- Tennessee Matches
- Personal Perspectives
- Bodies and you may Savings
- Images and you can Designs
- General Special Collections Info
Knoxville for the Conflict
John Shrady Emails, 1862 Will get 17-1864 October 8 (MS.1436) Dr. John Shrady typed the majority of this type of characters (really obvious hand) to their spouse, Jeannie (Sammis) Shrady, as he was serving because a physician into the next Tennessee Infantry Section. Though John Srady’s organization having Knoxville was quick along with his provider inside regional medical facilities was temporary, his letters highlight issues that been successful after the city is actually recovered in order to Partnership control.
John Watkins within the Knoxville to help you Sarah Probert, 1863 Sep 18 (MS.1161) Inside page, old September 18, 1863, regarding John Watkins in Knoxville, Tenn., so you can Sarah Probert within the Pittsfield, Kansas, Watkins brings a list of every he has over since leaving Crab Orchard, Kentucky. getting Knoxville. He produces from the marching to Cumberland Pit having Burnside and the Confederate stop trying indeed there. Including, he complains about the diminished post provider and you can refers to the dilapidated condition regarding Knoxville: “Knoxville should have been some a location up until the combat began however it looks now as if it actually was the latest eldest lay globally and you will become permitted to rundown from the time it was depending.” (select digitized letter) **That it letter is one item throughout the larger John Watkins Documentation collection.
Robert An excellent. Ragan Emails, 1863 October thirteen-1864 April eleven (MS.0743) So it collection houses eight letters from Robert A great. Ragan so you can their spouse, Emeline (Neass) Ragan. His letters show an appealing angle of the war. Inside, Ragan discusses matches and skirmishes toward “Rebels,” relates to the latest terrain he’s got viewed, relates their anger having army existence, mentions their concern with moving past an acceptable limit Southern area, and you can comments on their unit’s motions and steps. The guy writes regarding Bulls Pit, Jonesborough, Knoxville, Wraytown, and you will Greenville. Their characters from Dec. step 3 and you may cuatro, 1863, off Knoxville describe the battle happening amongst the rebels and you will the fresh new connection: “he’s generated four services to take Knoxville nonetheless provides failed each and every time. Sherman is in ten miles people with a huge push . ” The guy reassures their spouse which he has not been grabbed and you can held prisoner, when he is actually yes she is being told yourself, however, that he has actually a rations and you can understands he could be into the a proper side of the disagreement. (find selected digitized letters)
Elizabeth Baker Crozier Record, 1863-1864 (MS.1048) Contained in this log, E Baker Crozier describes life in the Knoxville in siege of 1863. She initiate from the revisiting The fall of. fifteen, 1863, the day the woman is forced to evacuate their unique family. Crozier refers to getting amidst the new fighting and you can recounts Union troops plundering and you will burning her house, and additionally destroying brand new house regarding their own friends and neighbors. She in addition to remembers the kindness someone else since she and her spouse attempted to reestablish a property and lifetime due to their family relations. The next admission is visit our website of Nov. 23, the day Longstreet caught brand new Cherokee Heights urban area to the west of downtown Knoxville. Age Baker Crozier relates to “prepared with higher stress having Longstreet and work out one huge disperse abreast of the area and you will deliver us simultaneously regarding the vicious enemy. my better half and son was that have Longstreet’s military nearly in sight of their house.” She extends back and refers to earlier situations of the season and you can general life style standards in the Knoxville. Inside the a tiny excerpt at the bottom, Crozier produces of one’s loss of their unique sister, Dr. Henry Baker, as a result of Connection soldiers.
Soldier Point of views
Richard M. Saffell Documents, 1837 April 18-1889 December twenty-five (MS.1333) Such emails between certain members of the fresh new Saffell and you can Bogle family document their feel from inside the Municipal Combat. Out of sorts of attention could be the emails both to and from Sam and you may Cock Saffell explaining the services on the Confederate Military in East Tennessee.
Milton Weaver Collection, 1856-1866 (MS.2128) That it range consists of emails, envelopes, poems, recopies, and you may a great tintype referring to Milton Weaver’s experiences for the 74th Kansas Voluntary Infantry inside the Municipal Conflict. The bulk of the new collection is made of correspondence between Milton Weaver and his awesome loved ones, most of that is written toward striking patriotic fixed. The newest letters determine camp existence, some armed forces tips, Copperheads, and you will Weaver’s need to return to their relatives for the Ohio.
Interested experts may also need to consult T. J. Walker’s “Reminiscences of your own Civil Combat” (MS.0124) hence covers many same tips about opinion of a rebel soldier.
Watson B. Smith Characters, 1863 August-Sep (MS.3324) So it range households four characters one to Watson B. Smith typed to their friends inside the Michigan out-of East Tennessee throughout August and you can paign, battles that have Confederate troops and guerillas, and you can dealings towards the civilian people, that has been mostly ( not completely) sympathetic toward Relationship. He and discusses their obligations during the head office, also their temporary appointment since aide-de-go camping. There are also numerous emails composed both to and from grabbed Confederate officers.
Robert Galbraith Municipal Combat Diaries, 1863-1865 (MS.2179) The three diaries inside collection provide an insight into an effective soldier’s big date-to-go out items, together with battles (away from kind of focus ‘s the Competition off Stones River written about into p, and you will recreational products.
David L. Jones so you can Anna Jones, 1865 March 18 (MS.2685) Page old February 18, 1865, out of David L. Jones inside Nashville, Tenn. so you can Anna Jones for the Alleghany City, Pa. Refers to exorbitant rates from inside the Nashville, a visit to Fort Negley, thievery on the barracks, lives within camp, and an effective breakdown of the area around martial laws. (select digitized page) **This is one item about big David L. Jones Emails range.
Civilian Perspectives
Eleanora Willauer Journal, 1862 October step 1-1869 November 9 (MS.2940) Which range include the latest Confederate record out-of Eleanora Willauer regarding Dickson County, Tennessee. Authored anywhere between Oct 1, 1862 and you may November nine, 1869, the new diary offers a free account of civilian existence in the area as well as events about the Civil Combat in addition to reflections with the Willauer’s private ideas into the several months. On journal, Willauer describes several army frontrunners, eg meeting Standard Nathan Bedford Forrest to the January 20, 1863. She means your because the “significant and large (much less) and i also envision very fine-looking.”
Towards the March 5, 1863, Willauer produces out-of a fight during the Foot. Donelson: “To think of one hundred in our brave Southerners becoming sacrificed to possess little. the latest neglect of some chief – in which the fault rests I am aware maybe not. However, blame there clearly was. Are Bragg good – traitor?”
Adopting the prevent of your conflict, to the July 9, 1865, Willauer claims “Vow is actually inactive and you will Freedom is actually their unique grave. A cousin on the Federal armed forces and perhaps inactive for the an effective Southern area jail – the new South overpowered – defeated – subjugated!”
For the December step three, 1865, Willauer produces “This new negroes have most of them become delivered of right here and the couple you to will always be are getting soon. The latest Captain thinks in white labor.” After that she adds an entry after that for April, 1866, listing just that “He has got negroes from the Heating system now and are usually starting process as fast as possible.”
