Tintype of Madison Monroe Wallace (September 19, 1844 - November 13, 1926). Wallace joined the Confederate army in 1862 and served in General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry.
Tintype of Rube and Martha Wallace, parents of Madison Monroe Wallace, who served with Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry and was captured twice, once at Fort Donelson and again at the Battle of Nashville. The Wallaces are buried at Lee's Cemetery in...
Military discharge paper for Wallace Preston, Company H, 45th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Preston, a resident of Johnson County, Kentucky, enlisted on August 25, 1863 for a period of "one year or the duration of the war."
Copy photograph of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, USA. Excoriated for his dilatory role at Shiloh, Wallace was stationed in Union Depot, now Bartlett, Tenn., later in the Civil War. Courtesy of the Bartlett Historical Society.
Broadside announcing a balloon ascension at Petersburg, Tennessee, by Juan J. Zamora, the "great Mexican balloonist and gymnast." There is an illustration of a balloon and a gymnast on the poster.
Textual document announces appearance of a Burmese nobleman in a program at Bright Hall open to both adults and children. Admission is being charged for this event.
Advertisement for a "Grand Concert" featuring "Little Blind Maud Cook." It describes the agenda of musical and literary performances and provides background on the life of Maud Cook.
Broadside advertising a demonstration of "Edison's Talking Machine or Phonograph" at a cost of 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. It claims that the machine will repeat distinctly every word spoken for years after, and that "it is not...
Advertisement for T.H. Kennedy's Tennessee Variety Store in Hazel Green, Alabama, selling dry goods, clothing, hats, shoes, notions, groceries, and provisions. The ad states all goods will be sold at bottom prices for cash or barter.
Advertisement for bottles of Dr. Christian's Bed Bug Exterminator, priced at 25 or 50 cents, guaranteed to exterminate bed bugs for 12 months. The flyer also advertises paints, oils, drugs, medicines, and Landreth's and Ferry's Garden Seeds, all...
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Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel R. Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, conveys her sorrow at his leaving home to fight for the Confederacy. She is deeply concerned for his wife and children. Beck, a teacher in Fayette...
Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, makes reference to her war work, particularly a concert she has helped organize in Macon to benefit the Southern Mothers in Memphis. She writes of...
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.
