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1861-1864

Hammond, Horace J., fl. 1862-1865

Envelope

Title: [envelope addressed to Eleanor Hammond]

Envelopes addressed to Mrs. Eleanor Hammond, Wallace, Steuben County, New York

GLC09273.51

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [View of Part of Chattanooga]

GLC07000.30

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [View of Part of Chattanooga]

GLC07000.31

March 1864

Photograph

Title: [View of parapet of Fort Sanders]

Looking southeast, University of Tennessee in background.

GLC07000.32

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [View of Chatanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain, et al.]

View of Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain; Army transport ascending Rapids of Tennessee river, View on Tennessee River, View on Tennessee River near Chattanooga

GLC07000.33

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Blockhouse at Railroad Junction neat Chattanooga, et al.]

Block House of railroad junction near Chattanooga; Block House on railroad at Charleston, Tenn.; Block House on Tennessee and Ala. railroad destroyed by Gen. Forrest; Fortified bridge over Cumberland R. on Louisville and Nashville railroad.

GLC07000.34

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Fort Saunders, Knoxville, Tennessee]

view showing salient, assaulted by Confederates, November 29, 1863.

GLC07000.35

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Fort Saunders, Knoxville, Tennessee]

showing bastion assaulted by Confederates, on morning of November 29, 1863. Generals Poe & Babcock in foreground.

GLC07000.36

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [View of Part of Chattanooga and Army Bridge across Tennessee River]

GLC07000.37

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Lookout on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.39

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Missionary on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.40

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Bridgeport on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.41

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Chickamauga on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.42

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Kingston on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.43

1861-1877

Photograph

Title: [Army Transport Wauhatchie on the Tennessee River]

GLC07000.44

17 March 1862

Van Nuys, John H., fl. 1861-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Watson Van Nuys

"Stanton has is[s]ued an order forbidding the publishing of Army Movements," thus Vannuys confesses to being uninformed of current army activities. He suspects his son will go to Winchester, and does not believe there will be forward movement on the Potomac. Reports general news of health (SWV's mother is again very sick), crops, and the death of a man named Fisher.

GLC07687.129