Tennessee State Archives Roll #17 Lauderdale County, Tennessee County Clerk’s Office Widow’s Pension Records—Dates: Sept.1866 –Nov.1928. PAGE 39; MRS.E.J. NELSON YEARS PROVISIONS–We, the undersigned Commissioners, having been appointed at the March Term of your Court to lay-off to MRS. E.J. NELSON, … Continue reading →
Lauderdale County, TN residents who submitted applications to the Confederate Soldiers’ Home. The Tennessee Confederate Soldiers’ Home opened on the grounds of the Hermitage Plantation (the former residence of Andrew Jackson) in 1890. The Soldiers’ Home provided care and housing … Continue reading →
Confederate Pension Applications: Soldiers and Widows Residents of Lauderdale County, TN at time of application VETERAN’S NAME WIDOW’S NAME UNIT PENSION# Adams, J.W. — 9th Inf. S11022 Alexander, W.D. — 154th Sr. Regt. Inf. S7304 Alston, Solomon G. Alston, Joan … Continue reading →
On April 9, 1921 the Tennessee legislature passed an act providing pensions of $10.00 per month for “those colored men who served as servants and cooks in the Confederate Army in the War Between the States” (1921 Public Acts, Ch. … Continue reading →
Published by The Printers of the Twelfth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers (Roll 101 – Humboldt Chronicle, Tennessee State Archives) Soldiers Budgett Volume 1 No. 1 Humbolt, Tennessee July 24, 1862 Facts and Fancies —– Dr. Winship of Boston expects to be … Continue reading →
Thomas Michael (T.M.) Blackwell kept a journal during the four years he served in the Civil War. The family has a portion of the 1862 journal/diary in his hand writing and also a typed copy. It is quite a family … Continue reading →
Newspaper article dated 1 Jan 14 (probably 1914) was found in the Thomas John Blackwell family Bible – entitled Twenty-Ninth Year: Lest We Forget It occurs to me that a plain narrative of some of my recollections of the times … Continue reading →
In the Confederate Veteran magazine in February, 1904, C.S.O. Rice wrote the following about his experience at the Vicksburg siege. “On the 17th of May, 1863, we were ordered inside the fortifications of Vicksburg, and were in the besieged town … Continue reading →
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