Letter written by W. H. Lipscomb to his father on beautiful Centenary College of Louisiana (Jackson, LA) letterhead. Written during the Vicksburg campaign, Lipscomb describes conditions in the Confederate ranks and a recent fight between forces of...
Parole record issued May 10, 1865 at Gainesville, Alabama. Signed by Brig. Gen. Dennis for Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Camby, USA. Issued to W. S. Fisher of Co. C, 10th & 11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment CSA, residing in Marshall County, Tennessee.
Letter from Maj. Gen. Breckinridge (through his adjutant Lt. Col. John A. Buckner) to Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler in LaVergne requesting that a cavalry unit under Capt. Atkinson report to Columbia.
Document dated July 30th, 1863, assigning Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield as Orderly Sgt., 12th La. Inf. Regt., Vols. of African Descent. Signed by T. S. Binert, Assistant Adjutant General, by order of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Chatfield had been...
Copy photograph of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, USA. Excoriated for his dilatory role at Shiloh, Wallace was stationed in Union Depot, now Bartlett, Tenn., later in the Civil War. Courtesy of the Bartlett Historical Society.
Framed crayon portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of the 14th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. Also called Bradford's Battalion, it was virtually annihilated at Ft. Pillow, Tenn., in April 1864. Confederate forces under the command of Maj. Gen. Nathan...
Harris served as 1st Lt., Co. A, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the Newbern Blues, under Col. Tyree Bell of Dyer County. He also served as Adjutant for Col. Robert Russell. Information on the back of the photograph identifies this as a...
Special Orders No. 54 appointing a military commission to convene at the Pulaski courthouse for "the trial of persons as may be properly brought before it." Maj. C. H. Bures, 16th Ill. Cav., Capt. Erwin Ellis, 8th Mich. Cav., Capt. Joseph Hasty,...
Special order released Lewis S. Hodge (written as "Hodges" on the document) from the military prison in Nashville, Tenn. in "consideration of his age and feeble health." He had been imprisoned on a charge of harboring guerillas. Hodge was from...
Bayonet found near the site of Fort Pillow in the 1950s. In April 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest led an assault on Fort Pillow, at that time a Union outpost. The assault killed nearly half of the 600-man garrison, composed largely of African...
Cased ambrotype of Capt. (Maj.) Ben H. Sandeford, Co. H., 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the "Gibson Stars." Sandeford, a native of Jackson, Tenn., was killed in action on April 6, 1862, at Shiloh. In the portrait, he is standing and...
Letter from Maj. W. Jere Crook, 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his first cousin, once removed, Hattie Crook. He was from Henderson Co., Tenn., and she was from South Carolina. The two married after the war. At the time of the letter, Hattie was a...
Maj. W. Jere Crook, 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, writes to his fiancee, Hattie Crook. He comments on their future marriage and wishes he could be her "Guardian Angel." Crook writes in vague terms about the war, describing places in Alabama rather...
Letter from Maj. W. Jere Crook, 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his cousin, Hattie Crook. The two were first cousins, once removed. He was from Henderson County, Tenn., and she was from South Carolina. The two married after the war.
Presentation saber with silver grips and elaborately etched blade bearing floral sprays, the motto "E. Pluribus Unum," and [then] Captain Markham's name. Probably presented to Markham by his unit.
Hartmus, of Cos. F and S, 34th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was on staff of Gen. William B. Bate from 1862 to 1865. The carte de visite was taken by A. B. Langford, photographer, of Jackson, Tenn.
Letter from Robert A. Rutledge to Mary Minerva Rutledge concerning the climate and his living conditions, provisions, and financial situation. He attempts to dissuade his father from visiting him at the camp but expresses his weariness of the war...
Letter from Robert Rutledge describing a Union cavalry raid on his camp in which several men were wounded or captured and also a fight beween Harry Henry and an artilleryman in the camp. He asks about the condition of Mr. Runion, who has small pox;...
Correspondence; Children; Families; Mothers; Spouses; Civil Wars; War
Correspondence from Mary Guthrie Latta to her husband, Samuel R. Latta. This four-page letter provides information about the homelife of Mary Guthrie Latta since her husband's departure. She states that the family "is getting along as well and...
