Letter to Mr. J. H. Griffith from unknown writer who was located at a camp between Williamston and Georgetown, Kentucky. Letter discusses marching through Kentucy from Cumberland's Gap and seeing dead Union soldiers in Richmond. Also comments on...
Discharge paper for Isaac Cornett, Company I, 13th Tennessee Cavalry. Adjutant General's Office form #99. Enlisted August 19,1864 and mustered out September 5, 1865. Appointed captain on August 1, 1865.
Remington Model 1858 .36 caliber Navy revolver. This type of gun was mostly used by Federal soldiers. It was made by E. Remington & Sons in Ilion, New York. It has a patent date of September 14, 1858, inscribed on the underside of the barrel.
CSA cavalry sword and scabard that belonged to Jacob Cruse of Lincoln County, Tennessee. Cruse enlisted at George's Store on April 29, 1861. He served until April 27, 1862, and was discharged. Cruse re-enlisted on April 29, 1863, as a private in...
Hotel tap bell. This bell is reported to be the same style bell as the bell used at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, during the Civil War. The Galt House was a meeting place for Federal generals during the Civil War. Brig. Gen. Jefferson...
Letter from 1st Lt. John A. Crutchfield, Co. F, 20th (Russell's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., part of Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in northern Mississippi in "Camp Near Oxford, Miss." Crutchfield states that "the Yanks have all gone back to Memphis" after...
John Sanford Barker was born July 8, 1827, in Monroe County, Tennessee, the son of Burrell and Elizabeth Barker. He was a veteran of the Union Army, serving from September 1864 through June 1865 under Capt. Charles A. Pickens in Co. A, 5th Regt....
Head and shoulders portrait of Zina B. Chatfield (1828-1923). N. H. Black, photographer. Chatfield enlisted in Co. A, 4th Minn. Inf. Regt. on September 27, 1861. He was commissioned an officer in Co. F., U. S. Colored Troops, 58th Inf. Regt., on...
Muster roll for Capt. Zina B. Chatfield's Co. F, 58th Inf. Regt., United States Colored Troops. These troops were recruited in the vicinity of Natchez and Vicksburg, Miss. Chatfield enlisted in Co. A, 4th Minn. Inf. Regt. on September 27, 1861. He...
Full-plate tintype, approximately 5" x 7", hand-colored head and shoulders portrait of Zina Bradley Chatfield (1828-1923). Photograph probably taken after the war. Chatfield enlisted in Co. A, 4th Minn. Inf. Regt. on September 27, 1861. He was...
Orders issued by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant appointing Sgt. Zina B. Chatfield of Co. A, 4th Regt., Minn. Inf. Vols., USA, Orderly Sgt., in the 12th Regt. of Louisiana Volunteers of African Descent. Signed by John Aaron Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant...
Appointment of Capt. Zina B. Chatfield to 6th Miss. Inf., Vols. of African Descent, Sept. 7, 1863. Chatfield is to report to Col. Absalom S. Smith, 6th Miss. Inf., Vols. of African Descent.
Letter from Pvt. William Joshua Thomas, Hale's Battery, Va. Lt. Arty., CSA, to his sister (name unknown) while Thomas was a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio. Thomas writes of his capture along with some four hundred other men. He reports on his good...
Letter (certification note) from Andrew Moore granting his son, James, age 15, permission to enlist in the U. S. Army for a period of three years. Signed Sept. 2, 1862, St. Clair, Ill.
This Grand Army of the Republic veteran medal belonged to Pvt. William Wilkerson Masters of Co. M, 8th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. He walked with his brother Alexander to Knoxville to join the Union army and served from May 31, 1863, until September 11,...
