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This collection consists of the minute book for the Little Doe Church in Johnson County, Tenn., taken between October 1916-November 1918. The book features summaries for the meetings and attendance numbers, as well as expense lists.

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This collection houses a single letter from Daniel Davis to his brother. In it, Davis details his regiment's march from Nashville to Dechard, Tennessee (southeast of Tullahoma, Tennessee.) At that time, the 46th Pennsylvania was detailed to guard sections of the Nashville-Chattanooga Railroad.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In this letter, Amos Guthrie shares his political opinions with his father. He is mostly concerned with Copperheads in his hometown, saying you say that Rumley township will stand a draft well it will be a good thing if only a certain kind would be taken that kind is a copperhead. Private Guthrie also promises to send his father a paper of old Parson Brownlow's [a prominent Knoxville Whig] maufacture. Guthrie also asks his father about family matters, including a lawsuit in which his father...

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This collection houses one letter from George Lewis to his sister, Naracessa Hampton, of Casvade, Virginia. Lewis focuses on the plight of his sister, whose husband was apparently compelled to serve in the Confederate Army. He offers her advice and instructs her to keep her household in good condition.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains a letter from Amos Guthrie to his father in New Rumley Township, Ohio written while Guthrie was stationed in Knoxville, Tennessee. Guthrie attacks Copperheads and specifically complains of New Rumley Township's history of voting for Copperhead officials. Guthrie recounts seeing General Scholfield, saying his hair is already tinged with grey although he is only 35 years old. He goes on to describe the dwindling Union forces in Knoxville as they go home of furlough. He...

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This collection contains a letter written by Amos Guthrie from U. S. General Hospital No. 2, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Guthrie informs his family as to his condition as well as the expected movements of his Corps. He also inveighs against Copperheads.

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In this letter to his sister, Orlando Geer expresses his opinions about news from home and describes the condition of their mutual acquaintances in the army.

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This collection contains two letters from Edgar Arthurs, one to his sister and one to his brother. Both letters were written from Columbia, Tennessee, while his unit was marching from Nashville, Tennessee to Athens, Alabama. Arthurs speaks of the nisecountry. He reports that the soldiers had no problem getting forage, having plenty of melons and apples. He seems to think his regiment have left Nashville this time for good.

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This collection contains one letter written by Ben Mason while he was stationed on the Tennessee-Virginia border in Bristol-Goodson. In the letter, Mason expresses his hope that the regiment remains in Bristol-Goodson over the winter because it suites me better than marching about and lyin out without tents. The regiment was detailed to guard a pork killing station.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This incomplete letter, written by an unknown Union soldier while in Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, during the Civil War, discusses an attack by rebel forces. It also discusses a battle that may occur at any moment. He writes that his unit plans to move on to Rome, Atlanta, or Savannah, and mentions that Burnside and Grant expect to aid them. The soldier also writes of receiving a letter that "brings memories and peace to fill where before was naught but misery and loneliness, and of the...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection consists of an informational guide to the Technical Trade School in Pressmen's Home, Tennessee, an institution operated by the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union in an endeavor to assist in making the printing industry more efficient and prosperous. The guide offers information on the various departments in the school and also contains color and black and white pictures and photographs of the grounds, the buildings, and the school's different types of...

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This collection consists of one leather-bound ledger kept by Luttrell Boyce of Washington and Knox Counties, Tennessee, documenting purchases and other transactions that occurred between 1873 and 1878.