Wooden spoon hand carved by John Marshall Akin, Co. B, 53rd Ga. Inf. Regt., Simms' Brigade, McClaw's Division, Longstreet's Corps. Akin, a resident of Barnesville, Ga, served one year in the army. He then served three years as a hospital nurse...
Abram Myers wrote this letter to his wife, Martha Lytle Talbert, in Shelbyville, Tenn. It bears the stamp of Cumberland Iron Works near Erin, Tenn., where he was visiting the Stacker family.