Items related Mack J. Leaming [Decimalized .01-.06]

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Includes Leaming's typed manuscript signed describing the Battle of Fort Pillow, family photographs, and the House of Representatives report on Fort Pillow.

GLC#
GLC05080
Type
Header Record
Date
1860-1893
Title
Items related Mack J. Leaming [Decimalized .01-.06]
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
6 items
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson
Leaming, Mack J., 1842-1893
Civil War
Military History
Union Forces
African American History
African American Troops
Slavery
Atrocity
Massacre
Prisoner of War
Confederate General or Leader
Confederate States of America
Battle
Battle of Fort Pillow (Fort Pillow Massacre)
Morality and Ethics
Surrender
Death

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GLC05080.01
Collection Item
Typed document signed

[Unpublished manuscript relating events of the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee]

15 April 1893

Leaming, Mack J., 1842-1893

Colonel Leaming, former Adjutant of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry, reports the graphic details of the 12 April 1864 Battle of Fort Pillow. Describes Fort Pillow as "the stormy days, when, added to the ordinary intensity of civil strife, the masters for...

GLC05080.01
Collection Item
Photograph signed

[Mack J. Leaming]

1864 March 8

Leaming is depicted in uniform. An inscription describes Leaming as 1st Lieutenant, Adjutant of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. Inscribed to Eva. E. Goulet of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

GLC05080.02
Collection Item
Photograph

[Post-war carte de visite of Mack J. Leaming]

February 15, 1872

Latour, William, fl. 1852-1872

Signed "Mack," by Leaming. Depicts Leaming, who served during the Civil War as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 13th Tennessee Cavalry at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. He is portrayed wearing a long beard and civilian clothing. Leaming's signed...

GLC05080.03
Collection Item
Photograph

[Photograph of the Leaming sons]

1860 December

Scott, William M., fl. 1860-1890

Includes six sons of (Polly or Marry) Tucker Leaming and D. M. Leaming. Inferring from their clothing, this photograph was likely taken, along with GLC05080.05, at a December 1860 family reunion. According to a list of names written in blue ink on...

GLC05080.04
Collection Item
Photograph

[Leaming family reunion photograph]

1860 December

Includes several detached pieces which appear to be original backing. A note written in blue ink on one piece of backing states that this photograph depicts Edward, Rusle, Charry, Silas T., Lucy, Mack J., Jude, Anna Gould (oldest child), Charles...

GLC05080.05
Collection Item
Book

[House report no. 65 regarding the Fort Pillow massacre and no. 67 regarding returned prisoners of war]

1864

United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1864)

Contains a full report of the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, based on an investigation of the battle itself, as well as the operations of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest "and his command immediately preceding and subsequent...

GLC05080.06