This twenty-dollar Confederate bank note, No. 32632 was, printed in Richmond, Virginia. The front shows the Tennessee State Capitol, with an image of CSA Vice President Alexander Stephens in the lower right corner.
This Grand Army of the Republic veteran medal belonged to Pvt. William Wilkerson Masters of Co. M, 8th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. He walked with his brother Alexander to Knoxville to join the Union army and served from May 31, 1863, until September 11,...
This Confederate twenty-dollar note, printed Richmond, Va., has a center image of the Tennessee State Capitol and Vice President Alexander Stephens in the lower right corner. It was found in the Morrell family Bible in Jonesborough, Tenn.
Pvt. Alexander B. Walker was in the 12th (Day's) Tenn. Cav. Bn., CSA, and part of the January 1863 retreat of Bragg's army from Murfreesboro, Tenn. In describing the battle, Walker wrote, "I have seen the elephent [sic]," a common phrase among...
Reproduction portrait of a period tintype. The original was a hand-tinted photograph of 1st Lt. Charles A. Nash, 97th Tenn. Militia. He was a teamster during the war and a blacksmith in civilian life. Nash was born in 1828 and died in 1909. He was...
Alexander, who served in the 1st Tenn. Arty., Rutledge's Co. (Battery), is pictured with family members and others on porch of the Dickson Hotel (later called Alexander Hotel and future site of Halbrook Hotel), holding a couple of male turkeys.
Alexander served in the 1st Tenn. Artillery, Rutledge's Company (Battery). He is pictured here after the war with his wife and family. Photographed by J. T. Moore of Dickson, Tenn.
Letter written at Carnton Plantation, Franklin, Tennessee, from Dr. Alexander Jackson to his wife, Unis Jackson, in Jackson, Tenessee, describing Colonel McGavock's Confederate cemetery from the Battle of Franklin.
"The Fugitive: A Magazine of Poetry from the South," Published in Nashville, Tenn., was published from April 1922 to December 1925. Contributors to this issue: Witter Bynner, Donald Davidson, William Frierson, Robert Graves, Sidney M. Hirsch,...
Letter from Mary Minerva Rutledge to her sister concerning the health of an individual named "Green," the mischievous activities of "Lincolnites," and her husband Robert Rutledge.
Letter, written shortly after the end of the Scopes Trial, sent to former governor Malcolm R. Patterson by Nashville Tennessean managing editor and Governor Austin Peay advisor, Truman Alexander. Alexander sought to inform Patterson of William...
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.
