Portrait photographs; Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms
Half-length portrait of Sergeant James Otey Gloster, C.S.A., in uniform. A note on the back of the photograph states that it was a gift of Dr. Digby Seymour of LaGrange, Illinois.
Small, orange paper "ticket" advertising Republican candidates in the campaign of 1868: Ulysses S. Grant for president, presidential electors (including Dewitt Clinton Senter), and Samuel M. Arnell for Congress. Also listed are electors for...
Enlisted in Company E, 18th Infantry, May 29, 1861, at Camp Cheatham. He was captured at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, and sent to Camp Butler prisoner of war camp in Illinois. He was parolled and was killed at New Hope Church on May 16, 1864....
The 1st Ill. Cav. Regt., according to the poster, "bushwhacked and jayhawked" across southeast Missouri. Poster shows regiment's encampment at Memphis, Tenn. One of unit's corporals was G. W. Garber, an alias of David P. Sherfy of Jonesborough,...
A pictorial representation in lithographic form of Nashivlle during the Civil War, with the camp of the Illinois 16th Volunteer Regiment at Edgefield in the foreground. The Cumberland River is seen in the background with gunboats and riverboats...
A pictorial representation in lithographic form of Nashivlle during the Civil War, with the camp of the Illinois 16th Volunteer Regiment at Edgefield in the foreground. The Cumberland River is seen in the background with gunboats and riverboats...
Map of the Southeastern United States featuring the states of Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. Chronicles the marches of General...
Military commission for 2nd Lt. Archibald B. McLean (misspelled as McLane), Co. C, 57th Regt., Ill. Vols., USA. Commissioned by Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois. The commission began on June 7, 1862, and is registered in book A,...
Sharp and Smith manufacturer, Chicago, Illinois. Acquired from a hospital in Philadelphia. Instruments include tourniquet, saws, and scalpels in pristine condition.
Letter from John Felts who was captured at Fort Donelson and was imprisoned at Camp Butler, Illinois. He wrote to W. H. Felts of Springfield, Tennessee, describing his illness and expressing a desire to leave the camp soon.
Carte-de-visite of John Ward Gates. He was a newspaper man from Jackson, Tennessee. Gates was a member of Henderson's Scouts in Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry. He was captured near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1864 and sent to Alton,...
Deliveries from Steamer Pioneer and Steamer Colossus from H. Shoals, Tennessee, are recorded on the same printed form. Their cargo is mostly iron and brass.
One-page printed form noting packages and contents, such as coils of rope, cases of saws, barrels of linseed oil, et cetera. Invoice of stores delivered by S. H. Stevens to W. A. Wainwright, via Steamer Mercury, from Smithland, Kentucky, to...
Black and white photograph of the Illinois Building, located at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville, Tennessee. In the foreground is a lake.
Hand-drawn map of West Tennessee executed by B. J. Radford, cartographer with 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 18th (?) Illinois Volunteers, commanded by Col. L. F. Ross. Notation on back that map had been shown to Carl Sandburg. Official Records, Series...
