Collection, 1737-ca. 1904, (bulk 1803-1865).

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Collection, 1737-ca. 1904, (bulk 1803-1865).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39862573

Major George B. Cockrell, C.S.A., secured the private papers of a number of leading local citizens in Claiborne County, Tennessee, and Lee County, Virginia, consisting of letters, invoices, orders, and requisitions of these citizens in connection with their private business and with the Civil War around Cumberland Gap. Letters and documents of both armies are represented in the collection of Civil War sources. Among the 18th century documents are various statements of accounts, receipts, a letter written by Stephen Renaud, of Kensington (March 25, 1779), and the handwritten wills of: George Williams of Fairfax County, Virginia (1780) and a resident of the County of York (1737).

.26 cubic ft. (1 box)

Lincoln Memorial University Library, Carnegie-Vincent Library

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Lincoln Memorial University Library, Carnegie-Vincent Library

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Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...

Cockrell, George B.

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Confederate officer, lived for a number of years at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, following the industrial development of 1890. From the description of Papers, 1874-1904. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 39862962 From the description of Collection, 1737-ca. 1904, (bulk 1803-1865). (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 39862573 ...

Trigg family.

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