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A Thrilling War Chapter : The Battle of Missionary Ridge. Recollections of Gen. Thomas J. Wood
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Thomas Wood account books
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The account books record personal expenditure and the finances for Wood's estate from 1696 to 1736. It details payments to servants and agricultural laborers, gardeners, saddlers, carpenters, the keeper of the hunting house, a butler, housemaid, coopers and expenditures on horses and livestock. Personal expenditures include: money given to his wife and children, chartable gifts, school fees, clothing, medical and physician's fees, food, wine, and the purchase of miscellaneous household items such as candles and soap. The volumes also contain medicinal remedies by Wood.
mssHM 81035-81036
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Thomas J. Hood letter, Walnut Ridge, Ark
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The letter signed "W.G.C.", deals with the elections to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention (1849), the letter of Henry Clay to Richard Pindell (1849) and projects of gradual emancipation of slaves, anti-slavery movement in Kentucky, news of the California Gold Rush and the author's Arkansas plantation
mssHM 58075
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Report of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga national park commission : on the claim of Gen. John B. Turchin and others that in the battle of Chattanooga his brigade captured the position on Missionary Ridge known as the DeLong place, and the decision of the secretary of war thereon
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