Print of the Battle of Stones River depicting the Federal troops of General William Rosencrans fighting against Confederate troops under General Bragg. A Union column marches toward the action and a battery of cannon fires on Confederate troops as...
Military map of Middle Tennessee, circa 1862, from the Benjamin Franklin Cheatham Papers, showing cities and towns, roads, turnpikes and toll roads, railroads, rivers and streams, in the following counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson,...
Carved Minie balls and bullets, belt buckles, Civil War military buttons and corps badges. Collected from across Tennessee. The carved rifle bullets are particularly fine, having been carved in the shapes of death's heads, cannon, coffins, "Yank,"...
Gold-framed ambrotype of Confederate soldier Elijah Anderson (circa 1816-1862) in civilian clothes. Pinned to his left lapel is a ribbon displaying the name "Anderson."
The statue of Alvin York on the Tennessee State Capitol grounds. The statue's sculptor, Felix De Weldon, and York's widow, Gracie, are photographed viewing the statue. The Tennessee State Capitol building, a cannon, and the equestrian statue of...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows a poem written by an African American POW, Hitchcock. Mitchener uses the word "colored" to describe him. The poem is called "Fighter Pilot" and is about the role and importance of fighter...
This page in Mitchener's POW diary from World War II shows the continuation from the previous page of a poem written by an African American POW, Hitchcock. Mitchener uses the word "colored" to describe him. The poem is called "Fighter Pilot" and is...
A 4-page program providing details of the opening day of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition on May 1, 1897. Included in the program are the names of speakers as well as congratulatory telegrams from prominent politicians and businessmen.
Letter from J. Wes Broom to Miss G.A. Brigham describing the fighting around Port Hudson. It describes a night battle with Federal ships and the effectiveness of the Confederate batteries positioned in the fort. There are also comments on...
Excerpts from a small handwritten diary written by Nannie Haskins, a young girl of Clarksville, Tennessee. Provides an insight into the day to day activities of an observant young girl. Haskins was strongly in support of the Confederacy and loathed...
Panorama photograph of Confederate veterans and their families taken at a reunion at the Murfreesboro, Tenn., fairgrounds. Robert Cannon Garrett, former private with Jackson's Cav. Co., is seated to the right of the middle, a blue arrow above his...
Similar to Pennsylvania German fraktur, beautifully drawn red & brown ink doves, flag, and cannon embellish the marriage record of Robert Irick and Sarah M. Selvidge. Children's birth and death dates are also recorded. Includes "R. R. Irick,...
Proclamation issued by Governor Newton Cannon requesting 2500 volunteers from Tennessee to answer President Andrew Jackson's call for a war on the Creek Indians. It spells out the reasons for a call to arms and explains how volunteers are to be...