General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
Tintype of James William Sarver (1841-1862), 2nd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Sarver is wearing an Army of Tennessee, CSA, uniform and a badge of secession. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.
Letter to "Dear, Dear Wife" (J. E. Harrison) written by a soldier from Camp Jackson, 15 miles from Gallatin. The writer is enjoying good health, but wants to see his wife very much. "[I]t want be long till I will come to hold you to my bosem, the...
Lieutenant Thomas Branson Cooke, C. S. A., taken in Nashville at age 16. He was killed two years later at the Battle of Port Hudson. His parents lived on Gallatin Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.
Pass from the Provost Marshal's Office at Gallatin, Tennessee, to permit W. T. Robinson to travel within Federal lines until further orders. The pass was issued by order of Brigadier General E. A. Paine, and signed by Major J. J. Searitt, Provost...
Scrap of a military record denoting the first names of negro enlistments in Colored Infantry Regiments. Also mentioned are some officers with the units. The notation of Gallatin and the date of 1863 most probably is associated with the formation...
One cent coin found at Camp Trousdale in Sumner County, Tennessee. Confederate soldiers used Camp Trousdale for training until Federal troops invaded the area.
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...
Harris served as 1st Lt., Co. A, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the Newbern Blues, under Col. Tyree Bell of Dyer County. He also served as Adjutant for Col. Robert Russell. Information on the back of the photograph identifies this as a...
Polly Shute, seated. Shute was the family help at Beechland in Cage's Bend near Gallatin, Tennessee. She was the family servant for the Andersons beginning in 1874.
Polly Shute standing outside in front of her home. Shute was the family help at Beechland in Cage's Bend near Gallatin, Tennessee. She was the family servant for the Andersons beginning in 1874.
