1st Lt. W. P. Anthony, Co. C, 30th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, wrote to his wife Bettie Anderson of Hartsville, Tenn. from Johnson's Island Prison in Lake Erie, Ohio, sharing news about prison life and family. The envelope has examiner markings from the...
A Tennessee Board of Natural Resources map of Hardeman County based on surveys by C. R. Watkins, Jr. in 1916 and C. C. Anderson and R. Perrin in 1921. Shows towns, roads, railroads, streams, drainage canals, residences, churches, schools, and...
Beechland in Cages Bend, near Gallatin, Tennessee. The white-sided home is partially obscured by trees. A white fence runs the length of the photograph. Polly Shute, the nurse, stands with her hands on her hips. Two young girls, Janie and Emma,...
Carte de visite showing Major Joseph J. Cooper, Company F, 39th Regiment Volunteer Massachusetts Militia, USA. Cooper, looking away from the camera, is standing with one hand tucked into the front of his uniform coat. Cooper enlisted in the...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Civilian Conservation Corps dining hall in Powells Station, Tennessee. An inscription on the back reads: "This camp on Morris Freeway Hwy #441 at Knox & Anderson county line." "Sent by Otto F. Haslbauer Norris" is also written on the back of the...
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
Confederate veteran Jordan McCauley, Private, Co. G,10th Tennessee Cavalry, pictured with his children John, Lamora McCauley Moore, Willie, Bettie, George (br), and Demmie,Joanne, and Fannie (fr). McCauley was a teamster during the Civil War.
Democratic Primary Board election returns signed by Alvin York as Chairman of the Democratic Primary Board of Fentress County. The return features the primary votes for Horton and Gwinn for Governor; Dodson, Hull, and Todd for U.S. Senator (long...
Discharge certificate for James C. Mates, Company A, 101st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, USA. Mates survived Andersonville prison. James C. Mates' diary is available on microfilm as TSLA Mf. 1972.
Discharge certificate for James C. Mates, Private, Company A, 101st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, USA. Mates enlisted on August 25, 1862 for a period of three years. He was captured and survived Andersonville prison. James C. Mates'...
