Copy of 1832 foot artillery sword. This sword was made in the 1860s as a copy of a 1832 foot artillery sword. It was made by a Confederate manufacturer.
Muster roll of Captain A. J. McWhirter's Company, 18th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, C. S. A.. Captain McWhirter later became the Commissioner of Agriculture of Tennessee.
Letter from William G. Harding, Neill S. Brown, and J. S. Briley to Major General Gideon Pillow about military supplies on behalf of the Military and Financial Board of Tennessee.
Letter to Nancy Susan Clack from her husband Spencer Clack written from Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. Transcription included. Spencer Clack was in Company B, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment.
Model 1850 foot officer's sword. Evidence of acid-etched engraving. No maker's mark. This item belonged to the family of Warner Bass. Mr. Blackman Dunn of Grassmere was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. This sword and watch were sent home.
William Hodge captured this Confederate canteen. Wooden barrel stave canteen hand-painted by the owner, William Henry Olds Hodge, Company I, 5th Kansas Cavalry from Coffey County, Kansas. Inscription: "This canteen was taken on the 4th of July 1863...
Letter from Margaret McClarty Maxwell to her husband, Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873), defending the scarcity and brevity of her previous letters and relaying family news. They had nine children.
