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,...
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....
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...
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.
