A handwritten roster of the commissioned officers of the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers. Roster includes name of member, rank, and miscellaneous remarks.
Two-page handwritten letter from Ammons to his family telling of his assignment to the 1st Infantry Division in Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry. He describes sewing on his division patch and the stripes that represent his PFC E-3 rank. He...
Military personnel; Soldiers; Uniforms; Military uniforms; Arms & armament
Christopher Ammons setting trip flares or seismic detection devices around Vung Chua Mountain. The patches for the 1st Infantry (his unit in his first tour) and the 1st Signal Brigade (to which he was attached in his second tour) are on his...
Carte de visite of J. J. Neeley with rank of captain (early 1861). Note the yellow cavalry sash, confederate brass frame revolver, saber, and two-piece Haiman C S beltplate. Photograph by Fittman & Wolfrom. Three-cent tax stamp on reverse. Neeley...
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Shield-shaped red felt patch embroidered in gold and green thread with a tree, a surveying tool, and the letters "CCC" appearing at the top of the shield.
Two-barrelled revolver (pistol & short-barrel shotgun) used by Confederates and made in Paris, France. Ramrod intact. "1781 LM" incised in plate. "Col LeMat Bte S.G.D.G [French abbreviation for Brevet rank] Paris" incised on top of octagonal barrel.
Letter ordering an officer to go with a guard of one non-commissioned officer and six men in order to take charge of a passenger train on the Rome Railroad; the letter includes additional instructions. An example of the form to be kept is...
Crayon print of Pvt. Thomas Burchfield and Pvt. John G. Burchfield, of Co. B, 13th Cav. Regt., USA. Family reports that they were bridge burners in the secret service under Col. John K. Miller. Other sources list Co. G for John G. Burchfield. They...
Copyprint of George Hampton, Co. G., 16th US Colored Inf. Regt. Hampton was born in Warren Co., Ky. He mustered in at Clarksville, Tenn., February 16, 1864 and attained the rank of sergeant in October 1865. He died December 28, 1908, and is buried...
This card, written in German, includes the information obtained about Prisoner of War Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. when he was captured by the Germans during World War II. It includes his name, rank, identity disk (Erkennungsmarke), service number,...
One-page document recording the retirement from military service of Jesse West of Smith County, Tennessee. The certificate provides West's rank, company, civilian occupation, and physical description. It is signed by three Confederate surgeons.
John Nathaniel Henderson (1843-1907) enlisted in Company E, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade in the beginning of the war and lost an arm at Antietam. After being wounded, he served under General J. B. Robertson in the rank of captain. After...
John Nathaniel Henderson (1843-1907) enlisted in Company E, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade in the beginning of the war and lost an arm at Antietam. After being wounded, he served under General J. B. Robertson in the rank of captain. After...
John Nathaniel Henderson (1843-1907) enlisted in Company E, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade in the beginning of the war and lost an arm at Antietam. After being wounded, he served under General J. B. Robertson in the rank of captain. After...
Carte-de-visite of Kinloch Falconer of Holly Springs, Mississippi. He was the Assistant Adjutant of the Army of Tennessee, CSA, rank of major. Falconer died of yellow fever in September 1878 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
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Military commission for 2nd Lt. Archibald B. McLean (misspelled as McLane), Co. C, 57th Regt., Ill. Vols., USA. Commissioned by Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois. The commission began on June 7, 1862, and is registered in book A,...
