Black and white etching that pictures a wounded soldier being tended to. Etched by Hamilton, N.A., and painted by Thomas Hoverden, N.A. Copyright, Fishel Adler of Schwartz, N.Y., 1889.
Merriman was from Hawkins County, Tennessee, and served in Co. B., 60th Tennessee Volunteers. He was captured at Big Black River, Mississippi, and held at Point Lookout, Maryland, as a prisoner of war. Later he enlisted in the Union army to fight...
Cabinet card of Harlan family. The reverse reads: "Cornlis Neal Harlan and Aunt Nan McClellan Harlan, Mother and Father to Maggie B. Harlan, Rogersville, Tenn. Nancy Jane McClellan Harlan born 5/27/1845, died 12/16/1917. Maggie Bell Harlan (baby)...
Massengill was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. No service record found for this individual in this unit. A service record exists for a Lt. Joseph F. Massengill in Co. B, 4th (Murray's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA, parts of which were absorbed into...
Bolton was from the Kingsport, Tennessee, area and served in the Co. E, 61st Tennessee Regiment, C.S.A. The donor also provided Bolton's narrative report and memoirs.
Caltrop or calthrop. Large numbers of them would be scattered on a road or trail to slow down pursuit by cavalry. When a horse stepped on one, it would bruise or puncture the sole of the hoof and make the horse go instantly lame.
Cover of scrapbook created by Charles N. Barstow. The front page reads, "All, Look! And Remember!" This large scrapbook contains images of the Civil War and 19th century America clipped from Leslie's and other mass-distributed 19th century papers....
Stone Mountain .5 dollar coin. Jacob T. Helms's coin from a reunion of Confederate veterans. He was in Company A, 24th Virginia Infantry, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps.
This commission certificate was issued to Benjamin Haught by the Virginia governor. Haught was assigned as Captain of the volunteer company attached to the 123rd Regiment of the 23rd Brigade and the 3rd Division of Virginia Militia. Item is a part...
Letter from Robert Rutledge to G. R. Rutledge describing the state of his current encampment near his Uncle Sam and Aunt Elzira's property. He explains that due to pillaging by the army the local population now despises the Confederate army almost...
This blacksmith-made Bowie knife belonged to Sgt. George Boyd Smith of Bristol, Tenn. Smith served in Co. E, 61st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. He was captured at Vicksburg, Miss.
