Manuscripts

Confederate Army record books

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Description: Special orders and notes on officers of the Army of Mississippi, Deptartment 2 and Department of Tennessee.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1865.
Call number: mssHM 41988
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
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Orderly Book of the Eastern Department of the United States Army

Manuscripts

Orders, special orders and circulars received by Eastern Department from the War Department, Army Headquarters, Office of Adjutant General, Ordnance Department, Pay Department, and Office of the Adjutant General of Eastern territorial Department from June 1, 1821 through July 1828

mssHM 58077

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[Seated Union army officer]

Visual Materials

This collection contains 54 photographs by photographer Isaac H. Bonsall chiefly depicting the landscape and Union Army operations during the American Civil War in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Corinth, Mississippi, and the surrounding regions, from approximately 1862 to 1865. The prints primarily document encampments, buildings, artillery, steamships, railroad bridges, and soldiers. The collection also includes some portraits of soldiers and Union officers, including the officers of the 1st United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers and Generals William S. Rosencrans, John H. King, George H. Thomas, and Joseph Hooker. Among the images are two images of African American Union troops. A landscape view of grazing farm animals near Arkansas City, Kansas, is the only image in the collection that does not date from the Civil War, and also the only image carrying Bonsall's imprint. There are also two additional images that were not taken by Bonsall and include copyright information for N. Brown.

photCL 491

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[U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Wm. S. Rosecrans]

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photCL 491

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[Army post below Signal Hill, Chattanooga, Tennessee]

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photCL 491

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Union Army Major/Lt. Colonel, possibly at General Rosecrans' headquarters, Chattanooga, Tennessee]

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photCL 491

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Ulysses S. Grant general field orders, near Vicksburg :

Manuscripts

Grant's orders for a general cannonading of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on the following day. Includes instructions for field artillery, siege guns, rifle pits, troops, and corps commanders. Item is undated and incomplete; orders were released as Special Orders No. 165 on June 19, 1863 by Lieutenent Colonel John A. Rawlins, according to Papers of Ulysses S. Grant.

mssHM 21183

Confederate Army record books

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