An appeal to Southern women
This circular asks Confederate women to provide an “essential service” by growing garden poppies that could then be processed into opiates such as morphine....
Application for military headstone
In 1929, Mrs. Mande M. McGehee applied to the Office of the Quartermaster General in the War Department for a headstone for the unmarked grave of Nathaniel M....
Applying for exemption
Many Southern whites believed the Confederate draft favored the rich. The “twenty Negro law,” for example, exempted planters with 20 or more slaves. In February...
Bound to the Confederate effort
This ledger sheet lists slaves employed at the Confederate States Armory in Macon, Georgia, in December 1862. You can find the names and occupations of each slave and...
Captured
This is a photograph of a group of Confederate prisoners. The Civil War was the first large and prolonged conflict recorded by the camera. Mathew Brady and other...
Compiled service record for John M. Beck
Between 1903 and 1927, the War Department created compiled service records to minimize handling and wear of the original records. A single form contains information...
“driven from their homes by the disloyal Indians . . .”
Native Americans were caught between the Union and the Confederacy, and the loyalties of several tribes were split. In this letter, U.S. Commissioner of Indian...