Letter describes witnessing the execution of a man accused of spiking 26 guns at Fort Jackson outside New Orleans and enabling the "Yankeys" to capture New Orleans.
Pete and Hannah Shelton with their five children: Artie Malissa, Vicey J., Elizabeth Ibby, Bettie, and James or Brownlow. Pete Shelton's father, the donor's great grandfather, was killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre. The Shelton Laurel Massacre...
Pete Shelton (pictured here) had a father who was killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre. This picture was taken at home. The twins (babies) are Robert and Hobert. The three children are Jake, Bruce, and Macon Shelton. The two older children are...
General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
