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Contains 6 Results:

Letter from George H. Grower in Murfreesboro to Jonathan Hale, 1863 May 2

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Speaks of a Mr. Bowen, saying he is imbued with the same impractical and inconsiderate cast of thoughts which seems to have taken possession of the minds of the people of Tennessee and Kentucky.

Dates: 1863 May 2

Printed copy of written testimony by Thomas E. Bremlittle in the case against Champ Ferguson, 1864 April 28

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States that the whole career of that guerrilla Chieftain and his followers has been marked with an unbroken series of murders of inoffensive citizens, of plunder and robbery and destruction of property; and in my judgment, justice and humanity alike require that every one of his followers should be put to the sword whenever and wherever taken.

Dates: 1864 April 28

Blank contract leasing tracts of land to Jonathan Hale for the purposed of boring, mining, and excavating for Petroleum, Coal, Rock or Carbon Oil, or other valuable minerals and valuable substances,, 1865

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Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

The Jonathan D. Hale Collection, 1863-1885, contains records of Hale's career as a Union scout during the Civil War and postmaster at Hale's Mills, Tenn. Included are notes on a legal case against Hale, copies of witness testimonies, and a publication by Hale in which he talks about the death of Charles Sumner, slavery, and the destruction of the South.

Dates: 1865

Blank sheet of stationery from the Post Office Department, Division of Post Office Supplies in Washington, D.C., 1880s

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Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

The Jonathan D. Hale Collection, 1863-1885, contains records of Hale's career as a Union scout during the Civil War and postmaster at Hale's Mills, Tenn. Included are notes on a legal case against Hale, copies of witness testimonies, and a publication by Hale in which he talks about the death of Charles Sumner, slavery, and the destruction of the South.

Dates: 1880s

Manuscript notebooks with legal case notes, undated

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Notes on cases and witness testimonies for two cases: the Lucinda Heldreth case, in which she is seeking compensation for a mare that was impressed for the government by Jonathan Hale in 1865, and the Jane Flowers case, in which her husband, a Unionist, was threatened by Confederate supporters and later killed.

Dates: undated