Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
15th Indiana Volunteers flag collection
Collection — Folder S1536
Identifier: S1536
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of six items, beginning with "The Dying Drummer Boy" narrative by Joshua Burrows, New Albany, Indiana, published in the Indianapolis Journal on December 5, 1862. The four-page typed story tells about Jerry, a drummer boy from the 101st Indiana Regiment, who died of fever in Lebanon, Kentucky. Mr. Burrows served as his nurse, and wrote the story on November 25, 1862.The 2nd item is a two-sided, printed order No. 20 from Headquarters of the Fourth Army Corps...
Dates:
1862-1921
Charles Goodman discharge papers
Collection — Folder S2570
Identifier: S2570
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the original item, a military discharge signed July 28, 1864 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Also written over the print, in red ink, is the paid-in-full certification from a paymaster in Indianapolis, dated August 3rd, 1864. The document also bears a stamp in blue ink for bounty paid, dated May 8, 1867, by US paymaster E.L. Moore. In faded blue typescript is information about Goodman's burial in Indianapolis in 1918. On the reverse is stamped and signed the approval of a...
Dates:
1864/07/28
Civil War letter
Collection — Folder S3136
Identifier: S3136
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a letter from unknown correspondent in Chattanooga, Tennesse on March 11, 1865 regarding health, family, and military life.
Dates:
1865/03/11
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Civil War letter
General Robert S. Foster, A.G. Sharp collection
Collection — Folder S1166
Identifier: S1166
Scope and Contents
The collection includes one item, an original handwritten letter from September 9, 1889, from Robert Sanford Foster to A.G. Sharp, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, expressing regrets to attend the 20th reunion of the "Society of the Army of the Cumberland", September 18, 1889. The original letter was handwritten by General Robert Sanford Foster on stationery of the R.S. Foster and Company, Grain Commission Merchants, established 1865.
Dates:
circa 1865
John S. McGraw letters
Collection — Folder S0887
Identifier: S0887
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Civil War letters from John McGraw to his wife and children in Richmond, Indiana written from Murfreesboro, Pelham, and Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1863.
Dates:
1863
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John S. McGraw letters
Ransom T. Young letters
Collection — Folder S1477
Identifier: S1477
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence from members of the Young family of Indiana, including Ransom T. Young, his wife Emma, and his brothers, James M. and John C. Young, to their sister, Mary E. (Young) Jones between 1864 and 1875. There are also other Civil War letters from Hoosier soldiers and their relatives, including letters sent to James and Mary (Johnson) Briggs of Utica, Indiana from their brothers and friends, as well as two letters from J.W. Lakin to his siblings from 1861 to 1865....
Dates:
1861-1875
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ransom T. Young letters
