"The Fugitive: A Magazine of Poetry from the South," Published in Nashville, Tenn., was published from April 1922 to December 1925. Contributors to this issue: Witter Bynner, Donald Davidson, William Frierson, Robert Graves, Sidney M. Hirsch,...
A young man in a suit holding 2 pistols. Huddleston served in Co. C, 13th (Dibrell's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, which was organized on August 2, 1862, in Cookeville. He was 19 years old. David was born on December 22, 1842, and he died on October...
Army shoe of David M. Dotson, Co. K, 37th Tennessee Regiment, CSA, who lost his foot in the Battle of Franklin. The shoe was specifically designed to accommodate him.
Article appearing under the title of "Agricultural Society in Middle Tennessee" in the May 1, 1838, issue of the "Tennessee Farmer" conveys the importance of not only agricultural organization on the county level, but on the state level as well.
Carte de visite of David Preston Sherfy. Sherfy, using the alias George W. Garber, enlisted in Co. H, 1st Ill. Cav. Regt. at Cairo, Ill., on July 17, 1861. He was promoted to full corporal and mustered out on July 5, 1862. He enlisted in Co. C,...
Carte de visite of Mary C. Miller, first wife of David Preston Sherfy (alias George W. Garber). Miller died in 1888 at the age of 40 after suffering from an epileptic seizure and drowning in Knob Creek.
Cased quarter-plate ambrotype of five unidentified women. Three are seated and two are standing. The ambrotype was found by David Preston Sherfy on an unnamed street in Memphis during the Civil War.
Certificate of discharge for Cpl. William Waldrup, Co. F (David Dickinson's), 6th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. Waldrup, a native of Hardin County, enrolled on September 21, 1862. He was discharged from service on July 26, 1865 at Pulaski, Tenn., by...
Certificate of discharge from the Army of Tennessee for David A. Hickerson, a private in Captain James H. Lewis's Company C, 2nd Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry. At the time of discharge, he was 26 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, fair complexion, gray...
Circular tin containing brass pistol caps that belonged to David Preston Sherfy. Sherfy, using the alias George W. Garber, enlisted in Co. H, 1st Ill. Cav. Regt. at Cairo, Ill. on July 17, 1861. He was promoted to full corporal and mustered out on...
Co. E, 11th Ill. Cav. Regt. pin that belonged to David Preston Sherfy (alias George W. Garber). The pin is composed of crossed carbines with "11" above the rifles and "E" below.
Federal direct tax receipt paid by David Purvines to the Federal government as tax levied on "insurrectionary districts within the U.S. for other purposes approved June 7, 1862."
Four-page form in which William Mitchell, agent of David Bales, files claim for ten bushels of corn taken by the 9th Michigan Regiment in October 1865 for use by the Federal Army. The initial filing occurred April 22, 1868. Also contained in the...
From Mrs. Angus William McDonald to the wife of Union General David Stroffer, seeking the release of her husband from prison. Stroffer and Angus McDonald were friends in Winchester.
Hand-colored carte de visite of African American Sgt. Dick Johnson, 3rd US Colored Cavalry (USCC), detailed to David Preston Sherfy. On February 18, 1865, at Hamburg, Ark., Sherfy fell from his horse and severely injured his leg. Sgt. Johnson cared...
