This button was found in a Confederate camp in Corinth, Mississippi, which was used after the Battle of Shiloh. Button is marked "Andrew Jackson, March 1829." Found in a fire pit.
This letter by Eliza Jane McReynolds of Blount County, Tennessee, to her brother Capt. Aaron McReynolds, USA, provides news of family and crops from home. Aaron Gamble McReynolds enlisted in Co. H, 2nd Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. On June 4, 1864, he was...