Four-page letter written on Fort Campbell stationery by Christopher Ammons from basic training to his family. He details gathering together some items and visiting a museum, but the majority of the letter describes and lauds PVT Smith (Smitty)....
Ammons's four-page letter on U.S. Army stationery to his mother and father describes his first days in the Army. He relates the military routine, getting his dog tags, standing fire watch, and waiting for his uniform. He remarks on the fact that...
The document is a six page, unnumbered handwritten document found in the "Acts of the Southwest Territory." It is dated September 27, 1794 and signed by Governor William Blount and Secretary David Wilson.
Carte de visite of Gen. Joseph Horace Lewis. Lewis was commander of Gen. John C. Breckenridge's Orphan Brigade, comprised of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 9th Ky. Inf. Regts. along with two batteries of artillery. After the war, Lewis was elected to...
Portrait of William Preston Graves (Febraury 2, 1841 - January 20, 1889) seated in uniform. Graves was a captain in the U.S. Army. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He married Hetty Scott of...
Christopher Ammons with Pvt. Smith (Smitty), a 35-year-old veteran of the Korean War who volunteered for Vietnam. The faces of the two soldiers are complete but the picture, which was probably torn from a photo-booth strip, has jagged edges at top...
Letter from William R. Jackson to Julia B. Jackson discussing Union affairs in Kentucky, rebel prisoners, "enlistment of negroes, and the 47th Kentucky Infantry USA.
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Certificate of discharge from the Army of Tennessee for David A. Hickerson, a private in Captain James H. Lewis's Company C, 2nd Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry. At the time of discharge, he was 26 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, fair complexion, gray...
Discharge certificate for Sgt. John Wesley McDonough, 12th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA He enrolled in the army in Feb. 1863 in Nashville and was discharged in July 1865. The sergeant was born in Alabama but lived in Pinewood, Hickman Co. He was 29 years...
Hand-drawn ink & watercolor of Rock Island Prison by J. M. Breeding. Possibly created for Christian Buhler, who was in the prison for 17 months and 12 days in Barracks #5. Drawing shows barracks, stockade & parapets, horses, guards, a burial...
Duplicate form representing an official contract recorded in the Freedman Employment Office in Louisville, Kentucky, between an employer and a freedman. A specific period of employment is outlined, along with provisions for quarters and medicines,...
Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...
Copyprint of George Hampton, Co. G., 16th US Colored Inf. Regt. Hampton was born in Warren Co., Ky. He mustered in at Clarksville, Tenn., February 16, 1864 and attained the rank of sergeant in October 1865. He died December 28, 1908, and is buried...
