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.
Lorenzo "Jack" Sanders of Cross Plains kept this diary. He was in Company K, 30th Infantry, Tennessee Volunteers, and was captured at the fall of Fort Donelson. The date span appears to be 1863-1864. Author died on May 27, 1925.
Saber from Nashville Plow Works. Confederate copy of 1840 U. S. saber which is itself a copy of a French saber. The saber has "C. S. A." as a part of the casting and has the original scabbard.
Double-barrel shotgun, marked "Fall and Cunningham," which was a hardware store in Nashville. On the other side of the lockplate it is marked Nashville, TN. Oftentimes, these guns were made in Europe but stamped locally. This was a civilian weapon...
Broken ambrotype of Captain Robert E. Mayes, who was born in Robertson County in 1823, and died in 1862. He was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment of the Tennessee State Militia on March 22, 1847. He later enlisted in the Confederate...
Civil War era gun made before the war. The gun was originally made as a flint lock. The U. S. Army (between 1842 and the 1850s) took on a conversion project to convert flint locks to percussion guns.
Carte de visite of Spicer Canady from Auglaize County, Ohio. He was killed in action at Shiloh, Tenn., on April 2, 1862. Canady is buried in the military cemetery at Shiloh.
Muzzle loading, back action percussion lock, .36 caliber rifle. The rifle is approximately 40" long with an octagon barrel, full stock with brass covered joint just behind the lower ramrod pipe. The wood has an unusual finish (probably refinished)....
U. S. brass powder flask, part of the accoutrements of the rifle regiment, 1842-1855. The name of the manufacturer, Beatty, is imprinted on the back. By 1855, these types of flasks were eliminated from the armory, but were often used in the early...
Military commission for 2nd Lt. Archibald B. McLean (misspelled as McLane), Co. C, 57th Regt., Ill. Vols., USA. Commissioned by Richard Yates, Governor of the State of Illinois. The commission began on June 7, 1862, and is registered in book A,...
Shadowbox containing assorted relics, including an 1863 Springfield rifle musket hammer, harness buckles, a wrench, minie balls, and carbine cartridge cases.
