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117th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Company B) Medical Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2773
Abstract

Seventy page battlefield ledger for Company B of the 117th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The ledger includes daily medical reports from January 24th to April 15, 1863. During this time the company was stationed at Ft. Pickering, Tenn. defending Memphis. Patients are listed by name and action (i.e. excused from duty, assigned modified duty, sent to hospital, or quarantine). A small loose piece of paper -- possibly a prescription or doctor's note -- is included among the pages.

Dates: 1863 January-April

A. G. Showey Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2910
Abstract

This letter, written by A. G. Showey Company H of of the 30th Indiana Volunteers, is addressed to his cousin and dated April 18th, 1862 from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He describes his general well-being and inquires as to the health of his relations; furthermore, he requests a letter from his cousin, Clomeria Green.

Dates: 1862 April 18

A. S. Andrews Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3238
Abstract

This letter from Union solider A. S. Andrews, dated four days after the Battle of Shiloh, describes the battle's aftermath.

Dates: 1862 April 11

Adam Loy Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2872
Abstract

This collection consists of two letters written by Adam Loy of the 89th Indiana Infantry to his wife Sarah Loy. The first letter is written from Memphis, Tennessee and is dated May 21, 1863. The second letter is dated May 23. Loy writes of his experiences in the infantry.

Dates: 1863

Advocate and Family Guardian Newspapers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3111
Abstract

This collection consists of four Advocate and Family Guardian dating from 1864. They include articles, poetry, and stories with a focus on Christian teachings as well as a series describing East Tennessee and how it was being affected by the Civil War.

Dates: 1864 January-March

Alfred E. Waldo Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3184
Abstract

A single letter, written October 26, 1863, by Alfred Edward Waldo to his parents. In the letter, he details the defense of Knoxville, Tennessee against General James Longstreet's attack as well as writing of his rations and requesting for new clothes.

Dates: 1863 October 26

Alfred Gruber Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3269
Abstract

Alfred Gruber wrote this letter to his father, Joseph Gruber, from Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 18, 1865. In it, he discusses the aftermath of the war in Chattanooga and wonders whether he should accept the government's offer of a bounty in exchange for five years of service.

Dates: 1865 July 18

Allen J. Clifton Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2964
Abstract

In this letter to his mother (written near Knoxville, Tennessee), Allen Clifton reports on his unit's position and supplies, describes the weather, mentions that he is in good health, inquires about the health and doings of family members and friends, and asks for some postage stamps. He also asks about the returned veterans and solicits his mother's opinion of his decision not to re-enlist.

Dates: 1864 February 20

Amos Guthrie Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2945
Abstract

This collection contains a letter written by Amos Guthrie to his father in New Rumley Township, Ohio. Guthrie was stationed in Knoxville, Tennessee. He attacks Copperheads and gives a rather detailed account about washday and the condition of his socks.

Dates: 1864 March 30

Amos Guthrie Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2946
Abstract

This collection contains a letter written by Amos Guthrie from U. S. General Hospital No. 2, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Dates: 1864 July 14

Amos Guthrie Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2942
Abstract

This collection houses a letter from Civil War soldier Amos Guthrie, stationed in Knoxville, Tennessee, to his father in New Rumley Township, Ohio. It consists primarily of invectives against Copperheads.

Dates: 1864 March 19

Amos Guthrie Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3171
Abstract

These five letters, composed in April 1864 in Knoxville, Tennessee, are written by Amos Guthrie (then serving with the U. S. Signal Corps) to his father and sister in Ohio. They discuss life in Knoxville as well as troop movements in the area.

Dates: 1864 April 9-29

Amos W. Kibbee Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3084
Abstract

This collection consists of a letter dated August 18, 1862, from Amos W. Kibbee in Jackson, Tennessee to his cousin Hattie A. Tuttle in Concord, Ohio. Amos discusses his opinions of the military, the hardships of his battle-scarred unit, and the potential of freed slaves.

Dates: 1862 August 18

Amy L. Atchison Collection of Civil War Muster Rolls

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2939
Abstract

This collection consists of thirteen Muster Rolls from Company G, 2nd Tennessee Cavalry, signed between October 1862 and February 1865, and eighteen confederate and Civil War-era state banknotes.

Dates: 1862 October-1865 February, undated

Andrew J. Stephens Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2781
Abstract

This collection consists of a single letter written by Stephens to Miss M. J. Brakebill of Knoxville, Tenn., on July 29, 1864. Postmarked from Loudon, Tenn. and written from Cumberland Gap, Tenn., the letter discusses the effect of the Civil War on Stephens. He mentions that he believes that "E. Tenn. will be releaved [sic] in a short time."

Dates: 1864 July 29

Andrew Johnson Certificates

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3294
Abstract

This collection consists of two documents signed by Andrew Johnson, then Governor of Tennessee, in 1863 and 1864. The first certificate appoints Thomas J. Cypert Captain in the Regiment of Union Guards of Tennessee Volunteers, and the second appoints James M. Moore First Lieutenant of Company A in the Second Regiment of the Mounted Infantry of Tennessee.

Dates: 1863-1864

Andrew Tousley Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2896
Abstract

Andrew Tousley wrote this letter to his friend and former classmate Amanda White from camp near Nashville, Tennessee on November 29, 1862. In it, he discusses his religious faith, serving under the command of General Rosencrans, and recent military happenings.

Dates: 1862 November 29

Ann E. Hannum Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-3407
Abstract

Ann Eliza (White) Hannum wrote this letter to her son, Dr. Frank H. Hannum, on March 14, 1862. In it, she speaks of a married man who has been living in illicit intercourse with a woman. She also discusses the many men going to war, saying that "it is a deplorable condition, when will god see fit to end this terrible war. Oh my son turn your thoughts to god and prepare for when some time his summons comes whether in a peaceful bed or terrible field."

Dates: 1862 March 14

Army of the Cumberland Quartermaster's Report

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2904
Abstract

In a letter dated 1865 May 5 the chief quartermaster of the Army of the Cumberland, E. B. Carling, sends his annual report for the month of March to his superior, A. J. Mackay. The letter was sent internally from the quartermaster's office located in Nashville, Tenn. The letter concerns the movements of the Army of the Cumberland's 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Cavalry divisions throughout the state of Mississippi.

Dates: 1865 May 5

Asa M. Weston Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MS-2965
Abstract

In this letter to his sister, Asa M. Weston discusses being close to Knoxville and President Lincoln's call for more draftees.

Dates: 1864 February 18

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Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 223
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 170
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Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. 39
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 23
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Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 20
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal Narratives, Confederate. 9
Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History -- Siege, 1863. 8
Soldiers -- Michigan -- Correspondence. 8
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. 8
Soldiers -- Indiana -- Correspondence. 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African-American. 7
Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863. 6
Knoxville (Tenn.) -- History. 6
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History. 6
Nashville (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 6
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Correspondence. 6
Soldiers -- Wisconsin -- Correspondence. 6
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. 6
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 14th (1861-1865). 6
Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 5
Correspondence. 5
Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 5
Soldiers -- Pennsylvania -- Correspondence. 5
Tennessee -- History. 5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. 5
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. 5
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863. 5
Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 4
Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864. 4
Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862. 4
Soldiers -- Alabama -- Correspondence. 4
Tennessee, East -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 4
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. 4
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Cavalry Battalion, 1st. 3
Copperhead movement. 3
Cumberland Gap Campaign, 1862. 3
Fort Sanders, Battle of, Knoxville, Tenn., 1863. 3
Freedmen -- Tennessee. 3
Knox County (Tenn.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). 3
Soldiers -- Iowa -- Correspondence. 3
Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863. 3
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African-American. 3
Tennessee -- Politics and government. 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Diaries. 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Protest movements. 3
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Tennessee. 3
United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. 3
United States. Army of the Cumberland. 3
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1862-1865). 3
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 64th (1861-1865). 3
United States. Army. Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865). 3
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 3
Confederate States of America. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 13th. 2
Cumberland Gap (Tenn.) 2
Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 2
Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. 2
Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination. 2
Lookout Mountain (Appalachian Mountains). 2
Lookout Mountain, Battle of, Tenn., 1863. 2
Morristown (Tenn.) -- History. 2
Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 2
Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
Perryville, Battle of, Perryville, Ky., 1862. 2
Photographs. 2
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Tennessee. 2
Resaca, Battle of, Resaca, Ga., 1864. 2
Slavery -- Tennessee 2
Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. 2
Soldiers -- Illinois -- Diaries. 2
Soldiers -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence. 2
Soldiers -- New York (State) -- Correspondence. 2
Soldiers -- North Carolina -- Correspondence. 2
Soldiers -- Ohio. 2
Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental Histories. 2
Tennessee -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865. 2
Tennessee -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. 2
Tennessee River -- Pictorial works. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Engineering and construction. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Hospitals. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pictorial works. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Poetry. 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Religious aspects. 2
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 2
United States. Army. Corps, 23rd (1863-1865). 2
United States. Army. Indiana Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1863-1865). 2
United States. Army. Michigan Cavalry Regiment, 10th (1863-1865). 2
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 69th (1861-1865). 2
United States. Army. Tennessee Infantry Regiment, 8th (1862-1865). 2
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
War -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 2
Women -- Tennessee -- Diaries. 2
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