Copy print of Confederate veteran, Capt. Robert Laird Evans, Co. I, 53rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, seated with his wife, Delilah Angus Evans, three unidentified women, and one child. Evans was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and sent to Johnson's...
Correspondence; Children; Families; Civil Wars; War
Correspondence from John G. Latta to his brother, Samuel R. Latta. The four-page letter mentions John G. Latta's intention to move home to Tennessee. It also mentions that Southern sympathizers are being targeted in New England.
Sheet music covers; Caricatures; African Americans; Soldiers; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Cover depicts caricatures of five African-American soldiers, three with bayonets, one playing a drum, and one holding a sign reading "Raw Recruits, Capt. Dan Bryant." They appear hapless and comically inept. They are lined up in front of tents in...
Discharge certificate for Pvt. James H. Hoss, Capt. Jenkins' Co. C, 13th Tenn. Cav. Regt. Hoss enlisted on January 14, 1864, and was discharged on September 5, 1865. He was 18 years old at the time of his discharge.
Discharge of service for Capt. Zina B. Chatfield, 6th Miss. Regt., Vols. of African Descent. Issued at Headquarters, Dept. of the Tennessee, Vicksburg, Miss., Oct. 5, 1863. Zina Bradley Chatfield (1828-1923)
Discharge record of James R. Hord of Co. F., 2nd US Cavalry (Blount County). Hord served in Capt. James Walker's Company. He was from Friendsville, Tennessee.
Double-sided, handwritten, one-page document lists those prisoners being held by Federal authorities. Those incarcerated include citizens, soldiers who have committed disciplinary infractions, and soldiers being held for possible court-martial.
Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband Samuel details news of their children and other family members. References are made to a scarcity of food and civilian transportation and rumors of battle. Mary proclaims her hope that her...
Four-page letter from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samuel, conveys her anxiety at not hearing from him and her disappointment both in his defeat for promotion to Lt. Colonel and in his inability to come home for Christmas. She also relates...
Full-plate tintype, approximately 5" x 7", hand-colored head and shoulders portrait of Samantha Chatfield, wife of Capt. Zina B. Chatfield. Photograph probably taken after the war.
General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
Prisons; Prisoners of war; Prison hospitals; Prison guards; Sutlers; Military medicine
Hand-drawn color map of the military prison at Johnson's Island in the bay of Sandusky, Ohio, where captured Confederate officers were held. Prison buildings and grounds are labeled. Drawn by Capt. J. T. Hogane, Topographical Engineer, C.S.A.,...
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.,...
J. W. Hooker was in the 177th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This note was written from HQ 177, O.V.I., by Lt. Col. W. H. Zimmeron to Capt. I. N. Rogers. The note excuses him from all duties "for two towers" for cleanliness.
John Sanford Barker was born July 8, 1827, in Monroe County, Tennessee, the son of Burrell and Elizabeth Barker. He was a veteran of the Union Army, serving from September 1864 through June 1865 under Capt. Charles A. Pickens in Co. A, 5th Regt....
Josiah Stewart House, Co. H, 47th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, signed this Parole of Honor in Memphis after the surrender. He pledges, "I will not take up arms again" against the U.S. Document issued by the Office of the Provost Marshal, District West...
