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...
The official certificate of death for William Jennings Bryan. Bryan died in Dayton, Tennessee, on July 26, 1925. The stated cause of death was sudden opoplexy [sic]. The certificate gives the date, location, time and cause of death....
Tombstone of Alvin C. York with brass plaque and engraved decorations. The decorations above the plaque depict York's Congressional Medal of Honor, a rifle with bayonet attached, and an M1917 "Tommy" helmet. 35mm slide labeled "York Memorial 5."
Strickland's watercolor drawing of the Tomb (Pyramid) of Caius Cestius, showing the pyramid in the foreground. Also shown are the Roman walls, and the Porta San Paolo gates. Also in the foreground is the Protestant Cemetery. Strickland provides...
The gravesite of Sergeant Alvin C. York and his wife, Gracie, near Pall Mall, Tennessee. A flag is flying above the grave. Other burial plots, the grounds of the cemetery, and the surrounding landscape are pictured.
Pamphlet from the Shiloh Burial Association announcing the formation of a group soliciting donations to purchase 200 acres of the ground at Shiloh for the purpose of building memorials and planting an Osage orange hedge.; The pamphlet features a...
Form No. 3 offers two pages of information, both printed and handwritten, providing a record of the death and interment of a Federal soldier who died at a Federal military hospital. The document includes data from the hospital surgeon, the post...
Report of expenses incurred on account of cemeteries and exhuming and reinterring the remains of deceased Federal soldiers by Brevet Major W. A. Wainwright, Captain Assistant Quartermaster. Includes total of $50,169.95 with $14,654.33 still...
Report to Assistant Quartermaster William Alonzo Wainwright listing the names of seventeen individuals who transported the bodies of soldiers exhumed and reinterred at the Knoxville National Cemetery in December 1867. The report includes the cost...
Three separate ink design drawings contained on one piece of coated fabric that relay sectioning, framing, and elevation in depicting proposed gates and stone fencing for the Chattanooga Cemetery. Scale is 1/2 inch to 1 foot.
Advertisement dealing with iron head blocks for graves of soldiers buried in national cemeteries. Advertisement includes number of head blocks requested by location (8-12,000 for Memphis and 15-20,000 for Nashville), as well as the dimensions and...
Photograph of dedication of USS Sultana monument in Knoxville's Mount Olive Baptist Church burial ground on July 4, 1916, on the occasion of the 3rd U.S. Cavalry reunion
Photograph of James Coble's grave marker accompanied by the transcript of an article detailing Coble's death. He was a membe of the 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA. Coble was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in December...
Benjamin Ledbetter in a uniform holding a gun. Ledbetter was in Co. H, 25th Tennessee Infantry, from Overton County. He was wounded at the Battle of Murfreesboro on December 31, 1862. He died on January 1, 1863. Burial place is unknown.
"Funeral Is Held for James G. Moss - Funeral services for James G. Moss were to be held Friday afternoon from the Oklahoma Confederate home by Rev. George W. Lewis. Burial at Rose Hill will be directed by the Bettes funeral home. Ross was 80 years...
Printed form listing stores transferred to Lieutenant Abram Pelham, 13th Michigan Infantry, on June 17, 1864, at Tullahoma, Tennessee. "Received, Nashville, June 17, 1864 of Wainwright, Nashville, the following list of Quartermaster Stores: 25...
One-page printed Form No. 43, folded and printed on both sides, listing articles lost or destroyed in the public service at Fayetteville, Tennessee, in possession and charge of W. T. Robinson, 1st Lieutenant, Company K, 5th Tennessee Cavalry...
Letter from Mrs. S. F. O'Guin to her brother, J. A. Coble, concerning the death of their father, James Coble, during the Civil War. James Coble, 10th Tenn. Cav. (Forrest's) Regt., CSA, was the sole casualty in a skirmish near Jackson, Tenn., in...
