Model 1860 U.S. staff and field officer's sword manufactured by Springfield Armory and Southern Cross belonging to William Fairchild Dennis Jr. (October 17, 1845 - June 9, 1927). Dennis served with the Raymond Minute Men of Hinds County,...
Broadsides; Death & burial; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Graves; Mothers
Nashville Banner print giving details of the death and burial of Andrew Jackson's mother. The broadside refutes the rumor that Mrs. Jackson was buried on the roadside.
Non-military bag that could have been used during the Civil War and hooked onto a horse's saddle. The item was carried by Jackson Green from Luther, Hancock County, Tennessee. He was in Co. B, 1st Regt., Tenn. Vol. Cav., USA. Some of the bag is...
Officers of the three brigades of the Tennessee State Guard during World War II. Three of the photographs are group photographs of the officers of the First, Second, and Third Brigades with the officers unnamed. This photograph; is a shot of the...
Pamphlet describing the proceedings of a mass meeting of the 7th Tenn. Cav., Rucker's Brigade, Jackson's Division, CSA. The resolutions expressed by this meeting of officers and enlisted men, despite the short time remaining for hostilities, are...
Pamphlet from the Shiloh Burial Association announcing the formation of a group soliciting donations to purchase 200 acres of the ground at Shiloh for the purpose of building memorials and planting an Osage orange hedge.; The pamphlet features a...
Panorama photograph of Confederate veterans and their families taken at a reunion at the Murfreesboro, Tenn., fairgrounds. Robert Cannon Garrett, former private with Jackson's Cav. Co., is seated to the right of the middle, a blue arrow above his...
Patent issued to Stephen Rust for "Wash Board for Washing Clothes" signed by Andrew Jackson and R.B.Taney. Taney was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1836 until his death in 1864. He is principally remembered for his part in the 1857...
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....
Photograph of James Coble's grave marker accompanied by the transcript of an article detailing Coble's death. He was a membe of the 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA. Coble was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in December...
Photograph of John Calvin Cook, likely a Confederate cavalryman, holding a Sharp's carbine and cavalry saber. Cook was from Crockett County, Tenn., and is buried between Trenton and Alamo.
Photograph of Pvt. William Joshua Thomas Sr., Hale's (later Jackson's) Battery, Va. Lt. Arty., CSA, in civilian clothing. Thomas enlisted April 18, 1863, at Dublin. He was captured August 7, 1864, at Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia) and...
Photograph of William Henry Palmer. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio Vol. Reg. He saw action in the summer of...
