Written on the back of John Hare Bond's checks, this story recounts Fielding Hurst's harassment of West Tennessee planter Uncle Lewis "Luke" Bond. Hurst, a rare Unionist in the region, raised units of scouts and cavalry. They patrolled Federal...
White stoneware mug (maker's mark is unreadable). Family legend states that the mug is the surviving piece belonging to Louona Christian Pollack. Pollack was forced to prepare breakfast for Federal troops. The troops smashed the dishes after the...
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. A guard with bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.
Two documents detailing the parole and oath of allegiance taken by Thomas P. Reed. The document gives a physical description of Reed and is signed by Provost Marshal A. G. Brady.
Trust deed for two town lots in Athens, Tennessee, on which the bank is currently located. It was executed July 3, 1865. Document constitutes mortgage on lots being conveyed to David Cleage. Affixed is $3.00 Federal Internal Revenue stamp.
Three-quarter length portrait of a soldier wearing a dress uniform with frog-style closures and a baldric and sword belt. A pair of gloves is in his right hand and his left rests on the hilt of a sword.
Centennial celebrations; Public speaking; Exhibitions; Souvenirs
Three-page souvenir transcript of an address by J.W. Thomas, President of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, delivered at the opening of the exposition on May 1, 1897. Thomas proclaimed that the event was to celebrate the state's past and...
This rifle was manufactured for the Confederate Army at the Pulaski Armory by W. N. Webb, N. B. Zuccarello and James McLean. While the barrel was new, some of the parts were repurposed from other weapons. "Pulaski C. S. A. 61" is engraved on the...
This pro-Confederate paper, like many such papers on the run from Federal advance during the war, was published in at least five Southern cities during the Civil War. This issue, printed a month before Appomattox, comes from Montgomery, Ala. x.
This pro-Confederate paper, like many such papers on the run from Federal advance during the war, was published in at least five Southern cities during the Civil War. This issue comes from Atlanta, Ga.
This pro-Confederate newspaper, originally printed in Memphis, was published in Jackson, Miss., after being run out of Grenada, Miss., by Federal forces. It eventually moved on to Meridian, Miss., and Montgomery, Ala.
This pro-Confederate newspaper was published in Memphis until the city's fall to Federal forces in June 1862. Casualties from the Battle of Belmont, Ky., are reported in this issue.
This order of protection for Miss Mary Taylor of Sumner County was issued by General E. A. Paint at the Federal Headquarters at Gallatin. It permits her to travel in the daytime to and from all places within the Federal lines in the prosecution of...
This one-page printed provision return form with handwritten entries was submitted by Captain McDearmon of the 17th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, C. S. A., and represents three days of rations drawn by fifty-one men stationed at Camp Hope near...
This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
This letter from Sgt. David Mullins, Co. K, 41st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his wife Genetia describes a successful Confederate battery action against Federal gunships at Port Hudson, using "hot balls" and setting enemy ships on fire.
This engraving features African Americans being guided onto a troop train headed for Murfreesboro where their wish to join the Federal Army will be granted. This illustration appeared in Frank Leslie's post-war volume "The Soldier in Our Civil War"...
