$500 Confederate bond: "Two years after the Ratification of a Treaty between the Confederate States & United States the C.S.A. will pay to the bearer on demand $500." Handed down in the family from Sherman Blair.
Inscription and cover page of "Rifle and Infantry Tactics, Vol. I." The tome is touted as being "the only copy-right edition." It has a notice from W. J. Hardee, Colonel, Confederate States Army, inside the front cover. The notice was written from...
Inscription and cover page of "Rifle and Infantry Tactics, Vol. II." The tome is touted as being "the only copy-right edition." It has a notice from W. J. Hardee, Colonel, Confederate States Army, inside the front cover. The notice was written from...
Handwritten diary (selected pages) of William Fisher, Co. C, 11th (Holman's) Tennessee Cavalry. Gives Mr. Fisher's 1864 account as a soldier in Army of Tennessee at Battles of Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Nashville and subsequent retreat. Includes his...
43rd Tennessee Veterans Reunion. Pictured are J. C. Giles, J. W. Whipple, Lt. J. S. Ferguson, Capt. John Tonkin, A. A. Williams, J. L. Rigsby, J. L. Stigar, G. H. Wade, T. J. Robinson, J. C. Watson, W. S. Roddy, J. M. Culton, J. E. Stiger, A. J....
Broadside calls Tennesseans to arms against the "hired and ruffian soldiers" of the North. "The Yankee War is now being waged for beauty and booty." Signed by J. B. Murray and H. C. Witt. Most likely a reproduction.
Stone monument of a riderless horse at Chickamauga Battlefield Park near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Carving on monument reads, "First Wisconsin Cavalry, 2nd Brig. 1st Div. Cavalry Corps."; Descriptive text on the reverse side of postcard.
Newspaper clipping declaring "Saturday Tag Day for York." The article announces that all Nashvillians will have an opportunity to help the hero by giving money to a fund which would pay the mortgage on the York farm. The article includes a list of...
Newspaper clipping featuring a headline stating Sergeant York would be preaching Sunday at the Belmont Methodist Church in the morning and the Pentecostal Church in the evening. The article states that large crowds are expected and a major...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to the nation concerning the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936 is reproduced in the 1937 Civilian Conservation Corps Yearbook with the Civilian Conservation Corps insignia at the bottom of the page,...
Alvin C. York's heroism went unnoticed in the United States, even in Tennessee, until the publication of the April 26, 1919, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. In an article titled "The Second Elder Gives Battle" (pp. 1-4 ff.), journalist George...
The poem, printed in the Nashville Tennessean, recounts a dramatized version of Sergeant York's taking of the German machine gun position. The poem makes numerous biblical references as well as listing other prominent Tennessee military figures,...
llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
Newspaper clipping requesting donations to pay off the $12,500 mortgage of the farm purchased by the Nashville Rotary Club and presented to Alvin York for his exploits in World War I. It encourages everyone to make a donation to York, declaring...
Article from unidentified newspaper is entitled "Wedding Bells for Sergt. York" and written by R. G. Fields. It describes the bride, "seventeen," her father, "A. F. Williams, former circuit court clerk of Fentress County," and some of the wedding...
