Small tintype in octagonal gutta-percha case. Both her husband, James Knox Moore, and father, Stephen Richardson Moore, were Confederate soldiers. Miller is wearing a white dress and is seated.
After his brother Cpl. John Abernathy, Co. K, 1st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was injured at the Battle of Cheat Mt., W. Va., Alfred traveled to find him and bring him home. Writing from Gen. Daniel Smith Donelson's headquarters, he asked Bettie to tell...
Copy print of Confederate veteran, Capt. Robert Laird Evans, Co. I, 53rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, seated with his wife, Delilah Angus Evans, three unidentified women, and one child. Evans was taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and sent to Johnson's...
Letter written by Robert Laird Evans, Co. I, 53rd Tenn. Inf., Regt., CSA, to his wife, Delilah Angus Evans after his capture at Fort Donelson. Evans was taken prisoner and sent to Johnson's Island Prison (Ohio). He speaks of being treated well,...
Copy of a portrait of Delilah Angus Evans holding an infant. Evans was the wife of Capt. Robert Laird Evans, Co. I, 53rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Family lore says that Evans carried the original portrait in the breast pocket of his coat during the...
Abner Arnold served in the 1st Ark. Cav. Regt., CSA, and resided in Trenton, Tenn. He filed for Soldier's Pension S11223 and his wife, Ellie, for Widow's Pension W6155.
Henry and Emma James were the younger siblings of Francis (Frank) W. James, a doctor in Rutherford, Tennessee. Aged seventeen and nine, Henry and Emma lived in Bluff Springs in Gibson County, Tennessee. Henry writes about the corn and cotton crops,...
From Mrs. Angus William McDonald to the wife of Union General David Stroffer, seeking the release of her husband from prison. Stroffer and Angus McDonald were friends in Winchester.
Letter to Nancy Susan Clack from her husband Spencer Clack written from Fort Rice, Dakota Territory. Transcription included. Spencer Clack was in Company B, 1st U.S. Volunteer Regiment.
Copyprint of Civil War Veteran John Patterson Allison with his wife and daughter. Patterson was born on October 22, 1844, in Saltville, Virginia and died August 2, 1912, in Saltville. He was buried in the Elizabeth Cemetery. He enlisted on May 6,...
Audio excerpt of Carlock Stookesbury oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses his wife's wintertime quilting. He mentions that she hangs the quilts from the ceiling over the bed. He also talks...
Audio excerpt of Jewel Allen oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses how his wife learned to quilt from her family and how he began quilting himself. People have offered to buy his quilts, but he...
Communication from Mrs. E. M. Hayes, wife of the late Oliver B. Hayes, listing thirteen line items including two mares, eighty-four head of sheep, five milk cows, and fifty-five hogs, total value of $3,142.00 dollars, that she claims were pressed...
Special weekly report of transportation for week ending September 30, 1865, by William Alonzo Wainwright Assistant Quartermaster, Department of Tennessee, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Persons listed on form include: Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Polk...
Sheet music covers; Fictitious characters; Laundry; Weather; Clotheslines
Drawing of an angry-looking man in dressing gown and cap, with glasses perched on his forehead. He appears in the clouds above a clothesline holding laundry. On the ground are baskets, pails, an iron, and scrubbing brushes.
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