Carte-de-visite of Martha Tennessee Pointer. She married Monroe Pointer in 1858. Their children died in 1862 and 1863. Mrs. Pointer died in January 1866. The child pictured is believed to be the one who died in 1863 as they appear to be in...
Carte-de-visite of Monroe Pointer, who joined Co. L, 154th Tenn. Inf., in Memphis, March 1862. He was wounded in the neck at Shiloh and ended the war as a conscript at the Grenada, Miss., supply depot, May 1865.
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
