Four-page form in which William Mitchell, agent of David Bales, files claim for ten bushels of corn taken by the 9th Michigan Regiment in October 1865 for use by the Federal Army. The initial filing occurred April 22, 1868. Also contained in the...
Marriage certificate for Charles Harrell and Sally Henderson, "colored." The marriage certificate is from Madison County, Tennessee, issued December 28, 1868. The marriage was solemnized January 5, 1869.
Small, orange paper "ticket" advertising Republican candidates in the campaign of 1868: Ulysses S. Grant for president, presidential electors (including Dewitt Clinton Senter), and Samuel M. Arnell for Congress. Also listed are electors for...
Transcription of the diary of John Duncan of the University of the South. The diary has been typed on carbon paper. The diary includes only the year 1868.
Illustration in "Harper's Weekly," March 28, 1868, p. 193, shows President Andrew Johnson, attended by Col. W. G. Brown, being served an impeachment summons by George T. Brown, Sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, in the White House.
Ticket no. 250 admits the bearer to the Gallery of the United States Senate, for the trial of Impeachment against the President of the United States (President Andrew Johnson). The ticket is signed by George T. Brown, Sergeant-at-Arms for the U.S....
Ticket no. 335 admits the bearer to the Gallery of the United States Senate for the trial of the Impeachment of the President of the United States (President Andrew Johnson). The ticket is signed by George T. Brown, Sergeant-at-Arms for the U.S....
llustration depicting the failed impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson, in which Radical Republicans are represented by a dead horse. Several individuals involved in the proceedings hold their noses against the "smell," including...
Steel engraving consisting of images of President Andrew Johnson and members of his immediate Cabinet (Stanton, Seward, Chase, and Welles), with a heraldic eagle at the top and a depiction of the United States Capitol at the bottom.
Invitation to the memorial service for former U. S. President Andrew Johnson (deceased), to be held in Nashville, Tennesseee, October 2, 1875. Former United States Senator Joseph S. Fowler of Tennessee is to deliver an address on "the life,...
Photograph of Mathew McCauley, seated and wearing a dark suit. McCauley was almost hung and his grist mill and saw mill were burned because he was a Confederate sympathizer. He fathered 13 children, the last at age 77.
Voter registration certificate for Confederate veteran J. L. Gee. Gee served as a private in Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA. The registration is signed by W. T. Rice, Comm'r of Registration for Tipton County, Tenn.
Marian McAlister Sawrie (October 20,1845 - February 6, 1891), married Wililam S. Sawrie on February 13, 1868, and died in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photograph was taken when she was 16.
Photograph of Pinewood Mansion, which was built from 1866 to 1868. The house was built by Samuel Graham, who left North Carolina in 1832 and eventually settled in Hickman County. The Pinewood Plantation was established in 1848 as a mill site....
Photograph of Pinewood Mansion, which was built from 1866 to 1868. The house was built by Samuel Graham, who left North Carolina in 1832 and eventually settled in Hickman County. The Pinewood Plantation was established in 1848 as a mill site....
Six page letter highlights conditions that the author deems unpleasant and unsafe for Northern men and freedmen in Nashville during the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. He is writing to an unknown addressee, who, from the...
