Audio excerpt of Jewel Allen oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses how he used to bottom chairs during the winters while his wife pieced quilts. His wife taught him to piece quilts and she...
Jewel Allen standing in front of two of his quilts. Dressed in a white t-shirt and blue slacks, Allen stands on two crutches as he is missing his right leg below the knee. A white house appears in the background.
Audio excerpt of Jewel Allen oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses how his wife learned to quilt from her family and how he began quilting himself. People have offered to buy his quilts, but he...
Quilt made by Jewel Allen. The quilt has a pattern of concentric squares. The colors used in the quilt are mostly blues but include some pinks, reds, and greens.
Special Field Order No. 69 from Headquarters, Department of the Cumberland, calling for creation of a commission to investigate damages sustained by Nashville citizens and their property during Federal occupation.
Military officers; Militias; Military maneuvers; Military facilities; Military camps
Brigadier General Smith, Major General Pritchard, Major General Roderick R. Allen, Brigadier General Jacob McGavock Dickinson and other unnamed officers from the Tennessee State Guard observing firepower demonstrations from the sidelines. The...
"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,...
This page includes a mock certificate or award that Mitchener has given to himself for winning the "So You Want to Lead the Band" quiz program. The certificate reads,"Saturday Nite Jamboree - This is to Certify that Hardy A. Mitchener is Hep to...
Letter from Gamble Rutledge to his father, G. R. Rutledge, concerning his brother Robert's regiment, his parents' desire to move to Georgia, his brigade's activities, his desire to change his position in the regiment, and the status of his wounded...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
5th Tenn. Confederate Veterans. The photograph was taken in front of the Confederate Memorial in Paris, Tennessee. An inscription on the back lists the following individuals: "Top row: A. H. Hancock, J. W. Bowden, Pack Orr, J. Watt Allen, Jack...
Confederate veterans' reunion at New Friendship Church in Henderson County (now Chester County), Tennessee. The children of Allen Kincaid Jones and young people with musical instruments are included in the image.
Memphis Novelty Works sword made by Leech and Rigdon. It is a field officer's foot sword. The sword belonged to Capt. Beverly Allen Fitzgerald from the 22nd Tenn. Inf. Bn., CSA. It is engraved with his name and where he is from. At the time of...
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,...
Special Orders No. 54 appointing a military commission to convene at the Pulaski courthouse for "the trial of persons as may be properly brought before it." Maj. C. H. Bures, 16th Ill. Cav., Capt. Erwin Ellis, 8th Mich. Cav., Capt. Joseph Hasty,...
Account of the Battle of Fort Donelson written by William T. Rasbury (born 1914). The story was told to him by his great grandfather, John Allen Walker.
