This is a copy of a manuscript by Charles G. Davis. It is his first-person story of being an imprisoned Union soldier who escaped during the Civil War. He escaped with four other men, and they traveled on foot for thirty-one days behind Confederate lines to Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jacob Vanscoy was an enlisted man in Company D, 12th Indiana Infantry. This collection consists of copies of letters written by Jacob Vanscoy at Grand Junction, Tennessee, to his father and mother.

This collection consists of three indentures signed by Gabriel Blackburn. The first indenture, dated January 9, 1796, is in the amount of $67.72 to John Johnston. The second and third indentures are dated August 6, 1796 for the amount of $400 and $200.

This collection consists of a transcribed copy of a statement of payroll for the men who served as officers and soldiers in Evan's Battalion under the 1786 Act of the Assembly of North Carolina. The statement book documents shortages in men by death, additions by enactments, substitutions, promotions, and payment in land. This record book was found at the North Carolina Military Warrants, Land Office at the State Archives in Nashville, Tennessee.