Photograph in frame of Richard Henry Horner. The Horner family was from Warrenton, Virginia. He was in the cavalry and married Virginia Smith Cary on 1/11/1872. See also, "History of the Blair, Bannister and Braxton Families before and after the...
Letter from Mary Hull, a lady assisting wounded at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to the Rev. Asa Routh, a Baptist minister and father-in-law of Wiley Bartlett, announcing Bartlett's death the day before (October 14, 1864)
Carte-de-visite of Dr. James W. Smith, credited with helping Nathan Bedford Forrest and some 2500 C.S.A. troops escape before the Confederate surrender at Fort Donelson in February 1862.
Civil War era gun made before the war. The gun was originally made as a flint lock. The U. S. Army (between 1842 and the 1850s) took on a conversion project to convert flint locks to percussion guns.
Tintype of Thomas Stewart. Stewart was born in Quebec, Canada, and his family later moved to Indiana. Stewart enlisted in Co. A, 12th Indiana Infantry Regiment, USA. He was captured at the Battle of Atlanta. Stewart was a POW at Andersonville,...
CSA envelope depicting Jefferson Davis. The envelope also contains the following verse: "March to the battle field, The foe is on before us, Each heart is Freedom's shield, And Heaven's smile is o'er us."
Crayon print of William Humphrey Hardison (1841-1870), Co. H., 1st Tennessee Infantry CSA. Son of Asa and Mary Ann Hardison. Having survived the war and just before his 30th birthday, Hardison was ambushed and killed by a neighbor over a property...
Quilt that was buried in the side of Clinch Mountatin during the Civil War. It is hand-quilted and hand-appliqued, by appliqueing pieces on a solid piece of fabric.
Issued by the Memphis postmaster, M. C. Gallaway, these two-cent stamps were printed early in the Civil War and used for local delivery or printed circulars. They were improvised postage used before the Confederate government began printing stamps.
Letter from Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th (Brown's) Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his wife Nancy. The letter was written at the start of the 55th's encampment on Island No. 10, less than one month before its surrender to Union Gen. John Pope...
Hickman County courthouse, 1845-1925. The courthouse would have been in operation during the Civil War, although this photograph dates from much later. The tree pictured in the image may be a water maple.
Ambrotype case and image of Capt. S. K. P. House, Co. B and Co. F, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. The photograph was taken before the Civil War. House enlisted as a 1st Lt. and rose to captain during the war.
An unknown soldier from Mississippi carried this watch during the Civil War. "Benjamin" is scratched on the inside of the watch case. Fastened to the chain is a key for winding the watch. A small silver revolver was attached later.
This pro-Confederate paper, like many such papers on the run from Federal advance during the war, was published in at least five Southern cities during the Civil War. This issue, printed a month before Appomattox, comes from Montgomery, Ala. x.
