Cabinet card of Harlan family. The reverse reads: "Cornlis Neal Harlan and Aunt Nan McClellan Harlan, Mother and Father to Maggie B. Harlan, Rogersville, Tenn. Nancy Jane McClellan Harlan born 5/27/1845, died 12/16/1917. Maggie Bell Harlan (baby)...
Letter from Private Daniel Richard Phelps to his mother in Maryville. Letter describes travelling from Nashville, chasing General John Bell Hood's army and capturing prisoners and artillery.
American or French sword. Predates Civil War. Non-standard sword. Handle is mother of pearl with eagle's head. Has Marshall markings on it. Possibly imported.
Daguerreotype of Rebecca Adkins (Lewis) Smith's mother, Rachel Lewis. Rachel Lewis is Daniel Lewis's wife. Doctor James Washington Smith is Rebecca's husband.
Knights Templar fraternity sword. The sword includes a white lily insignia to symbolize the Knights Templar fraternity. It also includes the letters "UR" that signified uniformed ranks. The name "C. B. Baer" is engraved on the blade. The sword...
Letter from Titus Rodgers to his mother. He tells her that he is well and his company has been twelve days on the march. Titus enlisted in Chicago with his brother Oliver. Family lore states that he was on Gen. Grant's staff. He is said to have...
Letter from Pvt. Samuel Daniel Bayless, Co. C, 60th Tenn. Mtd. Inf. (Crawford's Regt.), CSA, to his wife Arrena from Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bayless longs for home and writes, "will come home as sone as I can git mother I want you and July to have...
A small leather-bound Bible picked up on a Georgia battlefield. Within the Bible is a handwritten letter from a mother to her son. Birth and marriage dates are included for William Wiley Dunn and Mary H. E. Vineyard and their children Wiliam,...
Morris provides his cousins with news of the deaths of his mother and Laura [relationship unstated]. He relates his hardships caused by the war and writes, "Life is the running of a race and Death the goal, so then let us look a head to that time...
Letter to Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA, from his wife, Nancy Norris Loretz Warlick, and his mother, Nancy Norris Warlick. Included in the letter are details of the Federal occupation of the area (near Jackson,...
Ceremonial flag of the Barrow Guards, Gordon's Bn., later known as Co. C, 1st Tenn. Cav. Regt. (Col. James T. Wheeler's), CSA. The flag is hand-sewn with eleven stenciled stars, hand-drawn pen and ink lettering and scroll. The flag belonged to...
Letter from Sgt. David Mullins, Co. K, 41st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his wife Genetia. He describes leaving Camp Morton, Ind., and heading to Chattanooga, Tenn. The original version of the letter to Mullins's wife is not available in its complete...
Silver goblet presented to Eliza H. (Hudson) Ward from her mother on the occasion of her birthday. Inscription reads, "Eliza H. Ward, from Mother--10th Feb. 1864." The family lived in Nashville during the war.
Letter from Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873) to his daughter, Cornelia, on May 7, 1866, regarding her mother's death from an excrutiating and painful sickness.
