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.
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
Hand-stitched, U. S. flag made by Charles Myers, commissioned officer of the U. S. Navy. The flag has thirteen stars sewn on both sides and contains wool bunting.
Pvt. Thomas R. Myers, Co. F, 41st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, wrote this letter from Rock Island Prison, Ill., to his brother in Wartrace, Tenn. Myers was captured at Lebanon, Ala., on Feb. 1, 1864, reported exchanged on March 2, 1865, and released May...
Receipt for the delivery by Peter Myers of nine bodies from Cumberland Gap. These were Civil War casualties, perhaps taken from battlefield graves for reburial in Knoxville National Cemetery.
This deed is for the sale of a "negro boy of yellow complexion named Ned aged about seventeen years." fJohn Hickerson sold the slave to Erwin Myers & Co. for $800.
William T. Myers paid $422 to Jonathan Eakin, administrator of the estate of Abram Myers, to hire several slaves. The names listed include Paul, George, Elick, Elijah, Lettie, Celia, Emily, Jerry, Lewis, Caroline, and William. He also paid $120 to...
