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...
Parole record issued May 10, 1865 at Gainesville, Alabama. Signed by Brig. Gen. Dennis for Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Camby, USA. Issued to W. S. Fisher of Co. C, 10th & 11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment CSA, residing in Marshall County, Tennessee.
Letter from Maj. Gen. Breckinridge (through his adjutant Lt. Col. John A. Buckner) to Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in LaVergne requesting that a cavalry unit under Capt. Atkinson report to Columbia.
Hotel tap bell. This bell is reported to be the same style bell as the bell used at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, during the Civil War. The Galt House was a meeting place for Federal generals during the Civil War. Brig. Gen. Jefferson...
This photograph of Eva Jackson shows her holding a doll. She later married William von Albade Deaderick, who became a judge in Jonesborough, Tenn. She was the daughter of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene Jackson, CSA. This photograph was included in a...
Photograph of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene Jackson, the only Confederate general from Washington County, Tenn. As military commander of Greeneville, Tenn., he saved Andrew Johnson's home. In 1863, he fought at the Battle of Limestone Station, Tenn....
Capt. Eugene Jackson, Co. G, 29th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, of Jonesborough, Tenn. was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, served under General Stonewall Jackson, and was killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was the son of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene...
Parole and permission to return home for Pvt. J. L. Gee, Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA. Gee resided in Tipton County, Tenn. The parole is signed by E. S. Dennis, Brig. Gen. Vols. Com. for US.
General Orders No. 48, charging and convicting Lewis S. Hodges, a citizen of Pulaski, Tenn., of disloyalty and harboring guerillas. Hodges was sentenced a fine of $1500 dollars and ordered imprisoned "until said fine is paid." The orders are signed...
Pvt. G. W. James, Co. H, 12th Tenn. Inf. (later Co. F, 47th Tenn. Inf.) writes to his brother in Gibson County from a camp near Sweetwater, Tenn. He tells of being where the "terrible thunder of cannons & deafening roar of musketry played their...
Daguerreotype of Brig. Gen. Edward P. Fyffe. Fyffe, a physician, enlisted as a Colonel, 26th Ohio Vol. Inf. Regt. on June 10, 1861, promoted to Brevet Brigadier Gen. on March 13, 1865. He was at Stones River. He was from Urbana (Champaign County),...
Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's order to burn whiskey distilleries if owners persist in their liquor-making. Landowner's name is intentionly obscured, making some of the document illegible.
Letter to Brig. General Hoffman, Commissary General of Prisoners in Washington, DC requesting on behalf of "friends and parents" of prisoners (probably Wilson County men) their return to Tennessee. Prisoners are incarcerated at Point Lookout, DE,...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard both serving food and standing in line to receive a meal inside the Clarksville Armory. A small boy is pictured at the front of the line. This barbecue followed the September 10, 1944 military...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Five uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are seated as they eat their barbecue in the Clarksville Armory. The meal was served following the military program staged at the facility by the 2nd Regiment of the Tennessee State Guard on...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are in the foreground of this image. They and the civilian spectators pictured behind them are standing outside the Clarksville Armory watching the various spectacles and demonstrations that are;...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Military officers; Militias; Grenades; Firearms; Rifles; Bayonets; Gas warfare; Tear gas; Chemicals
Outside the Clarksville Armory a crowd is pictured gathered around Tennessee State Guard soldiers who are giving a talk on weaponry. Displayed on a blanket on the ground in front of them are a variety of rifles and gas canisters. One Guard member...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Historic buildings; Historic sites; Flags; Flagpoles; Military standards; Hotels
Certificate issued to Ernest N. Haston, a long-serving Tennessee Secretary of State, recognizing financial support and making him a member of the Association committed to restoring the Fort Donelson House. An image at the top of the certificate...