Inventory of the effects of Enos Thompson, Private, Co. D, 4th US Cavalry. Died March 15, 1863 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, following the Battle of Stones River. Includes physical description of soldier. Thompson is buried at the Stone River...
Military personnel; Presidents; Presidential appointments
Military commission of Lewis T. (aka Louis Thompson) Morris, Brevet Major, U. S. Army, December 16, 1864, "for gallant and meritorious service at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee," signed by President Andrew Johnson, cosigned by Edwin M. Stanton,...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
Military personnel; Soldiers; Military uniforms; Arms & armament; Military facilities; Machine guns; Firearms
Sgt. Ammons poses with a Thompson submachine gun captured from a 1968 encounter with the Viet Cong around Vung Chua Mountain. Note: a non-color-corrected master TIFF copy is also available.
Prisons; Prisoners of war; Prison hospitals; Prison guards; Sutlers; Military medicine
Hand-drawn color map of the military prison at Johnson's Island in the bay of Sandusky, Ohio, where captured Confederate officers were held. Prison buildings and grounds are labeled. Drawn by Capt. J. T. Hogane, Topographical Engineer, C.S.A.,...
"Roll call of Co. F, 6th Tenn. Cav. by Levi Thompson for the pleasure of the surviving brethren." The roll lists the name, age, enlistment date and mustered in date for each member of the company. The roll is in pieces, and has been taped in...
An elaborately engraved title sheet, in red, accompanied by a black-and-white sketch of the Negro Building at the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition. "Dedicated to Mrs. J. C. Thompson." By W.E. Braswell. Arranged By Thos. E. Broady.
Certificate of pardon and amnesty for John Overton of Davidson County, Tenn., "for all offences by him committed, arising from participation, direct or implied, in the said [Rebellion]," under conditions issued by President Andrew Johnson. The...
Map showing the proposed route of the Memphis-Nashville-Bristol Highway to be constructed 1911-1913. The map shows all the counties of Tennessee with their county seats, as well as the major railroads through Tennessee. There are advertisements...
Clothing accounts for 1st Sergeant W. Clinton Lewis, Sergeant Charles Thompson, and Sergeant Norman McLeod all of Company G, 60th Regiment, New York Volunteers.
5th Tenn. Confederate Veterans. The photograph was taken in front of the Confederate Memorial in Paris, Tennessee. An inscription on the back lists the following individuals: "Top row: A. H. Hancock, J. W. Bowden, Pack Orr, J. Watt Allen, Jack...
Copy of a model 1860 light cavalry saber and scabbard, found in the vicinity of Thompson Creek and Shipman Creek, southeast Bedford Co., while quail hunting.
