{"id":696,"date":"2022-01-11T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=696"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:28:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:28:31","slug":"696-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/696-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee World War I Veterans&#8217; Questionnaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records available at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives indicate no Bledsoe County veterans completed questionnaires about their service during World War I.&nbsp; However, 4448 questionnaires were returned, some from residents of neighboring counties.<\/p>\n<p>The World War I questionnaire project (TSLA Record Group 239) was part of an effort to gather and preserve the history of Tennessee&#8217;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 &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sos.tn.gov\/tsla\/guides\/tennessee-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for more information about the questionnaires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tslaindexes.tn.gov\/database-military-records\/tennessee-world-war-i-veterans-questionnaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to go directly to the searchable database of questionnaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records available at the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives indicate no Bledsoe County veterans completed questionnaires about their service during World War I.&nbsp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,40,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-records","category-research-repositories-contacts","category-searchable-databases"],"modified_by":"TNGenWeb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}