Patent medicines; Pamphlets; Leaflets; Government officials; Advertising; Promotional materials
Brochure advertising a patent medicine named "Taylor's Cherokee Remedy." Included in the booklet are line drawings of major Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. Also included are several poems and...
Enlisted in Company E, 18th Infantry, May 29, 1861, at Camp Cheatham. He was captured at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, and sent to Camp Butler prisoner of war camp in Illinois. He was parolled and was killed at New Hope Church on May 16, 1864....
Charles T. Swindler was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and taken to Andersonville Prison. He enlisted on September 18, 1861, and mustered out February 21, 1865. He was a member of the 7th Indiana Infantry and fought at Gettysburg.
Givens, an Assistnt Surgeon attached to 1st Division, writing from the Rains House in Nashville, Tenn. on December 18, 1864, describing the aftermath of Battle of Nashville and his treatment of wounded troops.
Tintype of Russell Lasetor Brown of Co. H, 16th Inf., CSA. He is holding his musket and Colt revolver. Brown was born in Warren County, Tennessee, on October 24, 1842. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 18, 1861.
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...
Application for the Association of Confederate Soldiers for John W. Hods (born Havins County, Georgia) who was a private in Co. D, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Army of Tennessee. Bivouac No. 18.
Letter from George Franklin Robinson to his wife, Elvira Jane Griffin, following the Battle of Gettysburg, July 18, 1863. Robinson draws a map of his unit's march from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In the letter, he says:...
Map of G. F. Robinson unit's (and the Army of Northern Virginia's) march from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and back to Virginia. See TSLA Mf. 1969 for all G. F. Robinson letters.
James Tinker's account for dry goods bought of J. A. Wilds & Sons in Jonesborough, Tennessee, in exchange for corn and bear skins, March 18, 1858. See also A. Christine Tipton's book, "Civil War in the Mountains."
Henry M4C that belonged to John Oliver Wall. John Oliver Wall was born December 18, 1843, in Carroll County, Tennessee. He died on February 24, 1899, in Carroll County, Tennessee. He fought in the Civil War.
Hunting rifle that belonged to John Oliver Wall. Wall was born December 18, 1843, in Carroll County, Tennessee. He died February 24, 1899, in Carroll County, Tennessee. He fought in the Civil War.
Photograph of Pvt. William Joshua Thomas Sr., Hale's (later Jackson's) Battery, Va. Lt. Arty., CSA, in civilian clothing. Thomas enlisted April 18, 1863, at Dublin. He was captured August 7, 1864, at Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia) and...
Jones wrote this letter at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to his brother Charles Patton Jones and Charles's wife, Polly. He noted Union and Confederate troop numbers and movement, and listed the prices of items like flour, sugar, meat, and boots. George...
