Certificate of discharge for Pvt. William M. Smith, Co. F, 6th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. Smith enrolled on December 26, 1862, and was discharged on July 26, 1865. A resident of Hardin County at the time of his enlistment, Smith was born in Montgomery...
Broadside advertising "Lecture on the Science of Love in Courtship and Marriage" by Prof. H. Foster Smith at the Methodist Church at a cost of 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. The advertisement offers phrenological charts for $2 and...
Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In...
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...
Governor John Sevier's address to the Tennessee General Assembly as transcribed by Daniel Smith. Sevier debriefs members about the outcome of Tennessee's appeal for admission. At this time, he also summons the members to attend the first session...
Large lithographic poster advertising the 1926 Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. Illustration is of a "flapper-like" woman entwined in an American flag in front of Independence Hall.
Mezzotint-process portrait of Andrew Johnson, published by William Smith, Philadelphia, "entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by William Sartain in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn"...
Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
Christopher Ammons with Pvt. Smith (Smitty), a 35-year-old veteran of the Korean War who volunteered for Vietnam. The faces of the two soldiers are complete but the picture, which was probably torn from a photo-booth strip, has jagged edges at top...
Cover page of "War Memories" by W. W. Fergusson featuring calligraphied, stylized text for the title and hand-drawn, hand-colored Confederate and Federal flags.
Crayon print of James Washington Smith, Dover resident credited with showing Nathan Bedford Forrest and his Confederate troops an escape route from Grant's encirclement at Fort Donelson, February 1862.
Carte-de-visite of Dr. James W. Smith, credited with helping Nathan Bedford Forrest and some 2500 C.S.A. troops escape before the Confederate surrender at Fort Donelson in February 1862.
Daguerreotype of Rebecca Adkins (Lewis) Smith's mother, Rachel Lewis. Rachel Lewis is Daniel Lewis's wife. Doctor James Washington Smith is Rebecca's husband.
Napoleon Bonaparte Andrews tintype. He was born on January 6, 1844, in Virginia, and died October 14, 1900 in Monterey, Putnam County, Tennessee. The image is from New Middleton, Smith County, Tennessee.
Civil War-era Smith & Wesson revolver and holster. Serial number 23363. Model number 2. Also known as the "Number 2 Army." Made from 1863 to 1864. This is the same model that Wild Bill Hickok supposedly was carrying when he was killed at Deadwood,...
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.