Small pewter cup with flowers engraved on the body and handle. The owner of the cup, Josiah H. Harper, fought with Confederate cavalry commander Gen. Joseph Wheeler. Harper was born in the Rock City community in Smith County, Tenn. He married Mary...
Military officers; Military uniforms; Militias; Military training; Military education
Tennesse State Guard officers who attended military training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia in 1942. There are approximately forty-three officers in the photograph.
This blacksmith-made Bowie knife belonged to Sgt. George Boyd Smith of Bristol, Tenn. Smith served in Co. E, 61st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. He was captured at Vicksburg, Miss.
Tintype of Dock Monroe Smith (1841-1926). Smith fought for the Confederacy as a sergeant with Co. C, Holman's Battalion, Tenn. Partisan Rangers and then with Co. E, 11th Tenn. Cav. Regt. He served under Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, participating in...
Two $5 Confederate notes with image of Jefferson Davis in lower left corner. Promises to pay bearer five dollars "two years after ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate States and the United States."
Two young brothers from Pulaski, Tennessee. Dressed in black uniforms and holding hands with their arms around their shoulders. Leonidas is on the left and Buckner is on the right. Buckner was killed in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Leonidas...
Two-page letter written by Ammons to his family on the day he arrived in Vietnam. He describes conditions and housing at the 90th Replacement Battalion headquarters, 22 miles north of Saigon; the appearance and poverty of the Vietnamese villagers;...
Variation of a Rose of Sharon applique quilt. The quilt was made by Letitia Levine Smith. She made it as a wedding quilt for her marriage to Ed Walter.
