Informs recipient (likely the father) of the death of William H. Merryman (Merriman) who died on March 5, 1865. The letter discusses the poor conditions at Fort Rice in the Dakota Territory. He also writes that they are frequently fighting Indians....
Cabinet card of Harlan family. The reverse reads: "Cornlis Neal Harlan and Aunt Nan McClellan Harlan, Mother and Father to Maggie B. Harlan, Rogersville, Tenn. Nancy Jane McClellan Harlan born 5/27/1845, died 12/16/1917. Maggie Bell Harlan (baby)...
Pencil sketch of William E. Maury. Maury was a member of Company C, 49th Tennessee Infantry, and was killed at the Battle of Franklin. His diary is in the Carter House Museum. Originally from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Maury had brothers who fought...
Born November 23, 1839, and died March 2, 1902, James Castor Fuqua lived his entire life in Macon County, Tennessee. He was in the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment and fought at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. He was wounded twice at the Battle...
Lorenzo "Jack" Sanders of Cross Plains kept this diary. He was in Company K, 30th Infantry, Tennessee Volunteers, and was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson. The date span appears to be 1863-1864. Author died on May 27, 1925.
Broken ambrotype of Captain Robert E. Mayes, who was born in Robertson County in 1823, and died in 1862. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment of the Tennessee State Militia on March 22, 1847. He later enlisted in the Confederate...
Black and white profile photograph of Joseph Baldwin Taft, Lt. Col., 143 New York. Born August 9, 1838. Died on November 25, 1863 at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Battle of Chattanooga. Buried at Chattanooga's National Cemetery. Photogropher was...
Benjamin Eaves, 43rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry, (5th East Tennessee Volunteers). Fought in Battle of Murfreesboro, Big Black River, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. He died in 1913 and his wife, Mahala, died in 1892.
Photocopied photograph of William Raleigh Watkins, 5th Tennessee Mounted Infantry, who fought at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 24, 1863. He was born on July 1, 1832, and died on February 22, 1891.
Born 1837 in McMinn County, Tennessee, died 1867 in McMinn County. He was in the 43rd Infantry, East Tennessee Volunteers, Gillespie's Regiment. It was organized December 14, 1861, and mustered out May 9, 1865.
Letter from Mrs. James G. Moss who was writing to J. R. Moss Jr. concerning the death of her husabnd, James G. Moss, who died at a Confederate Home in Ardmore, Oklahoma.
A sergeant in Co. H, 61st Tennessee Mountain Infantry, CSA. Born January 11, 1836. Died October 15, 1864. In the letter Bartlett writes of missing his wife and children and the need for stamps so that they can write to one another.
Benjamin Ledbetter in a uniform holding a gun. Ledbetter was in Co. H, 25th Tennessee Infantry, from Overton County. He was wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro on December 31, 1862. He died on January 1, 1863. Burial place is unknown.
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...
Tintype of William Henry Palmer as a lieutenant in the 68th Ohio Vol. Reg. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio...
Ruby ambrotype of William Henry Palmer. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio Vol. Reg. He saw action in the...
William Henry Palmer with his Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) medallion. Palmer was born November 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th...
Ambrotype of William Henry Palmer as a sergeant in the 68th Ohio Vol. Reg. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio...
