Silver spoon that belonged to the Thornton family of Barnesville, Georgia. According to family legend, the spoon was part of a set that was buried to prevent Gen. Sherman and his troops from taking it. The silver was distributed among family...
Wooden spoon hand carved by John Marshall Akin, Co. B, 53rd Ga. Inf. Regt., Simms' Brigade, McClaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps. Akin, a resident of Barnesville, Ga, served one year in the army. He then served three years as a hospital nurse...
Letter from Robert A. Rutledge to Mary Minerva Rutledge concerning the climate and his living conditions, provisions, and financial situation. He attempts to dissuade his father from visiting him at the camp but expresses his weariness of the war...
Letter from Robert Rutledge describing a Union cavalry raid on his camp in which several men were wounded or captured and also a fight beween Harry Henry and an artilleryman in the camp. He asks about the condition of Mr. Runion, who has small pox;...
School buses; Vehicles; Transportation; Buildings; Schools
A passenger bus labeled "Tennessee School For The Deaf." It is parked in front of the Administration Building on the campus of the school. It is an all-steel, 28-passenger Wayne body on an International chassis, acquired for the school by its...
