Knights Templar fraternity sword. The sword includes a white lily insignia to symbolize the Knights Templar fraternity. It also includes the letters "UR" that signified uniformed ranks. The name "C. B. Baer" is engraved on the blade. The sword...
Robinson was in Kershaw's Brigade, one of the Army of Northern Virginia's most battle-tested units. See entire collection of letters in TSLA Microfilm #1969.
Map of G. F. Robinson unit's (and the Army of Northern Virginia's) march from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and back to Virginia. See TSLA Mf. 1969 for all G. F. Robinson letters.
Tintype of Andrew Joseph Bonds, Co. B, 7th Tenn. Cav., USA. He died at Grand Junction, Tennessee. The Gordon Browning Museum in McKenzie, Tennessee, has letters he wrote to his wife, Elizabeth, while he was in the war.
Misemer writes that officers are riding around the camp telling soldiers that they will be paroled and of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Richmond. He also says that he has heard that two of his comrades have come from Andersonville and are doing...
A letter from Frederick M. Williamson to Alice O. McBee. Williamson wrote from General Hospital No. 2, 3rd Division Ward in Lynchburg, Va. He describes his illness and only having a blanket and a bed of straw to rest on. He discusses wanting to...
Issued by the Memphis postmaster, M. C. Gallaway, these five-cent stamps were printed in Memphis as an interim measure until the Confederate States of America began printing stamps. They were used for letters delivered up to 500 miles outside the...
Letter to "Dear Sister" tells of Shipp's location about 200 miles from Camp Cheatham in East Tennessee. He is feeling "well and harty," and the regiment is on its way to Virginia. He advises her to direct letters to Camp Bradford and "say James...
Two small blackened brass buttons marked with a Texas state seal (Lone Star). TEXAS is written in raised letters around the five-pointed star. Since this object was manufactured in the North, it most likely predates the Civil War. Scoville...
UCV uniform of Sgt. John Cloar, Co. A, 33rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, of Union City, Tenn. On the vest is a Southern Cross of Honor bestowed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and battle flag pin. A Confederate flag handkerchief is in...
This uniform belonged to Sgt. John Cloar, Co. A, 33rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, of Union City, Tenn. It consists of pants and a sack coat, which has simple dome buttons with the letters U.C.V. The suit has a label from Coble & Claggett of Union City,...
Henry and Emma James were the younger siblings of Francis (Frank) W. James, a doctor in Rutherford, Tennessee. Aged seventeen and nine, Henry and Emma lived in Bluff Springs in Gibson County, Tennessee. Henry writes about the corn and cotton crops,...
Letter from Margaret McClarty Maxwell to her husband, Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873), defending the scarcity and brevity of her previous letters and relaying family news. They had nine children.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Shield-shaped red felt patch embroidered in gold and green thread with a tree, a surveying tool, and the letters "CCC" appearing at the top of the shield.
Two letters of correspondence between Mrs. John Trotwood Moore and her cousin, Susie Gentry. The first item of correspondence is from Susie Gentry to Mary Daniel Moore, written from Franklin, Tennessee, on May 28, 1934. In her correspondence,...
One-page form. It includes a description of the horse, which was sold in accordance with orders at public auction on April 16, 1864. The horse, No. 210, is 16 hands high, age 9, and has bay coloring.
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