Photomontage picturing President Andrew Johnson, "Seventeenth President of the United States," his tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, and his tailor's "goose and shears."
Certificate issued by Judge Advocate Gray certifying that Lieutenant Colonel John E. McGowan was in attendance of the General Courts-martial from June 14 to July 26, 1865, in accordance with Special Order No. 127.
A one page, typed petition to Governor Austin Peay in support of Tennessee's anti-evolution law. The letter is on the letterhead of the Sunday school teacher, J.W. Howard.
Capitol structure of the "State of Franklin," an attempted community of settlers from Virginia and North Carolina who hoped to settle in the area which became East Tennessee.
Presumed birthplace of President Andrew Johnson in Raleigh, North Carolina. Johnson is said to have been born in this house on December 29, 1809, at its original location on Fayetteville Street. In 1909, the Colonial Dames of America purchased...
Shortened and refurbished saber owned by George Washington Brown, Company A, 53rd Kentucky Infantry in Covington, Kentucky. Brown enlisted on September 12, 1964. He was promoted to Sergeant Major on November 11, 1864, and Second Lieutenant on June...
Clothing accounts for 1st Sergeant W. Clinton Lewis, Sergeant Charles Thompson, and Sergeant Norman McLeod all of Company G, 60th Regiment, New York Volunteers.
Letter from Milo B. Stevens & Company attorney asking Lavina Bird, widow of David Bird, for additional support for her widow's pension application. Mrs. Bird's application was rejected by the War Department because she could not substantiate his...
Membership certificate of Andrew J. Brown from the Grand Army of the Republic. Brown is listed as a Lieutenant Colonel with the 8th Tennessee Cavalry and served for one year and eight months.
