A letter from J. W. Huline (?) to his cousin, Mary (Mollie) Pearre. Huline was a prisoner of war in Elmira, New York., Ward 38, Barricks No. 3. See Mary L. Pearre Diary & Photographs, TSLA Microfilm # 1957.
A native of Gibson County, Tenn., Patterson (known as Berry), served as a private in Co. B, 47th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. The certificate documents his transfer as a paroled prisoner of war from Cairo, Ill., to Trenton, Tenn.
Black and white photo of Peter Culberson (1833-1900). He served in the Union army, 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry. Was a prisoner of war in Cahawba, Alabama. He served tfrom April 1863 to June 1865. Culberson was from McMinn County,...
Born November 23, 1839, and died March 2, 1902, James Castor Fuqua lived his entire life in Macon County, Tennessee. He was in the 24th Tennessee Infantry Regiment and fought at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. He was wounded twice at the Battle...
Broken ambrotype of Captain Robert E. Mayes, who was born in Robertson County in 1823, and died in 1862. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment of the Tennessee State Militia on March 22, 1847. He later enlisted in the Confederate...
Certificate of release for Confederate prisoner Berry T. Patterson, Pvt., Co. B, 47th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, from Point Lookout, Md. Patterson was also a prisoner at Cairo, Ill.
Copy print of Confederate veteran, Capt. Robert Laird Evans, Co. I, 53rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, seated with his wife, Delilah Angus Evans, three unidentified women, and one child. Evans was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and sent to Johnson's...
Diagram of the area at Camp Forrest detailing the location of the different posts for the Second Provisional Regiment of the Tennessee State Guard during their maneuvers to be held March 25 to April 1, 1944.
Drawing of life inside Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp. Large central image depicts events in the camp and are numbered with a legend beneath describing each. Images of specific events surround the central image.
Drawing of three performers on stage, one with a violin, one with a banjo, and one dancing, advertising a concert to be performed by Confederate prisoners of war from John Hunt Morgan's cavalry at Camp Douglas. They appear to be performing the...
Enlisted in Company E, 18th Infantry, May 29, 1861, at Camp Cheatham. He was captured at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862, and sent to Camp Butler prisoner of war camp in Illinois. He was parolled and was killed at New Hope Church on May 16, 1864....
Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
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...
Prisoners of War; Guards; Horses; Cavalry; Horse artillery; War destruction & pillage; War damage; War; World War, 1914-1918
Germans taken prisoner by the Americans during the drive on the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt and the Canal St. de Quentin march along a road under guard. The background of the image features buildings which have sustained heavy war damage. ...
Governor Andrew Johnson describes the exchange of prisoners and commissions ex-Governor William B. Campbell to "examine and describe the terms and conditions" of the prisoner exchange.
Henry Clay Treadway standing outside a tent at the reunion of his Confederate regiment in Gettysburg, Pennslyvania. Treadway fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and was captured and taken prisoner.
Henry Clay Treadway standing outside with hat in hand at Barwick Plantation, home of his older brother, Richard Caldwell Treadway, and nephew, Major Andrew Treadway. Henry Clay Treadway fought in the Battle of Gettysburg and was captured and taken...
