Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
View of the front and side entrances to Shady Valley School in Johnson County. A group of five unidentified individuals is shown sitting on the steps of the side entrance.
View of a unidentified crop of corn. On back is the quote: "Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the gold corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn! -Whittier".
Military headquarters; Log cabins; Military officers; Military uniforms
Union General Joseph Hooker with generals and staff. Hooker appears as the central figure (Number 3); Number 2 is General Daniel Butterfield; Number 1 is General John W. Geary; and Number 4 is General William G. Le Duc. A Capt. Hall and Capt....
Two-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...
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...
Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
Military personnel; Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Hats; Arms & armament; Ammunition; Mountains
Two soldiers are holding pieces of an M-16 rifle that had been run over when it fell out of a truck. The soldier on the left is wearing a cast on his left foot. Note: a non-color-corrected master TIFF copy is also available.
Two maps illustrating the so-called Lakeland Plan or Plan B, which was an internal security plan of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Tennessee State Guard during World War II.
Tintype of Henry Jenks and an unidentified individual. Jenks and a friend escaped (dug out) from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, and made it safely back to Union territory to rejoin their regiments.
Three-quarter legth tintype of Frederick Claybrooke. It is set in a hinged oval case. The text states that he was killed at Hoover's Gap while leading his regiment into battle.
This revolver belonged to Capt. John T. Cox, 29th Miss. Inf. Regt., CSA, out of Corinth, Miss. His name and unit are carved into the handle. Cox fought at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Bentonville and was mortally wounded at the...
This pro-Confederate newspaper, originally printed in Memphis, was published in Jackson, Miss., after being run out of Grenada, Miss., by Federal forces. It eventually moved on to Meridian, Miss., and Montgomery, Ala.
This page is blank except for a drawing of a military tank that has been cut out from another sheet of paper and placed in the diary. Underneath the tank, Mitchener has written, "From the West" and "Lt. Hardy A. Mitchener." In addition to the...
Barbed wire; Prisoners; Military personnel; War; Fighting; Firearms
This page in Mitchener's diary shows the prisoners and guards seeking cover in a trench; several German guards are pictured shooting guns. Mitchener writes, "Near Priebus, second nite out ---C'est le guerre [It's war] - Down the road, rattled a...
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...
This image was drawn by Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. in the diary that he received during his stay at a German prisoner of war camp. It pictures an airman, probably Mitchener himself, falling out of the sky in a parachute. His plane has been shot down,...
