The grounds of the Tennessee School for the Deaf early in the construction of the facilities. Two buildings are shown. Both have two floors completed with brick walls. Tall scaffold frame is visible between them. A man can be seen leaning against...
The grounds of the Tennessee School for the Deaf early in the construction of the facilities. Several sites are seen in various stages of completion. The one nearest appears to have part of the floor and some of the façade completed. Buildings in...
The grounds of the Tennessee School for the Deaf early in the construction of the facilities. Two buildings are shown. The building on the right has three floors completed with brick walls. The building on the left has the two lower floors and one...
The grounds of the Tennessee School for the Deaf early in the construction of the facilities. The nearest building has much of the floor and one shingled wall completed. The buildings in the distance have most of the second floors finished. Wooden...
Letter from King detailing his health and time in a camp near Wanesborough, Augusta County, Virginia. King may have been from near Holstein, East Tennessee.
On the back, it states that the photograph is presented to Amelia S. Jacobs on October 9, 1862, by (name illegible). Seller indicated that the unit pictured is the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, but this cannot be confirmed.
Letter from Mary Hull, a lady assisting wounded at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, to the Rev. Asa Routh, a Baptist minister and father-in-law of Wiley Bartlett, announcing Bartlett's death the day before (October 14, 1864)
Cabinet card portrait of Thomas Hughes, Co. E, 61st N. C. Inf. Regt., CSA. He was wounded in the arm. Hughes is in a Confederate uniform with his hand Napoleon-style in coat. Background consists of a vase with flowers and a small table with books.
Marian McAlister Sawrie (October 20,1845 - February 6, 1891), married Wililam S. Sawrie on February 13, 1868, and died in St. Petersburg, Florida. Photograph was taken when she was 16.
Special order released Lewis S. Hodge (written as "Hodges" on the document) from the military prison in Nashville, Tenn. in "consideration of his age and feeble health." He had been imprisoned on a charge of harboring guerillas. Hodge was from...
This order commanded Lewis S. Hodge to appear for trial before the Court Term Military Commission at the Giles County courthouse on April 12, 1865, on the charge of harboring Confederate guerillas. Hodge was imprisoned in Nashville, Tenn., and...
Letter from Maj. W. Jere Crook, 13th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his first cousin, once removed, Hattie Crook. He was from Henderson Co., Tenn., and she was from South Carolina. The two married after the war. At the time of the letter, Hattie was a...
Consolidated provision return for the 75th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers commanded by Colonel Milton S. Robinson for 6 days, from November 23-26, 1862. The document lists number of rations (4,891), pounds of fresh beef, bacon, beans, rice,...
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the columns in the cloister of Basilica de S. Giovanni in Laterano. The sketch shows an unfinished drawing and next to it a finished sketch. Strickland gives a handwritten description of the columns.