Black and white profile photograph of Joseph Baldwin Taft, Lt. Col., 143 New York. Born August 9, 1838. Died on November 25, 1863 at the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Battle of Chattanooga. Buried at Chattanooga's National Cemetery. Photogropher was...
Wax drawing of Union veteran, Newton Worth Narramore, Company E, 6th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Narramore was from Bledsoe County and is buried at Chapel Hill Cemetery, Dunlap, Tennessee.
A Bible belonging to Richard Moore Young. Young was born on April 1, 1842, in Putnam County, Tennessee. He served in the 28th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., of Putnam County. His family gave him the Bible when he left and he carried it...
Black and white photograph of Lard & Nancy (Copeland) Hammock. Lard Hammock was in Company E, 8th Tennessee Cavalry (13th), from Overton County. He was captured near Woodbury, Tennessee, on September 6, 1864, at the Battle of Readyville. He was...
A young man in a suit holding 2 pistols. Huddleston served in Co. C, 13th (Dibrell's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, which was organized on August 2, 1862, in Cookeville. He was 19 years old. David was born on December 22, 1842, and he died on October...
Carte de visite of Spicer Canady from Auglaize County, Ohio. He was killed in action at Shiloh, Tenn., on April 2, 1862. Canady is buried in the military cemetery at Shiloh.
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...
Painting of Jefferson Davis giving Joseph Patton a silver dollar on retreat from Richmond. The scene is fictional. Mr. Patton was a resident of Hamsphire, Tennessee, and is buried at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. Artist was Mildred Hartsfield.
Inventory of the effects of Enos Thompson, Private, Co. D, 4th US Cavalry. Died March 15, 1863 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, following the Battle of Stones River. Includes physical description of soldier. Thompson is buried at the Stone River...
Quilt that was buried in the side of Clinch Mountatin during the Civil War. It is hand-quilted and hand-appliqued, by appliqueing pieces on a solid piece of fabric.
John H. and Granville Grogan images. The two images are framed together in a single frame. John H. and Granville Grogan were brothers who served in the 7th Tenn. Cav. Regt, USA. They were home on furlough in West Tennessee when they were...
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...
Cabinet card image of Confederate veteran Isaac A. Shoun (1843-1923), seated on a wooden bench. Shoun was a sergeant in the 13th Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA. He would have been around 67 years old at the time the photograph was taken. Shoun is buried at...
Silver spoon that belonged to the Thornton family of Barnesville, Georgia. According to family legend, the spoon was part of a set that was buried to prevent Gen. Sherman and his troops from taking it. The silver was distributed among family...
Certificate of service for Pvt. William Jackson, Co. B, 1st Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. Jackson enlisted on April 9, 1862. He was discharged from service on April 10, 1865, in Nashville, Tenn. He died in 1910 and is buried at Dry Valley Cemetery in...
Lead crystal bottles that were buried when the Federal forces arrived near Early Grove, Mississippi, located on the Tennessee - Mississippi border below Moscow, Tennessee.
Photographic reprint of Capt. A. Cecil Dale, CSA. Dale was from Celina, Tenn. (near present-day Dale Hollow Dam area). He fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain where he was captured. He was imprisoned at Atlanta until the end of the...
Copyprint of George Hampton, Co. G., 16th US Colored Inf. Regt. Hampton was born in Warren Co., Ky. He mustered in at Clarksville, Tenn., February 16, 1864 and attained the rank of sergeant in October 1865. He died December 28, 1908, and is buried...
