Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
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Front and side views of the white school at Walnut Grove in Sumner County. Though the building is of simple clapboard construction, fretwork decorates the front porch roof.
This 3-page typed list of soldiers in "Company E, Forest's Cavalry" is on stationery from the Farmers Bank of Beech Grove, Tennessee. The men from Coffee, Bedford, and Rutherford counties served in Co. E, 4th (Starnes') Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA.
Lead crystal bottles that were buried when the Federal forces arrived near Early Grove, Mississippi, located on the Tennessee - Mississippi border below Moscow, Tennessee.
Sample pages from Dr. Gannaway's medical ledger include accounts from the pre-Civil War era. They show the types of service and fees for B. G. Moore, a farmer, and A. Jacobs, a local store owner.
Dr. John Gannaway served as private in Co. A, 44th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. The Union quartermaster in Murfreesboro gave the claims to his brother, R. B. Gannaway, who remained loyal to the Union, for forage at the family homestead in Rutherford...
Post-Civil War photograph taken at Darnell Studio in Dyersburg, Tenn. Of James Monroe Doss, Co. I, 33rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. One of four Doss brothers from Giles County, Tenn. to serve in the Confederate army, James M. Doss is buried at Poplar...
Charles Perkins seated, his arm propped on a table next to two books. Perkins lived on Del Rio Pike in Franklin, Tennessee, in Poplar Grove and was the home of Nicholas Tate Perkins.
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View of State Street in Bristol, Tennessee. Shows multi-story buildings, automobiles, and pedestrians. The Tennessee-Virginia state line runs down the center of the street. Card no. B-30.
