Records available at the Tennessee State Library & Archives indicate no Bledsoe County veterans completed questionnaires about their service during World War I. However, 4448 questionnaires were returned, some from residents of neighboring counties.
The World War I questionnaire project (TSLA Record Group 239) was part of an effort to gather and preserve the history of Tennessee’s involvement in what was then known as the Great War. On January 24, 1919, the state legislature resolved that a committee of 25 be appointed, to be known as the Tennessee State Historical Committee, part of whose duties was to “collect, compile, index and arrange all data and information of every kind and character relating to the part Tennessee has played in the Great War.”
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