Letter from James Thomas to Mr. John E. Morris of Hartford, Connecticut, regarding business and his service as First Lieutenant of Company F, 47th Regiment North Carolina Infantry during the Civil War.
Letter from Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, from Headquarters, Camp Fredericksburg. Reporting casualties and outcome of Dranesville. Report comes from Major John S. Mosley.
Federal direct tax receipt paid by David Purvines to the Federal government as tax levied on "insurrectionary districts within the U.S. for other purposes approved June 7, 1862."
Parole of William P. Willilams, private Co 48th North Carolina regiment of Cooks Brigade. The document states that he was a paroled prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. It gives him permission to return to his house and remain...
"Psalms and Hymns adapted to social, private and public worship in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church." The book was published in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1859.
Certificate of discharge from the Army of Tennessee for David A. Hickerson, a private in Captain James H. Lewis's Company C, 2nd Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry. At the time of discharge, he was 26 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, fair complexion, gray...
Field commission for William C. Nutt, promoted from private to Brevet 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 48th Tennesee Infantry Regiment. Nutt was elected 2nd Lieutenant on January 15, 1864. The commission certified the passing of the officer's...
Account of the Battle of Shiloh written by William T. Rasbury (born 1914) who was about 75 or 80 years old when it was written. His great aunt, Lydia Catherine Rasbury, told him the story.
Account of the Battle of Fort Donelson written by William T. Rasbury (born 1914). The story was told to him by his great grandfather, John Allen Walker.
Letter from John A. Hickerson, Company B, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, C. S. A., to his father John D. Hickerson. The letter is the first he wrote to his father after enlisting. The author describes his movements from Arkansas to Knoxville and back. The...
The letter is written on paper with the letterhead "The War for the Union" with an eagle. It expresses fond affection from Martha to William, a soldier in Company C, 48th Tennessee Infantry Regiment.
