sergeant in Co. H, 61st Tennessee Mountain Infantry, CSA. Born January 11, 1836. Died October 15, 1864. In the letter Bartlett writes of missing his wife and children and the need for stamps so that they can write to one another.
Cpl. Henry Marshall Misemer, Co. F, 3rd Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA, describes in his letter to his wife Martha that he wants to be appointed deputy sheriff of Monroe County, Tennessee, so that he can be discharged from the army. He asks her to burn this...
Scrip money and employment note from the Confederate Iron Works of Washington County (now in Unicoi County), Tenn. Duff Green was the proprietor. Michael Morelock was employed by "Confederate Iron Works, to aid in the manufacture of Iron, etc., for...
A note written in blue by General Leonidas Polk telling James P. Wood to not let the cotton through the railways without his permission so that it would not fall in the hands of the Federal Army. Wood was in charge of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad...
Morris provides his cousins with news of the deaths of his mother and Laura [relationship unstated]. He relates his hardships caused by the war and writes, "Life is the running of a race and Death the goal, so then let us look a head to that time...
Artillery shell fragments from spherical case shot. The shells had hollow balls with fuses so they would explode over target. The fragments were most likely from a 12-lb. Napoleon.
Letter from Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his wife Nancy, written days after his capture on Island No. 10 and imprisonment at Camp Chase, Ohio. He assures his wife he is well and in "comfortable quarters." Of the...
Diary of Louisa Dorothea Swan (1838-1900) of Bradley County, Tenn., describing her experiences during the war. An excerpt from January 3 is especially poignant. She writes: "Never has the desolation around us prayed so heavily on my heart as on...
This sword likely belonged to Col. Alfred Harris Abernathy, 53rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Harris joined the Confederate Army on Dec. 6, 1861, after his brother John died of wounds sustained at the Battle of Cheat Mt., W. Va. Col. Harris surrendered...
B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) McCutchen was a private in Company I, 6th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, C. S. A.. His health deteriorated significantly during the war, prompting him to pay for a replacement to complete his service. In this letter, McCutchen...
