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Mf. 2001  -- Harris/Brown Papers, 1805-[1805-1947]-2000.  1 reel. 16mm.
This collection is composed of Bible records, broadsides, correspondence, deeds, estate records, funeral notices, genealogical data, indentures, marriage bonds, newspapers and clippings, postcards, promissory notes, published genealogical records, receipts, voter registrations, wills, and a slave bill of sale and slave bill of hire. These materials relate to the Brown, Bryson, and Harris families of Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers are arranged according to the familial relationships with cross-referenced duplicates in some folders.

Mf. 2002  -- William K. Watson Papers, 1862-1902. TSLA. 1 reel, 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The core of the William K. Watson Papers, 1862-1902, bulk 1862-1865, is the diary of William K. Watson, which covers January 1864 to March 1865. Most of the remaining items in the collection are letters to and from his wife, Tillie, that date from 1862-1865. Watson frequently writes of family matters and how deeply he misses his wife and children.

Sgt. Watson (1833-1916) was a Union soldier from Zanesville, Ohio, who enlisted in 1862 with the 150th New York Volunteer Regiment. He headquartered in Tennessee at Normandy near Tullahoma during the winter of 1864 before participating in the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah. He describes various other battles and skirmishes that take place during the latter part of the war, including the Battle at New Hope Church, May 25-27, 1864; the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; and the Battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20, 1864.

Watson worked as a tailor both before and after the war. On March 16, 1865, he was wounded in combat, shortly after his diary ends on March 12, 1865.

Mf. 2003  -- Antioch Baptist Church (Washington County, Tenn) Records, 1919-2008. 1 volume. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
According to the church website, the congregation was founded about 1875. The address of the church is 1014 Antioch Road in Johnson City, Tennessee.  This volume consists of a chronological membership roll. The information recorded includes the date of baptism, date the letter was received, the name, the name of the church transferred from, the date of death, date erased or excluded, and the name of the church the member transferred to. The listings cover 1919-2008 but the listings from the 1950s to 1990s predominate.

Mf. 2004  -- Ruth Baxter Cochran Scrapbook Collection, 1965-1993.  46 volumes and .5 cubic feet.   6 reels. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This collection consists of forty-six scrapbooks and .5 cubic feet of newspaper clippings, photographs and other personal items primarily relating to the genealogy of the Leonard and Baxter families. The scrapbooks were compiled by Elizabeth Leonard Baxter. After her death, her daughter, Ruth Baxter Cochran, continued working on the scrapbooks. Much of the material relates to Lincoln, Marshall, and Moore counties in Tennessee. Other scrapbooks in the collection are topical in nature. Seven contain information about Marshall County and use material from local newspapers, the Marshall Gazette and the Lewisburg Tribune. The Home Demonstration scrapbook and the Happiness is Found scrapbook contain material relating to Elizabeth Leonard Baxter’s hobbies and interests: the local Home Demonstration Club, teaching and education, the Foster family reunion, her church, and cats. The Reagan scrapbook contains material about President Ronald Reagan. The Hillsdale and Return to Virginia Beach scrapbooks contain information about life in Cookeville, Tennessee, and family vacations, while the Places scrapbook gives more detail on the locations the family has visited.

Ruth Baxter Cochran’s husband, Wayne L. Cochran, inherited Chestnut Ridge Farm from his father Henard O. Cochran. Upon Wayne Cochran’s death in 1997, Ruth Baxter Cochran, her mother-in-law Mrs Elizabeth “Lib” Cochran of Lewisburg, and Ruth’s two children and their families all shared ownership of the farm, designated as a Tennessee Century Farm. Located on the Elk Ridge, the farm was considered a part of Lincoln County before 1871 and afterwards, part of Moore County.

Mf. 2005  -- Hannibal Fox Civil War Diary (Jan.-Dec. 1865), TSLA. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This small diary was kept during 1865 by Hannibal Fox (1839-1917) of the 2nd Vermont Light Artillery Battery. Fox was from Chelsea, VT and initially enlisted in the 4th Vermont Infantry, from which he was discharged for disability in December of 1862. He re-enlisted in the 2nd Vermont Light Artillery Battery on August 13, 1864 and served until he mustered out on July 31, 1865. Fox died in 1917 and is buried in Galena Cemetery, Galena, Stone County, Missouri.

As Fox’s diary is dept in 1865, after fighting ended in and around his posting in the Mississippi River town of Port Hudson, Louisiana, his entries reflect the rather pedestrian concerns of an officer posted to a non-combat theater late in the Civil War.  He has frequent interactions with the Assistant Adjutant General, the Quartermaster, the Christian Commission, and the post office (he apparently was in charge of distributing the battalion’s mail).  An educated man, Fox has an interest in the 19th century pseudo-science of phrenology and is an avid birder and pigeon-keeper.

Entries of note include a mention of President Lincoln’s assassination (4/18), having “captured one Reb” on a 80-mile foray across the Mississippi River into western Louisiana (5/9), and July 13: “Passed Memphis in the morning.  Men got drunk and raised a mutiny on board. Came near being thrown overboard.”  He is discharged in Cairo, IL and spends some time in Cleveland, OH before returning to Vermont. The remainder of the diary concerns Fox’s life in Burlington, VT until he ends up in Brookfield, Linn County, MO on Dec. 31, 1865.

The diary was loaned for microfilming on Sept. 6, 2011 by its owner, the Cookeville History Museum, during the Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee event.

Mf. 2006  -- University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library – Tennessee Physicians Index, ca. 1790 – ca. 1994. 3 reels, 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This card index of all known physicians in Tennessee from the late 18th century through the late 20th century was the project of Dr. S.R. (Simon Rulin) Bruesch (1914-1994) of the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences. Dr. Bruesch compiled as much information as possible on anyone who had claimed to have practiced medicine in Tennessee, using various sources, including original records. Many entries span more than one card and some cards also have information on the reverse side. Most entries are typed, although some handwritten information is included. The original card index is held and maintained by the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences Library’s Historical Collections in Memphis, Tennessee.

Mf. 2007  -- John C. Lipscomb Papers, 1862-1865.  0.25 cubic feet. TSLA.  1 reel. 16mm.  Microfilm Only Collection.
The collection consists of twenty documents related to Capt. John C. Lipscomb’s service in the 27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., during the Civil War. The majority of the documents are military records, but there are also one clipping, one letter, and one invitation to a dance (held at the courthouse in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, two weeks before the Battle of Stones River).

John C. Lipscomb (1842-1917) enlisted as a private in Company D, 27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment on August 27, 1861, at Camp Trenton in Gibson County, Tennessee. After mustering at Trenton, the regiment moved to Henderson, where it stayed until November 1861. It then moved to Columbus, Kentucky, where it was armed and equipped. The commanding officer, Col. Christopher H. Williams, and 100 men from the regiment were selected to escort Gen. Felix Zollicoffer’s body back to Nashville after he was killed in the Battle of Mill Springs on January 19, 1862. The regiment moved to Nashville in February 1862, and then on to Corinth, Mississippi as part of Brig. Gen. Sterling A.M. Wood’s Brigade.

As part of Wood’s Brigade, the regiment fought at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6-7, 1862. After that battle, new officers were elected as part of the reorganization, and Lipscomb became a lieutenant in Company D on May 12, 1862. He was elected captain of Company D on June 18, 1862.

The regiment participated in Gen. Braxton Bragg’s invasion of Kentucky later in 1862. Because of losses sustained during its engagements in Kentucky, the 27th Tennessee was consolidated with the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, forming the 1st/27th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment.

Special Order No. 118 (in Folder 6), dated December 26, 1862, ordered Lipscomb to report to Col. A.W. Caldwell for recruiting service. Although he officially remained the captain of Company D, it appears Lipscomb served as a recruiting officer for the rest of the war.

After the war, Lipscomb lived near Greenfield in Weakley County, Tennessee as a farmer, lawyer, and county court judge. He died February 7, 1917 and is buried in Greenfield.

Mf. 2008  -- Henry Marshall Misemer Family Letters, 1861-[1863-1865]-1878. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This collection is comprised almost entirely of correspondence written by Henry Marshall Misemer (1832-1865) to his second wife, Martha Jane Bogart, during the Civil War. Cpl. Misemer served in Company F, 3rd Regiment, East Tennessee Cavalry, USA, along with Martha’s brothers Solomon, Levi, and Charles Harrison Bogart. A few Bogart family letters are also included in the collection.

Misemer’s letters describe in detail the nature of the Federal action against the South. On March 20, 1864, Misemer mentions heading into West Point, Mississippi, where he helps to burn corn and cotton, and then assists in the destruction of railroad tracks. He also mentions capturing “negroes” as well as horses and mules. Misemer helps to kill or capture up to 1,000 Confederates during this expedition. General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s troops captured Misemer on September 25, 1864, He was later paroled from the Cahaba, Mississippi, prison.

The collection includes a letter written by Levi Bogart to his sister Martha, on June 16, 1864, that contains a number of observations about African Americans and Jews. The collection contains a letter written by Solomon Bogart about the explosion of the U.S.S. Sultana on the Mississippi River near Memphis. Misemer and brothers-in-law Levi and Charles Harrison Bogart died in the Sultana explosion.

Mf. 2009  -- William Neal McGrew Civil War Diaries, 1861-1862. 1 reel. 16mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
This collection of three diaries was written by William Neal (Neely) McGrew during his service in the Confederate Army, from 1861-1862. McGrew wrote that he joined Wheeler’s “First Giles Cavalry” on November 20, 1861, and was sworn into service with the Confederate Army in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 9, 1861. McGrew described training and drills at Camp Weakley near Nashville. Stricken with a “pustule or tumor” that left him sick and unable to talk, he went home to Pulaski on furlough for Christmas week, returning to his company on January 1, 1862. On January 8, Wheeler’s company became Company A of Lt. Col. William Wallace Gordon’s 11th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion.

McGrew witnessed the Nashville funerals of Gen. Felix Zollicoffer and other soldiers. He reported on what he heard about the battles at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, but did not participate in either. On February 12, McGrew returned home to Pulaski on sick leave. Five days later, he described “the gloomy news” that came on the train carrying Governor Isham Harris and his cabinet away from Nashville towards Memphis. According to McGrew, Harris “told the Citizens last night that he would be with them in 10 days to die with them in the Cause of the South.”

McGrew rejoined his company in March, marching through Athens and Decatur, Alabama. On March 10, 1862, he wrote that “Playing soldier is now becoming a very disagreeable game but I fear not half as hard as it will yet be.”

The company traveled by train to Tuscumbia, Alabama, and then marched to Iuka, Mississippi. He reported on the Battle of Shiloh, the capture of Huntsville, Alabama, on April 10 and various activities around Corinth, Mississippi. McGrew wrote about the presence of Gen. Adams and the reorganization of his company, which had been combined with Col. Biffle’s battalion to form a new regiment. On April 30, he noticed “there being some great dissatisfaction in our Regiment as to our field officers, they resigned and run the elections over this morning which resulted in the election of Leut. Col. Biffle as Commanding Colonel.”

McGrew chronicled his company’s movement in northern Mississippi and West Tennessee, with references to short rations, ill health, and becoming lost in a swamp. On August 30-31, 1862, there was a “considerable brush with the Yanks” near Bolivar, Tennessee. His descriptions include Jackson, Denmark, and LaGrange, Tennessee, the latter serving as the site of his convalescence for several days before finding his camp on September 17, 1862.

The entries for several days in October 1862 have been crossed out, followed by a reference on October 31 to “court martials going on.” By November 9, McGrew was back in Holly Springs, Mississippi, reporting that the infantry was in retreat. On November 12, his small force was given a dangerous mission for a “small force of 93 men” near Lumpkins’s Mill. The following day, McGrew and “20 from the Reg 1st Tenn Cavalry and 11 others from different commands” were cut off, surrounded, and captured by the Yankees (the 2nd Iowa Cavalry).

As a prisoner of war, McGrew went first to “Hutsonville (Hudsonville, Mississippi), where he was “treated kindly.” His diary contains a list of others imprisoned with him. The Federals transported the prisoners to Holly Springs, Mississippi, and then to LaGrange, Tennessee. From there they traveled on to Cairo, Illinois, and Columbus, Kentucky, then boarded the Lady Jackson along with “several hundred of our brother soldiers” bound for Memphis, then on board the Metropolis to Helena, Arkansas, and finally to Vicksburg, where he was paroled on December 2, 1862.

William Neal (Neely) McGrew (1835-1923) was born in Coffee County, Tennessee, but called Prospect, Tennessee, in Giles County, his home. His father, Curry McGrew, was originally from Greenville, South Carolina, and his mother, was the former Eliza Ann Patton from Tennessee. Before the Civil War, Neely worked as a bookkeeper for the town of Pulaski, Giles County. He married Louisa Ruth Whitley in 1866. She is listed in post war census records as Eliza R. McGrew. Neely later became a mechanic. He died June 9, 1923, and is buried at Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski.

Mf. 2010  -- Mississippi State Death Certificate Index, 1912-1943. MDA. 8 reels. 35mm.Microfilm Only Collection.
This is an index to the Mississippi death certificates from 1912 to 1943.

Mf. 2011  -- Donaldson Family Papers, 1819-2005. Marion County, Tenn. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
The Donaldson Family Papers span the period 1819-2005 with the bulk of the materials encompassing the years 1819-1889. The collection is composed of an abstract of the title of the land belonging to the New York and New Orleans Coal and Iron Company, four account books, and a history of the Donaldson family. The materials in this collection relate to the William E. Donaldson Law Firm in Jasper, Marion County, Tennessee.

The abstract is a brief description of title to the land belonging to the N.Y. & N.O. Coal and Iron Company. This is not the actual county lead record but rather a summary kept by the William E. Donaldson Law Firm. One item of interest is the Elizabeth Lowery Reservation. It is the first entry in the abstract and is dated June 23, 1819. The item states that she “intends to reside on her land” and asks that the Cherokee agent be notified of this. The Cherokee Treaty of February 27, 1819, allowed reservations for members. Each reservation was to be 640 acres square. The individuals given reservations had to notify the agent for the Cherokee nation, in writing, that they intended to reside permanently on the land reserved for them. Elizabeth Lowery was given a reservation in Tennessee.

The account books contain a list of the firm’s client balance sheets. There are four indexed account books.

The genealogical materials consist of printed matter, including a copy of “Donaldson Descendants.” This booklet details the descendants of William Donaldson (b. ca. 1738), and was compiled by Jonathan Mitchell Sweat. “A Partial History of the Donaldson Family, 1734 to 1842” is also included in the genealogical materials. It was written by William E. Donaldson with edits by Elizabeth Donaldson Ketner, Louise Gardiner Dunham, and Jonathan Mitchell Sweat.

William Edward Donaldson (1842-1919) was the son of William Donaldson (1811-1884) and Ellen Morris (1815-1864.) He joined the Confederate Army on April 17, 1861. Donaldson served in Company F, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., under Col. Peter Turney. He was severely wounded in the thigh at Fredericksburg, Virginia, and his injury left him crippled for the rest of his life. He is buried in the Hoge Cemetery in Marion County, Tennessee.

Mf. 2012  -- Liberty Reunited Predestinarian Baptist Church of Christ Account Book, Grave County, Kentucky, 1835-1894.
This account book consists of organizational minutes (including statements of faith and beliefs and “rules of decorum”), meeting minutes, and accounting logs.

The Liberty Reunited Predestinarian Baptist Church of Christ was organized in July 1835. It was located in Graves County, Kentucky, which shares a border with Henry and Weakley counties in Tennessee. The congregation was a member of the Obion County (Tenn.) Baptist Association.

Mf. 2013  -- Thomas S. Stribling Papers - Addition, 1911-1979. 1500 items. THS. 2 reels. 35 mm.
This is an addition (1911-1979) to the papers of T. S. Stribling (1881-1965), writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, and his wife, Louella Stribling, of Clifton. The collection includes clippings, correspondence, notebooks, writings, and other items. The register includes a name index to correspondence indicating date and content. See also Mf. 1029, Mf. 1213, Mf. 1413, Mf. 1482 and Mf. 1530 for additional Stribling papers.

Mf. 2014  -- Newell Family Papers, ca 1826-1955.  TSLA  .25 linear feet. 1 reel. 16mm.
The Newell Family Papers include correspondence, documents, a biographical account, genealogical data, ephemera, and photographs pertaining to the life of J.D.S. Newell and the history of the Newells and related families. Much of the contents pertain to Mississippi and Louisiana history, though some Newell family members lived in Clarksville and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The Newell Papers contain approximately 32 letters dating from 1879-1899, written from Jefferson Davis, Beauvoir, Mississippi, to John David Stokes Newell, attorney, St. Joseph, Tenasas Parish, Louisiana. The letters deal primarily with the management of Davis’ land holdings in Mississippi –day-to-day issues related to managers and tenants or “lessees”. Properties mentioned include Elkridge, Limerick, Cane Ridge, Brierfield, and Beauvoir.

Also included are 6 miscellaneous letters to or from J.D. Stokes Newell, 1881-1894 regarding business and family matters; approximately 11 miscellaneous family letters, 1826-76 (and 1955), several relating to the impact of the Civil War on family members; one slave bill of sale of a negro child (Julia) 1854, Natchez, Mississippi; one deed of gift for one negro slave woman (Matilda) and child (Walter), 1849, also in Natchez; genealogical data for the Newell and related families; Tirza Willson Patterson’s account of her early life in Virginia, from ca. 1850-1865, which includes vivid stories of life in Civil War-era Virginia; a ca. 1903 Field and Stream article about Miss Georgia Willson of Natchez, Mississippi and hunting on horseback over historic plantations; four photographs; ephemera items; and various receipts and notes kept by J.D.S. Newell regarding the sale of cotton, c. 1882-1883.

Mf. 2015  -- Daniel Graham Account Book, 1819-1866, and Slave Register, 1823-1863. 1 reel. 35mm. Microfilm Only Collection.
Two volumes, one containing financial accounts, and the other a slave register kept by Daniel Graham of Davidson and Rutherford Counties, Tennessee. The accounts include records regarding horse-breeding, personal loans to individuals, and a Bank of Tennessee log, which comprise approximately one-fourth of the account book, which spans the period 1819-1866. The account book (Vol. 1A) records substantial land transactions involving three prominent Tennesseans. David McGavock, John C. McLemore, and Judge John Catron. McGavock, an early Nashville settler and Register of the Land Office, amassed vast acreage in Middle Tennessee. McLemore was an intimate friend of Andrew Jackson, a founder of Memphis, and once served as surveyor general of the state. The jurist Catron became a justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.

The slave register (Vol. 1B) is paginated and spans the period 1823-1863. It documents the lives of more than 70 slaves and contains yearly comments on each individual. In most cases Graham devoted an entire page to each slave, and included information such as: name, age, condition of health, marriage, children, vaccinations, work location, and price and place of purchase. The last page in the register contains three lists pertaining to the slaves: those who were sold, those who died, and those given away.

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Mf. 2017  -- Land Grants South of the Walker Line, 1825-1923.  6 reels.  35mm.  Microfilm Only Collection.
Walker’s Line is the boundary that runs between Tennessee and Kentucky which has had a history of controversy. On the microfilm are an index to the grants, eight grant books, and a book of surveys. The microfilm was prepared by the Kentucky Office of the Secretary of State.

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