Hand-drawn map of West Tennessee executed by B. J. Radford, cartographer with 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th (?) Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Col. L. F. Ross. Notation on back that map had been shown to Carl Sandburg. Official Records, Series...
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 The gun was originally made as a flint lock.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.
Letter between two brothers of the Decker family commenting on contact with rebel pickets. The stationery features an image of George Washington along with the phrase "let us cherish his memory and emulate his example." See also the John G. Decker...
Letter written by W. H. Lipscomb to his father on beautiful Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, LA) letterhead. Written during the Vicksburg campaign, Lipscomb describes conditions in the Confederate ranks and a recent fight between forces of...
Letter to Mr. J. H. Griffith from unknown writer who was located at a camp between Williamston and Georgetown, Kentucky. Letter discusses marching through Kentucy from Cumberland's Gap and seeing dead Union soldiers in Richmond. Also comments on...
Letter to J. H. Griffith from C. A. Carter in Cobb County at Camp McDonald. The letter discusses camp life, a fight between soldiers, the condition of Cobb County, disreputable women, and what the soldiers do during their leisure time at camp.
Letter between unknown individuals discussing the Civil War. The letter also talks about the homefront, the coming end of the war, and women marrying in house. See Mary L. Pearre Diary & Photographs, TSLA Microfilm # 1957.
Inventories of equipment lost or destroyed under command of Capt. Robert Cochran, Co. E., 9th Tennessee Cavalry around Bulls Gap, Tenn., May 30-November 16, 1864. "List of stores lost in Stampede between Bull's Gap and Strawberry Plains, Tenn.,...
$500 Confederate bond: "Two years after the Ratification of a Treaty between the Confederate States & United States the C.S.A. will pay to the bearer on demand $500." Handed down in the family from Sherman Blair.
Multiple documents pertaining to the struggle between Bennett H. Young and Felix H. Robertson for control of the UCV Texas chapter and the Gettysburg and Jacksonville reunions.
Two $5 Confederate notes with image of Jefferson Davis in lower left corner. Promises to pay bearer five dollars "two years after ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States."
Crowell served in Co. H, 22nd Penn. Cav. Regt. and Co. H, 3rd Regt., Penn. Prov. Cav. He received a monthly pension between $24 to $30 from 1914 to 1919.
Moore pictured at dedication of Confederate monument on courthouse square in Shelbyville, Tenn. The monument reads, in part, "In memory of the 'Shelbyville Rebels' Co. F. 41st Tenn. Reg't. C.S.A. and all soldiers from Bedford County who fought for...
Two $100 CSA notes from Richmond, Va. and one $5 State of Ga. note from The City Bank of Augusta, GA. The $100 bills are authorized by the Confederate States of America and promise to pay the bearer "six months after the ratification of a treaty of...
Photograph of John Calvin Cook, likely a Confederate cavalryman, holding a Sharp's carbine and cavalry saber. Cook was from Crockett County, Tenn., and is buried between Trenton and Alamo.
Hansford James, son of John James and Nancy Smyth, born November 3, 1822, died March 23, 1883. Married Mary Melvina Bell, January 12, 1854. Hansford James served in the War Between the States under General Robert E. Lee's command. Captured at the...
