Sword belonging to Edwin L. Higgins (24 January 1873 to 1 July 1875). Born in Missouri. Served w/Co. I, 7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, USA. (90 days). Served with Co. K, 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was wounded at Vicksburg. He was...
Letter from Assistant Adjutant General W. T. Clarke from the War Department, Office of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land, concerning the terms of returning the home of J. E. Bailey to its owner after the army used it as a hospital.
Carte-de-visite of Kinloch Falconer of Holly Springs, Mississippi. He was the Assistant Adjutant of the Army of Tennessee, CSA, rank of major. Falconer died of yellow fever in September 1878 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
Letter from Maj. Gen. Breckinridge (through his adjutant Lt. Col. John A. Buckner) to Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in LaVergne requesting that a cavalry unit under Capt. Atkinson report to Columbia.
Discharge paper for Isaac Cornett, Company I, 13th Tennessee Cavalry. Adjutant General's Office form #99. Enlisted August 19,1864 and mustered out September 5, 1865. Appointed captain on August 1, 1865.
Document dated July 30th, 1863, assigning Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield as Orderly Sgt., 12th La. Inf. Regt., Vols. of African Descent. Signed by T. S. Binert, Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Chatfield had been...
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...
Military commission for 2nd Lt. Archibald B. McLean (misspelled as McLane), Co. C, 57th Regt., Ill. Vols., USA. Commissioned by Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois. The commission began on June 7, 1862, and is registered in book A,...
William Summerfield Sawrie, Acting Adjutant General in Goran's Brigade, with hands clasped. Image is set in a frame. Uniform and spurs of Sawrie are in the Carter House in Franklin, Tennessee.
Harris served as 1st Lt., Co. A, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the Newbern Blues, under Col. Tyree Bell of Dyer County. He also served as Adjutant for Col. Robert Russell. Information on the back of the photograph identifies this as a...
43rd Tennessee Veterans Reunion. Pictured are J. C. Giles, J. W. Whipple, Lt. J. S. Ferguson, Capt. John Tonkin, A. A. Williams, J. L. Rigsby, J. L. Stigar, G. H. Wade, T. J. Robinson, J. C. Watson, W. S. Roddy, J. M. Culton, J. E. Stiger, A. J....
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard both serving food and standing in line to receive a meal inside the Clarksville Armory. A small boy is pictured at the front of the line. This barbecue followed the September 10, 1944 military...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Five uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are seated as they eat their barbecue in the Clarksville Armory. The meal was served following the military program staged at the facility by the 2nd Regiment of the Tennessee State Guard on...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are in the foreground of this image. They and the civilian spectators pictured behind them are standing outside the Clarksville Armory watching the various spectacles and demonstrations that are;...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Military officers; Militias; Grenades; Firearms; Rifles; Bayonets; Gas warfare; Tear gas; Chemicals
Outside the Clarksville Armory a crowd is pictured gathered around Tennessee State Guard soldiers who are giving a talk on weaponry. Displayed on a blanket on the ground in front of them are a variety of rifles and gas canisters. One Guard member...
Orders announcing the Confederate victory at Hartsville, Tennessee, December 7, 1862, detailing how the victory was won and thanking all soldiers and officers for their contributions.
Broadsides; Posters; Political posters; Political elections; Political campaigns
Large campaign poster urging the public to vote for the Democratic nominees: Cordell Hull, Henry Hollis Horton, William Emerson Brock and H. H. Hannah. There is a picture of each candidate on the poster. The election is to be held on November 4,...
One-page document recording the retirement from military service of Jesse West of Smith County, Tennessee. The certificate provides West's rank, company, civilian occupation, and physical description. It is signed by three Confederate surgeons.
Draft; Recruiting & enlistment; Soldiers; Government officials
Sergeant Alvin C. York is talking with Major Hilton Butler at the Fentress County draft office at Jamestown. Both men are in business suits and are shown with paperwork, a stamp by a filing cabinet, and a 1940 calendar behind them.
