Military headquarters; Log cabins; Military officers; Military uniforms
Union General Joseph Hooker with generals and staff. Hooker appears as the central figure (Number 3); Number 2 is General Daniel Butterfield; Number 1 is General John W. Geary; and Number 4 is General William G. Le Duc. A Capt. Hall and Capt....
Two letters of correspondence between Mrs. John Trotwood Moore and her cousin, Susie Gentry. The first item of correspondence is from Susie Gentry to Mary Daniel Moore, written from Franklin, Tennessee, on May 28, 1934. In her correspondence,...
Tintype of Sgt. Rufus Daniel Lawson. He was from Bedford County, Tenn., or Vermont, but he was raised in Bedford County. He died of smallpox in Nashville at the end of the war on March 31, 1865. A pension record from October 1865, was filed by his...
Reproduction full-length portrait of James Hoots Call wearing double-breasted frock coat and campaign hat. Because of an arm wound sustained at Shiloh, he was discharged from service in June 1862 at age 35. Family lore states that Call carried a...
Red, white, and blue "Turkey Tracks - Orange Peel" variation quilt. The quilt has trapunto work in the white areas. It was found in a house built by Daniel Cleage.
Red and white Whig's Defeat quilt. The quilt was found in a house built by Daniel Cleage. A label on the back of the quilt reads "Mrs. C. A. Beard, Athens, Tennessee." A single letter E is stitched on the quilt top in black thread. C. A....
Pink and white "Star Irish Chain Quilt." The pink "chain" blocks have been pieced in a star design. Trapunto-worked pineapples can be seen in the white space on the quilt. The quilt was found in a house built by Daniel Cleage.
Oval-framed portrait of Daniel Fenten Cocke. He was married to Margaret Robertson. Cocke was a supply officer for General Robert E. Lee and a colonel until the end of the war, at which point he was made a general. The Cockes were from Sequatchie...
Letter from Pvt. Samuel Daniel Bayless, Co. C, 60th Tenn. Mtd. Inf. (Crawford's Regt.), CSA, to his wife Arrena from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bayless longs for home and writes, "will come home as sone as I can git mother I want you and July to have...
Letter from Private Daniel Richard Phelps to his mother in Maryville. Letter describes travelling from Nashville, chasing General John Bell Hood's army and capturing prisoners and artillery.
