Sworn affidavit, Washington County, Tenn., from Nancy Tinker regarding supplies she furnished during the war to Col. George W. Kirk of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry. Probably filed in connection with a U.S. Court of Claims application. See also...
Reprint of a Federal Statute (Chapter XLVII) from the published Acts of Congress, entitled An Act for the admission of the State of Tennessee into the Union. Approved June 1, 1796.
Grave of Andrew Jackson, Sr., in the old Waxhaw Cemetery, Lancaster County, South Carolina. The inscription of the monument reads: "Here lies buried Andrew Jackson Sr., Father of the President of the United States. Born in Ireland; Died February...
Photomontage picturing President Andrew Johnson, "Seventeenth President of the United States," his tailor shop in Greeneville, Tennessee, and his tailor's "goose and shears."
Presumed birthplace of President Andrew Johnson in Raleigh, North Carolina. Johnson is said to have been born in this house on December 29, 1809, at its original location on Fayetteville Street. In 1909, the Colonial Dames of America purchased...
Two small blackened brass buttons marked with a Texas state seal (Lone Star). TEXAS is written in raised letters around the five-pointed star. Since this object was manufactured in the North, it most likely predates the Civil War. Scoville...
Capitol structure of the "State of Franklin," an attempted community of settlers from Virginia and North Carolina who hoped to settle in the area which became East Tennessee.
Governor John Sevier's address to the Tennessee General Assembly as transcribed by Daniel Smith. Sevier debriefs members about the outcome of Tennessee's appeal for admission. At this time, he also summons the members to attend the first session...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Group of unidentified individuals scattering straw on a hillside. Written in ink on the back of the photograph, it says: "Scattering straw on hillside to improve land. Retards wash."
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
Ten dollar Confederate note issued December 2, 1862 from Richmond, Virginia. In the center of the note is an image of the Columbia, South Carolina state house. An image of R.M.T. Hunter, a member of the Confederate cabinet, is located in the bottom...
Donor indicated that Paschall was in Co. K, 46th Tennessee Infantry. He fought at the Battle of Franklin with his brother. He survived the war and married Elizabeth Ellen Martin. However, the soldiers and sailors database indicates that Paschall...
Crayon print of Nancy Taylor Kinzer by John L. White Photography. Nancy was reportedly educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She married John Wesley Kinzer. Her brother, John Taylor, served in the Confederate Army at Shiloh....
