Pete Shelton (pictured here) had a father who was killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre. This picture was taken at home. The twins (babies) are Robert and Hobert. The three children are Jake, Bruce, and Macon Shelton. The two older children are...
5th Tenn. Confederate Veterans. The photograph was taken in front of the Confederate Memorial in Paris, Tennessee. An inscription on the back lists the following individuals: "Top row: A. H. Hancock, J. W. Bowden, Pack Orr, J. Watt Allen, Jack...
Willis Crawford Rushing (1826-1916) was a Civil War veteran living in Benton County in 1897. He is pictured here with his family. Seated, left to right: Lively Etta Rushing Fry (1863-1943), Ernest E. Fry (1868-1937), Sophia Ann Rushing...
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...
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...
Similar to Pennsylvania German fraktur, beautifully drawn red & brown ink doves, flag, and cannon embellish the marriage record of Robert Irick and Sarah M. Selvidge. Children's birth and death dates are also recorded. Includes "R. R. Irick,...
Pvt. Robert A. Cheatham served in Co. C, 1st Tenn. (Feilds') Inf. Regt., CSA, during the Civil War. Based on the uniform, it is an early war image, unusual for the 'C' on his cap. Calvert, a Nashville photographer, reproduced this image as a glass...
Image possibly drawn from a photograph. It bears a facsimili of Lee's signature. Item possibly sold as a fundraiser for the tomb of Stonewall Jackson. Image and original frame by Purnell Galleries, Baltimore, Md.
Harris served as 1st Lt., Co. A, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the Newbern Blues, under Col. Tyree Bell of Dyer County. He also served as Adjutant for Col. Robert Russell. Information on the back of the photograph identifies this as a...
Panorama photograph of Confederate veterans and their families taken at a reunion at the Murfreesboro, Tenn., fairgrounds. Robert Cannon Garrett, former private with Jackson's Cav. Co., is seated to the right of the middle, a blue arrow above his...
Cabinet card of Sgt. Robert Caruthers Maupin, Co. F, 5th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA, standing in uniform with one hand tucked into his jacket. The son of Robert B. Maupin and Nancy Wood Maupin, Robert Caruthers fought for the Union against his brother,...
Cabinet card of Confederate veteran James (Jim) Maupin. The son of Robert B. Maupin and Nancy Wood Maupin, James sided with the Confederate cause during the war while his brother, Robert C. Maupin, fought for the Union.
The photograph includes Asa Stone Lee, Nancy Jacobs Lee, Thomas Jefferson Lee, Mary Jane Lee Nesbit, Robert Lee, John Jacobs Lee, and several others. Most of the men served in the Civil War. Robert Lee was killed and Asa was wounded in the war. The...
Oval-framed portrait of Daniel Fenten Cocke. He was married to Margaret Robertson. Cocke was a supply officer for General Robert E. Lee and a colonel until the end of the war, at which point he was made a general. The Cockes were from Sequatchie...
Bill of sale for one slave, Simon, aged twenty-two, for the sum of $968 to Robert B. Maupin. During the Civil War, Maupin's family split among Union and Confederate lines. One son, Robert Caruthers Maupin, fought for the Union while the other son,...
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...
