Certificate of executive pardon for Aaron L. Mims, Cocke County, Tenn., by President Andrew Johnson. It is cosigned by William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
Letter to (sister) Cleopatra Robinson from (brother) Aaron Boyd Robinson regarding some of the soldiers that she knew. Aaron later became a doctor and moved to Murfreesboro, Rutherford County. Cleopatra married J. F. Rickman, who had been a...
This letter by Eliza Jane McReynolds of Blount County, Tennessee, to her brother Capt. Aaron McReynolds, USA, provides news of family and crops from home. Aaron Gamble McReynolds enlisted in Co. H, 2nd Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. On June 4, 1864, he was...
Quartermaster account, Confederate States, to Mr. Aaron Lambert for 11,840 pounds of hay. The amount of hay purchased during the month of July was 11,840 pounds of hay at $2.50 per 100 pounds- a payment of $296.00 to Aaron Lambert certified by...
Mollie McReynolds Grisham wrote this letter to her cousin, 2nd Lt. Aaron Gamble McReynolds, who had enlisted in Co. H, 2nd Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. On June 4, 1864, he was appointed Captain of Co. D, 2nd Tenn. Cav., USA. He died in the Battle of...
Lt. Aaron Gamble McReynolds wrote this letter to his brother in Blount County, Tenn., from Murfreesboro, Tenn. Camped near Stones River, he described the condition of several mutual acquaintances and advised his brother on volunteering. Lt....
Photograph (copy) taken four months after previous photograph (wash004) of Capt. Aaron Gamble McReynolds, USA, shows the effect of the hardships of war. (This copy accompanies wash001, wash002, wash003.)
General Ulysses S. Grant on Lookout Mountain near Missionary Ridge in 1863. Four men in uniform pose near the edge of the cliff, while one sits further back on the path. The other four are identified, left to right, as General John A. Rawlins,...
Orders issued by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant appointing Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield of Co. A, 4th Regt., Minn. Inf. Vols., USA, Orderly Sgt., in the 12th Regt. of Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent. Signed by John Aaron Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant...
Model 1860 U.S. staff and field officer's sword manufactured by Springfield Armory and Southern Cross belonging to William Fairchild Dennis Jr. (October 17, 1845 - June 9, 1927). Dennis served with the Raymond Minute Men of Hinds County,...
