The "City of Memphis" is moored at the shore while cargo is loaded on board via a boom gangplank. Several well dressed men and women seem to be waiting to board. The tall stacks are belching black smoke in preparation for moving. Individuals are...
"City of Savannah," a stern wheeler steamboat, plowing through the water belching smoke through the tall stacks. Some individuals are shown on the decks. One lifeboat is visible on one of the decks.
Engraved reproduction of Julio's "Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson." General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson each seated on horseback side by side with three officers also on horseback behind them. It is a copy of the artist's rendering...
Stone monument of a riderless horse at Chickamauga Battlefield Park near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Carving on monument reads, "First Wisconsin Cavalry, 2nd Brig. 1st Div. Cavalry Corps."; Descriptive text on the reverse side of postcard.
Seven unidentified persons (three women and four men). According to information attached to photograph one of the men is Jesse Louis Lasky and another is his son, William Raymond Lasky. The older man in double-breasted suit is probably the senior...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Angled view of the U.S. Government Building at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. The building stood close to the main entrance of the grounds near Lake Katherine. The building, with classical style architecture, had the form of a cross. The...
Centennial celebrations; Public speaking; Exhibitions; Souvenirs
Three-page souvenir transcript of an address by J.W. Thomas, President of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, delivered at the opening of the exposition on May 1, 1897. Thomas proclaimed that the event was to celebrate the state's past and...
Letter from Eli Mills to his brother, Franklin Mills, from Camp Benton in St. Louis, Missouri. The letter addresses paying his debts, prisoner exchange, and writing letters.
In this postwar letter to his brother Francis Marion James, George James writes about his medical studies. He attended two surgeries and comments about his health and the health of the city, in addition to sharing and asking for news of family and...
This page includes a letter to Hardy Mitchener dated August 14. The letter reads, "I was in Nashville months ago, called your house and then didn't write. I have been so busy - Where are you stationed now and where will you be Labor Day Week-end?...
White-bearded stout man wearing captain's hat and sitting in a chair on the Texas deck of the steamboat "City of Memphis". The Texas Deck, a long and narrow cabin for officers, was located on a raised section over the skylights of a steamboat....
Military personnel; Presidents; Presidential appointments
Military commission of Lewis T. (aka Louis Thompson) Morris, Brevet Major, U. S. Army, December 16, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee," signed by President Andrew Johnson, cosigned by Edwin M. Stanton,...
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...
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...
