William B. Morgan, veteran, 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. Personal letters from Morgan may be found in "A Personal Look at the Civil War in Rhea and Meigs Counties, Tennessee," published by the Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society....
Pair of leather pommel holsters with brass tips. The holsters belonged to Gen. George Dibrell, 8th (also 13th) Tenn. Cav. Regt. The unit, referred to as the "Independent Partisan Rangers," was composed of 921 men primarily from White, Putnam, and...
This 3-page typed list of soldiers in "Company E, Forest's Cavalry" is on stationery from the Farmers Bank of Beech Grove, Tennessee. The men from Coffee, Bedford, and Rutherford counties served in Co. E, 4th (Starnes') Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA.
This information from the Bureau of Agriculture, Mines, and Statistics communicates on a county-by-county basis (though not all counties are profiled) a kind of manufacturing census for the State of Tennessee. By including the manufacturer name,...
"An Ordinance for Circumscribing the Counties of Greene and Hawkins and Laying Out Two New Counties" is the first resolution appearing in the bound collection of acts passed by the Southwest Territory. The act is written in script and is four pages...
Broadside advertising the Brownsville Colored Normal School (Brownsville, Tenn.). The text includes a list of the Board of Managers and the subjects to be taught. It is believed to have been issued during the term of Tennessee Governor William B....
Letter from Commissioner J. B. Killebrew to H. C. Collier of Charlotte, Tennessee, deals with encouraging immigration to Tennessee in the 1880s and the accompanying sale of farm land across the state. Killebrew assures Collier that immigration is...
Certificate of election for Andrew Johnson as Representative to the 21st General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, elected August 1835, jointly representing the counties of Greene and Washington. The document is signed by the two county sheriffs...
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This geological map of three Tennessee counties (Davidson, Williamson, and Maury) shows main waterways, county seats and towns, main roads, geographical identifications, and transversal sections of the land. Williamson County is outlined in red,...
This 1890 circular, put together by Land and Immigrant Agent W.M. Janes under the auspices of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company Land and Emigrant Department, focuses on iron ore lands along the L& N in Tennessee and Kentucky counties...
Maps; Rivers; Cities & towns; Streams; Surveying; Land grants
Map showing ranges, counties, streams, some roads, and county seats of the First Surveyor's District of Tennessee in the early 1800s. The Tennessee River appears at the western edge of the map. The counties of Montgomery, Robertson, Sumner,...
Color map of Tennessee as it appeared in 1822. The map shows counties, county seats, rivers, and mountains. Muscle Shoals in Alabama can also be seen, in addition to some Cherokee lands in southeast Tennessee. Lower left corner: "Drawn by F. Lucas...
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,...
Map showing the proposed route of the Memphis-Nashville-Bristol Highway to be constructed 1911-1913. The map shows all the counties of Tennessee with their county seats, as well as the major railroads through Tennessee. There are advertisements...
