Broadsides; Fraternal organizations; Fraternal lodges; Civil rights leaders
Advertisement for "Negro History Week and Masonic History Day." The Honorable John Wesley Dobbs will speak. An image of John Wesley Dobbs is included on the broadside.
Broadsides; Death & burial; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Graves; Mothers
Nashville Banner print giving details of the death and burial of Andrew Jackson's mother. The broadside refutes the rumor that Mrs. Jackson was buried on the roadside.
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his father. Teague discusses whether or not he should purchase land. He states that if his father wants to buy the land he will furnish him sixty dollars. Teague served as a messenger with the 9th Tenn. Vol. Cav....
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his wife Sarah. Teague discusses other "boyes" from home that he has seen and how they are doing. He states that Martin Brock, with the 3rd Tenn. Regt., came as a prisoner and the other soldiers convinced him to...
Confederate veteran, John Wesley Tucker, seated with his wife, Cynthia Ann Tucker, by his side. Tucker was a captain in Frank Maney's Tennesse Light Artillery Company which was attached to Colo Heiman's Brigade. His left hand was amputated at...
Hand-colored image of John Wesley Kinzer from Columbia, Tenn. He was reportedly educated at Vanderbilt and had a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Kinzer married Nancy Taylor. His brother-in-law, John Taylor, was wounded at Shiloh.
Discharge certificate for Sgt. John Wesley McDonough, 12th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA He enrolled in the army in Feb. 1863 in Nashville and was discharged in July 1865. The sergeant was born in Alabama but lived in Pinewood, Hickman Co. He was 29 years...
Half-stock muzzle-loading percussion rifle from 1840-1870. Wallet stock, .30 caliber. It was a family-owned item from Hickman County. The owner of the gun was Sgt. John Wesley McDonough, Co. G, 12th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. He was married to Ecloy...
Certifies that J. W. [John Wesley] McDonough of Hickman County has permission to carry arms for "home defence." Issued by order of the governor (William G. Brownlow) and signed by his son, Tennessee Adj. Gen. James P. Brownlow.
Issued to J. W. [John Wesley] McDonough, 12th Tenn. Vols., USA, by Tennessee Commissioner of Registration. The document states that McDonough was honorably discharged from the army and that he is entitled to vote. Signed by J. N. Puckett. McDonough...
Crayon print of Nancy Taylor Kinzer by John L. White Photography. Nancy was reportedly educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She married John Wesley Kinzer. Her brother, John Taylor, served in the Confederate Army at Shiloh....
Loom-woven red, white, and black wool coverlet, thought to be a wedding gift for Algie Clifton Moore and Alice Epperson or William Wesley Conrad Moore and Susan Elizabeth Murfree. All were from Humphreys Co., Tenn. "Billy Moore was a trooper in the...
Pvt. Dorris, Co. K, 30th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was killed at the Battle of Franklin and is buried in the Confederate Cemetery at Carnton. He is pictured holding his diary which he kept during the war. His friend Jack Sanders retrieved Dorris from...
