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  • Photograph of William Henry Palmer with his GAR medallion
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    William Henry Palmer with his Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) medallion. Palmer was born November 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Man sitting on Texas deck of "City of Memphis"
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    Steamboats; Men; Ship captains
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    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....
  • Miers River Photo Collection
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  • Correspondence from J. W. Maybin to John S. Brien, March 12, 1864
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    Correspondence; Cities & towns; Campaigns & battles; Troop movements; Surrenders; Plantations; Cotton plantations; Civil Wars; War
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    Two-page letter from J. W. Maybin of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to John S. Brien. The letter requests legal advice from John S. Brien, "one of the first legal minds in the United States," regarding his legal options after having seen much of his...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • John Duncan Diary
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    Farms; Farming; Plantations; Cotton plantations; Agricultural laborers
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    Transcription of the diary of John Duncan of the University of the South. The diary has been typed on carbon paper. The diary includes only the year 1868.
  • Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
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  • Title page of Report of Freedmen's Department of Tennessee
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    Freedmen
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    Title page of the superintendent's report of the Freedmen Department for Tennessee and Arkansas.
  • Reconstruction and the African-American Legacy in Tennessee
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  • William Henry Palmer tintype
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    Tintype of William Henry Palmer as a lieutenant in the 68th Ohio Vol. Reg. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Tintype of Albert Haws Gray and Florinda Bell Gray and ambrotype of unidentified soldier
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    Tintype of Albert Haws Gray and Florinda Bell Gray in a case with an ambrotype of an unidentified soldier (possibly their son?). The Grays migrated from Indiana to Mississippi County, Missouri.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Correspondence from Arthur H. Harris to George Carroll Harris, January 13, 1861
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    Civil Wars; War
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    This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Ashport to Memphis Confederate Map, circa 1861
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    Maps; Forts & fortifications; Batteries (Weaponry); Artillery (Weaponry); Cities & towns; Islands; Wetlands; Plantations; Rivers; Bodies of water; Military camps
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    Maps; Maps, Military; Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
  • Historical Maps of Tennessee
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  • Map showing the lands assigned to emigrant Indians west of Arkansas & Missouri, 1836
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    Maps; Indigenous peoples; Rivers; Forts & fortifications
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  • Historical Maps of Tennessee
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  • Spoon/fork combination utensil
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    This item was used during the Civil War by John B. W. Bond who was a member of Co. A, 35th Tenn. Inf. (5th Tenn. Regt., Prov. Army Mountain Rifle Regt.), CSA. The item is a combination spoon/fork utensil, and may have been used in the Shelton's...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Inaugural Button of Andrew Jackson
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    This button was found in a Confederate camp in Corinth, Mississippi, which was used after the Battle of Shiloh. Button is marked "Andrew Jackson, March 1829." Found in a fire pit.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Reunion of Civil War Veterans at Shiloh
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    Soldiers; Trees
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    Thirty individuals taking part in a Civil War veterans reunion at Shiloh National Battlefield.
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Hobart Parrish comments on the Civilian Conservation Corps as a recovery organization
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    The money made by the Civilian Conservation Corps could be spent by the family and it would help the towns that it went to. A butchershop owner once told Parrish if it hadn't been for Civilian Conservation Corps money he would've had to close. It...
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
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  • The Daily Citizen newspaper
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    The Daily Citizen newspaper from Vicksburg, Mississippi. This issue was printed on wallpaper.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • "City of Memphis" at river landing
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    Steamboats; Bodies of water; Laborers
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    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...
  • Miers River Photo Collection
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  • James L. Goodloe
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    Portrait photographs
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    Side view of James L. Goodloe He is dressed in his military uniform and has his hand on the hilt of his sword as if he might draw it out.
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Southwestern, the College of the Mississippi Valley, Memphis, Tenn.
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    Buildings; Universities and colleges; Southwestern College (Memphis, Tenn.)
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    Shown is Palmer Hall which opened in 1925 when the College relocated to Memphis. Partial view of Kennedy Hall at left. Postcard #108751.
  • Tennessee Postcard Collection
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  • William Churchill Kirkland shadowbox
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    Shadowbox containing a carte-de-visite of William Churchill Kirkland (January 10, 1839 - January 6, 1926). It also contains a 1914 reunion ribbon for a joint Confederate and Federal reunion. Kirkland enlisted at Corinth, Mississippi, on June 2,...
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Greetings from the City of Memphis
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    Buildings; Libraries; Monuments; Parks; Cotton; Postage stamps
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    Scenes of Memphis: Cossit Library; Lily Pond, Overton Park; Country Club; Landing at Riverside Park; Handling Cotton; Forest [i.e. Forrest] Monument; Tennessee Trust Building. Two-cent red George Washington postage stamp.
  • Tennessee Postcard Collection

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