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Richard M. Saffell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-1333
Abstract
A collection of letters between various members of the Saffell and Bogle families largely documenting their experiences during the Civil War. Of particular interest are the letters to and from Sam and Dick Saffell describing their service with the Confederate Army.
Dates:
1837 April 18-1889 December 25
Pinckney Latham Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0903
Abstract
In this diary, Pinckney Latham describes his service with Company A of the 4th Tennessee Infantry (CSA), nicknamed the Shelby Grays. Early entries mention troop movements, Latham's capture on February 12, 1865 near Memphis, Tennessee, and his parole at Vicksburg the following month. The diary goes on to describe his assignment to Meridian, Mississippi, including his journey to Meridian, the people he meets, the girls he sees, his activities when off duty, the weather, the progress of the...
Dates:
1860 February 28, 1865 January 6-1867 November 10, 1952; Majority of material found within 1865-1867
Talbot Greene Memoir
Collection
Identifier: MS-0058
Abstract
This collection consists of a typescript copy of a 22-page memoir entitled The Bivouac: or, Life in the General Army of the Kentucky by Talbot Greene (sometimes spelled Talbert Green). This manuscript lists the officers and men of the 26th Tennessee Infantry (also called the 3rd East Tennessee Volunteers), documents life in the unit's camp, describes the places that the unit visited, provides reconstructions of the conversations of some of the soldiers, and prints...
Dates:
1861
E. H. Rennolds Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MS-0170
Abstract
E. H. Rennolds maintained these two diaries while he was serving with the 5th Tennessee Infantry (CSA) in 1863 and 1864 during the Civil War. In them, he describes his service in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, including his participation in the battles of Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville.
Dates:
1863-1864
Samuel Beckett Boyd Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS-0248
Abstract
Samuel Beckett Boyd kept this diary while imprisoned at Camp Chase from January 1, 1865 to April 3, 1865. In it, he describes the weather, his diet, his journey to Camp Chase, letters he has written to and received from family and friends, rumors (especially rumors of prisoner exchanges) he has heard, men released from prison (particularly men who have sworn loyalty to the Union forces as a condition of their release), men transferred into the prison, and his health and the health of the...
Dates:
1865 January 1-April 3
W. R. Boggs Reminiscences
Collection
Identifier: MS-0879
Abstract
In this typescript (written at his daughter's often repeated request to know something of my war history) W. R. Boggs recounts his service as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. He begins his narrative with his departure from the U. S. Army at the start of the conflict and continues on to describe his service as head of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau, as Colonel and Chief Engineer of the Georgia State Forces, as a staff officer for General E. Kirby Smith (during which time he...
Dates:
1891 January 16, circa 1911
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- Franklin, Battle of, Franklin, Tenn., 1864. 1
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- Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal Narratives, Confederate. 1
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