Scrapbook kept by B.R. Strong about the visit of Judge John H. Regan, Postmaster General of the Confederacy, to Sevier County, Tennessee. Photographs and newspaper clippings included.
Cast button, brass with porcelain inlay of Miss Venus and the crescent moon. Stars are stamped on the brass. Unearthed near Hickman Creek. Also included is a medal dug up at Plantation Inn.
Commanders book that belonged to Evin Knudson. The book contains cartes de visite of officers in his chain of command in the Union Army. Cartes de visite of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Vice President Andrew Johnson...
Photograph of four members of the Decker family. John G. Decker, first from left, and Phillip G. Decker, second from right, are twins. Phillip G. Decker died during the war. John G. Decker was a member of Co. K, 32nd Indiana Vol., USA. Numerous...
Medal given to John G. Decker, Co. K, 32nd Ind. Vol. Inf., USA. Numerous letters written by Decker are included in the collection. See also the John G. Decker Papers, Mf. 1964
Grand Army of the Republic medal given to John G. Decker, who served in Co. K, 32nd Ind. Vol. Inf., USA, from 1861 to 1866. Numerous letters written by Decker are included in the collection. See also the John G. Decker Papers, Mf. 1964.
Confederate veterans' reunion at New Friendship Church in Henderson County (now Chester County), Tennessee. The children of Allen Kincaid Jones and young people with musical instruments are included in the image.
Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) items in wooden frame. The most striking is a veteran's medal made with a silk U.S. flag suspended from a spread-eagle pin. A five-pointed star hangs from the flag. Also included are two GAR buttons, a GAR cap...
This photograph of Eva Jackson shows her holding a doll. She later married William von Albade Deaderick, who became a judge in Jonesborough, Tenn. She was the daughter of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene Jackson, CSA. This photograph was included in a...
Photograph of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene Jackson, the only Confederate general from Washington County, Tenn. As military commander of Greeneville, Tenn., he saved Andrew Johnson's home. In 1863, he fought at the Battle of Limestone Station, Tenn....
Capt. Eugene Jackson, Co. G, 29th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, of Jonesborough, Tenn. was a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, served under General Stonewall Jackson, and was killed at Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was the son of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene...
Portrait of William Preston Graves (Febraury 2, 1841 - January 20, 1889) seated in uniform. Graves was a captain in the U.S. Army. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas. He married Hetty Scott of...
A small leather-bound Bible picked up on a Georgia battlefield. Within the Bible is a handwritten letter from a mother to her son. Birth and marriage dates are included for William Wiley Dunn and Mary H. E. Vineyard and their children Wiliam,...
