Letter from Confederate soldier Daniel Alexander Huffman to his sister about life at camp and military training, August 9, 1861
Huffman, Daniel Alexander, 1831View Full Item in Private CollectionLetter from Daniel Alexander Huffman, August 9, 1861, Camp Clark, Union City, Tennessee. The letter was written to his sister, Elizabeth Huffman Rayburn and his brother-in-law Lark (Larkin) Rayburn. T…
Service record for Jackson McCurtain, a Choctaw man who enlisted with the Confederate 1st Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles in 1861
War Department. The Adjutant General's Office. 3/4/1907-9/18/1947View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceTintype portrait of Confederate Private Robert A. Cheatham, who served in Company C, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPvt. Robert A. Cheatham served in Co. C, 1st Tenn. (Feilds') Inf. Regt., CSA, during the Civil War. Based on the uniform, it is an early war image, unusual for the 'C' on his cap. Calvert, a Nashville…
Carte de visite of William Ferguson of Tennessee in a Union officer uniform
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThis soldier is identified as William Ferguson from Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee. No mention of a William Ferguson serving as an officer appears in the muster rolls. It is possible that he w…
Union soldier Johannes Lefevre’s Civil War pocket chess-board, 1862
View Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetRectangular folding paper chess set, with small oval shaped paper pieces and a cloth case hardcover. Board is off white, with blue and white squares surrounded by a red border with blue stripes along…
Circular from the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office communicating Dorothea Dix’s role as Superintendent of Women Nurses, July 14, 1862
United States. Surgeon-General's Office, Hammond, William Alexander, 1828-1900View Full Item in U.S. National Library of MedicineCaption title "William A. Hammond, Surgeon General." "July 14, 1862." Pertaining Dorothea Dix being in charge of nurse distribution Will digitize Condition reviewed
Confederate States of America pass granting permission to soldier W. M. Cox to visit “East Tennessee at Pleasure,” October 1862
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPass granting permission to W. M. Cox to visit "East Tennessee at Pleasure" provided he does not "communicate in writing, or verbally, for publication any fact ascertained, which, if known to the enem…
Civil War brass-handled saber-bayonet used by soldiers in battle
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPrussian-made, brass-handled saber-bayonet with "PDL" engraved in a stipled cartouche at base of blade. This was made for the Colt repeating rifle.
Letter from Union soldier James Thitchener to his friend Phil about the difficulties of army life, November 8, 1862
Thitchener, JamesView Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetJames writes to his friend Phil about the difficulties of army life. He has been marching for three weeks straight though serious weather conditions. One night the troops had to camp right down in the…
Letter from Union soldier James Thitchener to his aunt about how lucky he is to be alive after the Battle of Fredericksburg
Thitchener, JamesView Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetJames writes about how lucky he is to be alive after returning from battle. He refers to it as it the worst sight he’d ever seen and comments on the women and children who had to run to save their liv…
Memoir by Adelaide Smith titled Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
Smith, Adelaide W., 1831View Full Item in University of CaliforniaLetter from Meeker Griffin to his father and mother about illness in his company, December 26, 1862
Griffin, MeekerView Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetMeeker and his company are now at the new barracks which are almost completed. His company has lost men due to small pox and other diseases. A funeral procession took place which Meeker commented on a…
Metal canteen used by Union soldiers during the Civil War
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThis metal canteen was used by Federal soldiers during the Civil War. It was found at the DeMoss-Carter house at Bellevue, west of Nashville.
Book of the letters of nurse Cornelia Hancock, who cared for wounded Union soldiers on the front lines
Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1926View Full Item in University of MichiganMap on t.-p. The originals of these letters are in the William L. Clements library of Americana.
Service record for Chupco Tustunug, who enlisted with the Confederate Second Creek Mounted Volunteers in 1863
War Department. The Adjutant General's Office. 3/4/1907-9/18/1947View Full Item in National Archives at Washington, DC - Textual ReferenceDescription of provisions issued to the Confederate troops at Camp Wright, Shelbyville, Tennessee, May 31, 1863
Confederate States of America -- Army -- Subsistence BureauView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesAbstract of provisions issued to the troops of the Confederate States of America Artillery of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk's Corps by the Commissary of Subsistence at Shelbyville, Tennessee. Docum…
Travel pass to permit Union soldier Charles Sanford Derland to visit Greencastle, Pennsylvania, to find horses that strayed, August 26, 1863
Morrow, B. Mortimer, 1835-1867View Full Item in Private CollectionHandwritten pass dated August 26, 1863, to permit Charles Sanford Derland to visit Greencastle, Pennsylvania to find horses that strayed. Signed by B.M. Morrow, Major commanding 1st Battalion, 22nd Pe…
Letter from Confederate soldier David Fentress to his wife Clara describing the impacts of sickness and desertion, August 28, 1863
View Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsTranscript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara describing the toll that sickness has taken on the Confederate troops; troop movements; demoralized troops deserting and going home; his pe…
Civil War-era bone saw used for amputation
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesCivil War era amputation saw.
List of Hospital Returns, 19th Maine Regiment, Sep 1, 1863
Adjutant GeneralView Full Item in Maine State ArchivesRecords for soldiers in the 19th Maine Regiment in hospitals in the Washington, D.C. area, Harper's Ferry, and Virginia. Records include soldier's name, company, regiment, residence, name of hospital…
Report from the 75th Indiana Infantry detailing twenty-eight civilian employees, mostly “colored,” that are owed pay, December 1863
United States -- Army -- Quartermaster's DeptView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesReport submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry. This monthly departmental form,designated No. 8, names twenty-eight civilian employees…
Order from Confederate General James Longstreet directing the men to endure reduced rations and other hardships, December 16, 1863
Confederate States of America -- Adjutant and Inspector General's OfficeView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesOrder from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of…
Photograph of the Union prison camp for Confederate soldiers in Elmira, New York, 1864
New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual InstructionView Full Item in New York State ArchivesElmira prison camp during the Civil War. Barracks in Elmira were converted to hold prisoners of war in 1864, largely due to their proximity to major railroads.
U.S. Army order describing the proper rations of various foods for each soldier, July 8, 1864
United States -- War Dept -- Adjutant-General's OfficeView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesGeneral order No. 226 issued from E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States Army, describing the proper ration of pork, soft bread, hard bread, beans, vegetables, rice, vinegar,…
Memoir by Emma Edmonds about her experiences as a nurse, spy, and scout for the Union Army, 1864
Edmonds, S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn), 1841-1898View Full Item in Harvard UniversityList of needed supplies by soldier for Company F, 1st New York Volunteer Veterans Cavalry, September 15, 1864
View Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsList of needed supplies of jackets, pants, drawers, shirts, blouses, socks, boots, blankets, ponchos, hats, caps, canteens, etc. [2] p. ; 31 x 20 cm.
Tintype photograph of an unidentified group of Confederate soldiers, 1865
Waveland State ShrineView Full Item in University of KentuckyAfrican American soldier Richard Oliver’s certificate of death and pension details, 1865
View Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetOfficial papers concerning the death of Richard Oliver including Ann Oliver's battle to receive her widow's pension.
Report on the loss of lives from both the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War, 1901
Livermore, Thomas L. (Thomas Leonard), 1844-1918View Full Item in University of California"This volume has grown from an essay which was read before the Military historical society of Massachusetts, February 23, 1897."-- Pref.