These two pages each have a heading - "Kriege Relief" and "In the Dark of Night - Nuenberg," but nothing has been drawn. It appears that what Mitchener calls "Nuenberg" is the city of Nuremberg in south central Germany.
This foot officer's sword was manufactured by Ames. Family legend states that the sword originally belonged to John Hunt Morgan and was taken when he was killed. The sword most likely belonged to a captain and not Morgan. It's a decorative sword;...
Letter describing his intense desire to get home to wife and children: if he gets back to Tennessee, he will come home no matter what his officers say.
Commanders book that belonged to Evin Knudson. The book contains cartes de visite of officers in his chain of command in the Union Army. Cartes de visite of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Vice President Andrew Johnson...
Abstract for articles received from officers, Battery H, 1st Illinois Light Artillery, USA, for September 1863. Abstracts were inventory forms listing the equipment of a unit that commanders had to fill out and turn in to army quartermasters. The...
Program of the Scott-Dickson Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, No. 197. 1929-1930 reunion in McKinney, Texas. Lists members, officers, and the program schedule.
Model 1860 staff and field officers' sword and scabbard, marked on Riccassa "BENT & BUSH/ BOSTON, MASS." Sword has engraved blade, nice patination on guard and hilt, and the knuckle bow is slightly detached at pommel.
"Regulations for the Army of Confederate States" book published in Richmond, Virginia, in 1863. Wartime edition of official Confederate Army tactics, military protocols, and rules for officers and various departments (Engineers, Ordnance, etc.) of...
Misemer writes that officers are riding around the camp telling soldiers that they will be paroled and of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Richmond. He also says that he has heard that two of his comrades have come from Andersonville and are doing...
Letter to "Dear, Dear Wife" (J. E. Harrison) written by a soldier from Camp Jackson, 15 miles from Gallatin. The writer is enjoying good health, but wants to see his wife very much. "[I]t want be long till I will come to hold you to my bosem, the...
Engraved reproduction of Julio's "Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson." General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson each seated on horseback side by side with three officers also on horseback behind them. It is a copy of the artist's rendering...
Pamphlet describing the proceedings of a mass meeting of the 7th Tenn. Cav., Rucker's Brigade, Jackson's Division, CSA. The resolutions expressed by this meeting of officers and enlisted men, despite the short time remaining for hostilities, are...
Cased daguerreotype of Capt. Flavel L. Barber, Co. A, 3rd (Brown's) Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Barber wears a double-breasted Confederate officer's front coat with a dark cuff and dark collar. The "chicken guts" piping on the sleeves are appropriate...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard both serving food and standing in line to receive a meal inside the Clarksville Armory. A small boy is pictured at the front of the line. This barbecue followed the September 10, 1944 military...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Five uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are seated as they eat their barbecue in the Clarksville Armory. The meal was served following the military program staged at the facility by the 2nd Regiment of the Tennessee State Guard on...
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Two young uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are sitting with two young ladies as they all eat and socialize at the Clarksville Armory Barbecue.
Armories; Military facilities; Military depots; Military training; Military inspections; Barbecues; Military officers; Militias
Uniformed members of the Tennessee State Guard are in the foreground of this image. They and the civilian spectators pictured behind them are standing outside the Clarksville Armory watching the various spectacles and demonstrations that are;...
