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...
"Dear Sir. There is woman in town who says that Polk Pain told the day you got him that there was to be a raid on this place and that ten of the boys belonging to your company was ready to go with them when they came and that they was to capture as...
Military-issued brass powder flask with stopper. Probably 1830s-1840s, possibly Mexican War era. Continued to be made up to the 1850s. They started using these flasks when Mississippi Rifles came into use around time of the War of 1812. Flask was...
The church is pictured on the left. A cotton factory is also pictured on the middle right area of the picture, near the smokestack. Pinewood Mansion is on the right. On the left is the cotton gin; brick was also manufactured at Pinewood. The...
Letter from John A. Hickerson, Company B, 2nd Arkansas Infantry, C. S. A., to his father John D. Hickerson. The letter is the first he wrote to his father after enlisting. The author describes his movements from Arkansas to Knoxville and back. The...
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the columns in the cloister of Basilica de S. Giovanni in Laterano. The sketch shows an unfinished drawing and next to it a finished sketch. Strickland gives a handwritten description of the columns.
Broadside featuring sketched portraits of the Republican candidates by John Doctoroff, with 1928 copyright. Trades Council Union Label over oval Allied Printing , St. Louis, Mo.
Front view of the building on Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, used by Andrew Jackson as headquarters during the campaign against the British in the War of 1812.
Capitols; Soldiers; Guards; Forts & fortifications; Military camps; Railroads; Cannons; Spectators; Public sculpture; Architecture; Lampposts
Image presents the juxtaposition of the beautiful architectutral features and sculpture exhibited in the east, or main fascade of the Tennesseee State Capitol Building with the surrounding heavy Federal stockades, fortifications, and general...
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This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
Two-page letter from Arthur H. Harris of Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes of his recruiting expedition and his rifle company, of recruits hankering for action, of George's desire for a chaplaincy, and...
Five-page letter written from John S. Brien in Nashville, Tennessee, to R. M. C[ornin], Esq. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The author expresses his views on secession, the Union, and Southern Rights as well as his hope for compromise. Says Brien, " I...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel R. Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, conveys her sorrow at his leaving home to fight for the Confederacy. She is deeply concerned for his wife and children. Beck, a teacher in Fayette...
