This collection contains correspondence, printed materials, and handwritten notes related to the life of Jonathan D. Hale, a Union scout and postmaster of Hale's Mill, Tennessee. 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.

This collection contains correspondence, printed materials, and handwritten notes related to the life of Jonathan D. Hale, a Union scout and postmaster of Hale's Mill, Tennessee. 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.

Pages 5-12 of this 16-page pamphlet are missing. Talks about the death of Charles Sumner, slavery, and the destruction of the South.

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.

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.

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.