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.
Civil War era gun made before the war. The gun was originally made as a flint lock. The U. S. Army (between 1842 and the 1850s) took on a conversion project to convert flint locks to percussion guns.
Enfield rifle marked with Tower of London Arsenal insignia and shortened to carbine length. This gun was probably picked up on the battlefield and shortened to carbine length for use by the Confederate Army.
Spencer carbine repeating firearm. It holds seven .52 caliber cartridges in a tubular magazine that is housed in the buttstock. It was a popular firearm for cavalrymen because they could fire several times without having to reload after each...
Remington Model 1858 .36 caliber Navy revolver. This type of gun was mostly used by Federal soldiers. It was made by E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, New York. It has a patent date of September 14, 1858, inscribed on the underside of the barrel.
.36 caliber Colt Navy revolver, serial number 103239. Inscription on the backstrap reads, "Presented to Colonel George G. Dibrell, 8th Tenn. Cav. by friends and citizens of Sparta, Tenn." The top flat of the barrel is marked, "ADDRESS COL. SAML...
A photographic reprint (in green) of Josiah James Hughes, Co. E, 61st N. C. Inf. Regt., CSA, in uniform. There is a knife and a gun tucked inside the front of his belt. Hughes was from Green County, N. C. He fought at Fort Wagner on Morris Island,...
Letter from Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his wife Nancy, written days after his capture on Island No. 10 and imprisonment at Camp Chase, Ohio. He assures his wife he is well and in "comfortable quarters." Of the...
Half-stock muzzle-loading percussion rifle from 1840-1870. Wallet stock, .30 caliber. It was a family-owned item from Hickman County. The owner of the gun was Sgt. John Wesley McDonough, Co. G, 12th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. He was married to Ecloy...
William Addison Abernathy, C. S. A., seated in uniform, gun in hand. Abernathy was killed in battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. On the back "Mammy's brother. See General Vaughn's book in my cedar chest." is written.
Newton Webb was a gun manufacturer at the Pulaski Armory. He was a carpenter by trade, and became a master armorer during the Civil War. This percussion fire rifle was Webb's personal firearm. There are no extant records of the Pulaski Armory; all...
Letter from John A. Hickerson, Company B, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, C. S. A., to his father John D. Hickerson. The letter is the first he wrote to his father after enlisting. The author describes his movements from Arkansas to Knoxville and back. The...
