A .40 caliber rifle that belonged to Pvt. William A. Dycus, Co. D, 28th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Dycus was 16 years old when he enlisted in November 1862.
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...
Colt model 1862 police revolver with a half rebated cylinder. It is a 5 shot .36 caliber. Its serial number is 20067. It was reported to have been used during the Civil War. The revolver belonged to Capt. William Armstead Marshall, CSA.
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...
Letter, written shortly after the end of the Scopes Trial, sent to former governor Malcolm R. Patterson by Nashville Tennessean managing editor and Governor Austin Peay advisor, Truman Alexander. Alexander sought to inform Patterson of William...
Listed as the Lillard School in the State Board of Education Records, this photograph has been identified by Maryville natives as the William J. Hale School. The building is a large imposing brick structure situated on a hill. At the time the...
Abstract of provisions issued from the 1st day of November 1862 to the 1st day of December 1862 to sick in hospital. Wainwright notes that he compared the specifics for subsistence actually required in hospital.
One-page printed and handwritten abstract of provisions form, submitted by Lieutenant William Alonzo Wainwright, Regimental Quartermaster of the 75th Indiana Infantry and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence, for subsistence stores sold to officers...
Acknowledgement from Office of Commissary General of Subsistence to Lieutenant William Wainwright, 75th Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Chattanooga, Tennessee, that his Returns of Commissary Property for July, August, September, October, and November...
Broadside advertising a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King at the War Memorial Building, a benefit concert by Harry Belafonte and Troupe at the Ryman Auditorium, a meeting of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and an address by Spottswood...
Affidavit of W. T. Robinson signed by William C. Rawola, Notary Public, on the status of property lost by Company K, 5th Tennessee Cavalry, including one axe and eight horses, to accompany a statement of differences in the Quartermaster's Stores...
Printed and handwritten one-page Form No. 27, List of Quartermaster's Stores, has been altered by Lieutenant Wingate T. Robinson to reflect a transfer of serviceable and unserviceable horses from his Commander, Captain E. W. Bass of Company K, 5th...
Seven unidentified persons (three women and four men). According to information attached to photograph one of the men is Jesse Louis Lasky and another is his son, William Raymond Lasky. The older man in double-breasted suit is probably the senior...
Rear view of two homes at a 45-degree angle to each other. There are three unidentified persons in the photograph (two men and one woman). A picket fence surrounds both homes. One house has a back porch where a man and woman are standing. The other...
Merriman was from Hawkins County, Tennessee, and served in Co. B., 60th Tennessee Volunteers. He was captured at Big Black River, Mississippi, and held at Point Lookout, Maryland, as a prisoner of war. Later he enlisted in the Union army to fight...
