Ten members of 194th MP Security Platoon on Vung Chua Mountain posing before patrol. Two are largely hidden. Visible, left to right, are Hammonds, Doughty, Riggle, Race, Manning, Lark, Thomas, and Leech. Two deuce-and-a-half trucks are beside and...
Military personnel; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Military vehicles
SP4 Thomas W. Page, of Clarksville, TN, leans with his left elbow against a 2 1/2 ton military transport truck in Vietnam. Page was with the 299th Combat Engineer Battalion. In the background is a populated area with a mountain in the distance.
SGT Christopher Ammons, pictured on his last patrol in Vietnam, appears to be fully armed. He is wearing a soft hat commonly called a "boonie" or "bush hat." This one has a fabric tape band of branch loops around the crown. These loops are meant to...
Yashica Electro 35 camera with which Christopher Ammons took most of his Vietnam photographs. The camera was purchased at the PX in Qui Nhon during his second tour.
Yashica Electro 35 camera with which Christopher Ammons took most of his Vietnam photographs. The camera was purchased at the PX in Qui Nhon during his second tour. Beside it are film canisters with "Vietnam" printed on them.
Cover of Yashica Electro 35 camera with which Christopher Ammons took most of his Vietnam photographs. The camera was purchased at the PX in Qui Nhon during his second tour. Also pictured are film canisters with "Vietnam" printed on them.
Christopher Ammonss1970 selective service card shows his name and signature on one side and physical description on the reverse. The classification of IV-A would have exempted him from service (for those whose military obligation was completed, or...
Hand-drawn map showing the area around Knoxville, indicating fortifications and other landmarks. The map was created by Seth Alden Abbey (1798-1880) and was included in a diary that he kept. The map shows the disposition of forces, gun...
Cover image of the "Washington Artillery Souvenir" booklet featuring a tiger surrounded by a laurel wreath with the words "Try Us" printed on a ribbon beneath the image. An American flag appears on the left and a blue flag featuring the slogan "Non...
Photograph of Dr. John H. Buford, a Confederate medic who served in the cavalry during the Civil War. He fought in the Battles of Forts Henry and Donelson. Buford later became a doctor serving the Lesbia community in Stewart County.
Silver plate, serving spoon, four place spoons, one teaspoon, two dinner forks and four luncheon fork. All engraved "Athenaeum." Mostly of the fiddle pattern.
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....
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Camps -- Food Service
The dining area at Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Sam Houston. Multiple tables with place settings are visible. The kitchen and serving area are also visible in the background. The central room heating furnace is also featured.
Special contract beween the Confederate Headquarters Volunteer and Conscript Bureau and H. M. Blake for Blake's slave, Squire, an 18-year-old male valued at $1,600.00, to be employed by the Confederate Army as a teamster. The order is issued by...
Confederate voucher No. 4, account of the payroll for eight men: two clerks, one office clerk, and five men in charge of driving cattle, for terms of 29, 31, 62, and 92 days, and ranging from $36.35 to $115.00. Signed by Captain and Assistant...
Confederate Voucher No. 34 stating the amount of food provided to sixty mules serving in the field under Major G. A. Atkins for November 1863. The mules consumed 19,824 pounds of corn. Voucher signed by Brigadier General William A. Quarles.
Application of William H. Adams requesting back pay for his service as a private in the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment commanded by Captain Andrew J. Garrison and Colonel A. E. Garret. He claims he was wrongfully declared a deserter. Application...
