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This handbook, entitled The BA Degree, describes the curriculum in the University of Tennessee's College of Liberal Arts and provides a list of courses that could fulfill each requirement.

This collection houses self-studies, annual reports, and other records documenting the College of Liberal Arts between 1962 and 1987. Among the programs described are the Centers for Excellence, the Graduate School, and the departments of Art, Botany, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, Geology, Germanic and Slavic Languages, History, Microbiology, Music, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Speech and Theater, and Zoology and Entomology.

This collection houses lists of the books, instruments, and supplies required by the University of Tennessee's College of Medicine.

This collection houses records documenting nursing students, the professional nurse trainee program, and other aspects of the University of Tennessee's College of Nursing.

This collection houses a guide to speaking and writing for students of veterinary medicine.

This collection houses projects completed as part of the College Scholars program between 1970 and 2007.

This collection consists of a ledger book dating from 1922 to 1925. The cover is labeled Cash-Book College of Medicine and College of Dentistry U. of T. Its divisions include academic departments (anatomy, biology, chemistry, histology and embryology, etc.), insurance, library, advertising and printing, and other subjects.

This collection consists of a guest book honoring the golden wedding anniversary of Colonel J. W. and Sarah Gaut.

The Colonel Andrew J. Mackay Letters Collection is composed of four letters, three to Mackay and one from Mackay, describing the distribution of supplies for the Army of the Cumberland and the rebuilding of the Chattanooga water works after the Civil War.

The Colonel Andrew J. Mackay Letters, 1863-1864, include letters to and from Mackay in his position as the Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland. The majority of the letters concern troop movements, supplies and shipments.

The two items in the Colonel Andrew J. Mackay Papers, 1863, demonstrate the type of paperwork received through the quartermaster's office. The collection includes account record pages showing items purchased or not received during February 1863 and a letter dated December 15, 1863 outlining the opening of a new coal mine near Kelly's Landing and the want of supplies in the area.

In these July 1861 letters from Colonel Carrick W. Heiskell to his sister and neice, Heiskell discusses his surroundings and experiences in the Cumberland Gap while serving in the 19th Tennessee Confederate Infantry. Heiskell makes specific note of the mountain area, valleys of Tennessee, and an “abundance of rattlesnakes.” He goes on to discuss his readiness for conflict with the enemy in the days ahead, as well as the desertion of a relative soldier to the enemy.

Research material relating to Fay Warrington Brabson's biography of Andrew Jackson published in 1972. Includes a manuscript version of the book, Andrew Johnson, A Life in Pursuit of the Right Course, 1808-1875; correspondence, photographs, research notes, and clippings about Johnson, the Civil War, Greeneville, Tenn., and related subjects; and original letters to and from Johnson, W. G. Brownlow, Thaddeus Stevens, members of the Johnson family and others.

In this document, Colonel Geza Mihalotzy reports that the equipment his men are currently using is unserviceable.

This collection contains prosecution and defense material relating to the Yokohama war crimes trials arising out of the Japanese defeat in World War II.

This collection consists of photographs collected by University of Tennessee student James S. Corbitt. The subjects depicted include the UT campus directly after the Civil War (including the earthworks built for the Battle of Fort Sanders), the 1931 College of Engineering faculty (including Nathan Dougherty and Red Matthews), Ferris Hall, football games on Shields-Watkins Field, and unidentified UT faculty members.

This collection consists of 62 documents showing James Rusling's career as Inspector of the Quarter Master Department. Many of these papers concern allegations of fraud in Chattanooga and efforts to reduce supplies and personnel after the Civil War had ended. A few letters concern Rusling's orders and promotions; the rest deal with receipts, personnel, and inventories.

John Lord Otis wrote this letter to his wife from St. Helens Island, South Carolina on March 5, 1863. In it, he describes his disillusionment with President Lincoln and his dislike of African Americans.

This collection consists of a single letter from Colonel John T. Lockman of the 119th New York Infantry to Edward Dewitt in New York, N.Y. The letter, written in diary form, is addressed from near Marietta, Ga. and postmarked from Nashville, Tenn. It chronicles the activities of Lockman's unit from June 22-July 6, 1864.

This collection consists of two papers written by William H. Thomas on Colonel Return Jonathon Meigs and the Eastern Cherokee Claims.