Mary Ellet Cabell, daughter of Col. Charles Ellet, who established the U.S. Ram Fleet for the Army, wrote to Col. George B. Corkhill about the heroic actions of her father and brother in the naval battles for Memphis and Vicksburg. Col. Ellet was a...
Diary of Col. J. J. Neeley, 14th (Neeley's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA. The diary lists horses, mules, etc., purchased for Hardeman's Avengers (Conf. cavalry and infantry units) organizations & elections, encampments, enemy engagements/battles, etc. The...
Saber belonged to Capt. Samuel Rankin Latta (1827-1910). Latta was of Irish descent. He was reared in Pennsylvania and moved to Dyersburg, Tenn., where he was a lawyer, teacher, Presbyterian elder, Sunday school superintendent, and Mason. Latta...
The photograph includes Asa Stone Lee, Nancy Jacobs Lee, Thomas Jefferson Lee, Mary Jane Lee Nesbit, Robert Lee, John Jacobs Lee, and several others. Most of the men served in the Civil War. Robert Lee was killed and Asa was wounded in the war. The...
Letter from Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873) to his daughter, Cornelia, on June 7, 1863, regarding her previous letter and being wounded by a shell on his right leg on May 14, 1863.
Hansford James, son of John James and Nancy Smyth, born November 3, 1822, died March 23, 1883. Married Mary Melvina Bell, January 12, 1854. Hansford James served in the War Between the States under General Robert E. Lee's command. Captured at the...
Account Form No. 12 from the United States Army Quartermaster for 42 wagon loads of corn in husk equal to 47,040 pounds, for the use of the 21st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio; 840 bushels and sixty carts per bushel. Received at...
Sheet music covers; Dogs; Beaches; Graves; Shipwrecks
Blue-toned print of a dog lying on a grave at the seashore with a wrecked vessel in the shallow water just offshore. Under print: "Words and Music by Paul Dresser." Cover artist unknown.
Cover depicts Lady Liberty standing boldly in a harbor with her left foot on wrapped coils of gunpowder encased around an axe. The American Eagle is shown to her right rear and tall ships can be seen in the harbor. Color.
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