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The Tennessee Civil War Sourcebook is a searchable collection of over 7,000 articles chronicling the Civil War in Tennessee from September 1, 1861
through September 30, 1865.
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| Date | Title | Article |
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| August 30, 1861 | “Camp Moore is evidently a very unhealthy place.” Confederate recruit S. |
T. Williams' letter to his Uncle
August 30, 1861 Camp Brown near Union City, Tennessee Dear Uncle, According to promises I will try to drop you a line which inform you I am now in Tennessee and in the... read more |
| October 18, 1861 | Price inflation in Jackson environs, one result of secession | Times are if anything tighter the North seems more determined to subjugate the South. . . One must live in such times to fully appreciate the conditions of everything. Revolutions are terrible things. Every day approach... read more |
| October 31, 1861 | Destruction of Confederate Quartermaster supplies and Lizzie Whitehouse's bordello |
Two Great Fires! Commissary and Quartermaster's Stores in Danger! A House of Crime Destroyed!
At half-past eleven o'clock, smoke was observed issuing from the basement of the furniture establishm... read more |
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November 13, 1861 November 14, 1861 |
Treatment of the wounded at the Overton hospital | Overton Hospital.Note 1-On visiting this hospital yesterday we found the ladies busily attending to their patients. We saw there a noble instance of woman exercising woman's right to whisper soothing words to t... read more |
| November 15, 1861 | Federal prisoners taken at the Engagement at Belmont arrive in |
Memphis
Arrival of Prisoners.-The bluff was lined all yesterday afternoon with crowds anxious to witness the arrival of prisoners taken at the battle of Belmont, who had been put aboard the Ingomar. On the arrival ... read more |
| November 6, 1861 | Confederate election in Jackson environs | Went to town this evening. Election for President and Vice-President and members of Congress. Jefferson Davis & Alexander H. Stephens have no opposition. The People with great unanimity have chosen them for the next 6 years. . . ... read more |
| December 11, 1861 | Tennessee Adjutant General Washington Curran WhitthorneNote 1 to General A. S. Johnston relative to difficulties in raising volunteers in Tennessee |
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nashville, Tenn., December 11, 1861
Gen. A. S. JOHNSTON. Cmdg. Western Department The Governor in callin... read more |
| December 14, 1861 | "Our New Congressional Delegation." | The members elect to the First Congress from our State will compare most favorably with any delegation of the Confederacy. They embrace some of the finest men in the country. Tennessee may well feel proud of them whilst the nation may rejoice ... read more |
| December 17, 1861 | Confederate soldiers die from disease in Jackson environs | . . . Some 17 of the soldiers have died lately, typhoid or camp fever and measles. ... read more |
| December 26, 1861 | Distribution and capacity of Tennessee's military in late December |
1861
NASHVILLE, TENN., December 26, 1861. Col. W. W. MACKALL, DEAR SIR: Since I wrote to you on yesterday Gen. Whitthorne, adjutantgeneral of the State has informed me that Tennessee has now fifty regiment... read more |
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