Return of provisions received, issued, and remaining on hand In the Field during the month of December 1862 by Lieutenant William A. Wainwright. Items listed include: pork, bacon, ham, salt beef, fresh beef, beef cattle, flour, hard bread, beans,...
Round Louisiana (CSA) uniform button embossed with a bird representing "Pelican in her Piety." The button was found with a metal detector in Tullahoma. A "Pelican in Her Piety" was featured on the unofficial Civil War-era Louisiana state flag. A...
This 3-page typed list of soldiers in "Company E, Forest's Cavalry" is on stationery from the Farmers Bank of Beech Grove, Tennessee. The men from Coffee, Bedford, and Rutherford counties served in Co. E, 4th (Starnes') Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA.
This form records the enlistment of farmer Elie Nelson in Nashville on December 1, 1862. He is examined by a lieutenant in the 1st Regiment Middle Tennessee Volunteers. Nelson makes his mark to sign both his oath and the declaration of...
This item was used during the Civil War by John B. W. Bond who was a member of Co. A, 35th Tenn. Inf. (5th Tenn. Regt., Prov. Army Mountain Rifle Regt.), CSA. The item is a combination spoon/fork utensil, and may have been used in the Shelton's...
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of the food closet. A number of cups are hanging from the wall, and a pitcher is on the floor. Mitchener writes, "As you enter the room - life's sustinence (sic) compartment...The...
This page is a poem or list of things that Mitchener misses and craves during his imprisonment in a POW camp in Germany. He has then included a small poem that reads,"I have loved those things/Gentle living our country gave/You'll find them where...
Tintype of John W. Weakley. John Wilie Weakley was the son of John Coffee and Clara Nancy (Lamb) Weakley. He was born on December 14, 1841, and was killed on June 9, 1862.
Tintype of John Wilie Weakley (December 14, 1841-June 9, 1862). Weakley was the son of John Coffee and Clara Nancy Lamb Weakley. He was killed during the Civil War.
Tintype of Sgt. Rufus Daniel Lawson. He was from Bedford County, Tenn., or Vermont, but he was raised in Bedford County. He died of smallpox in Nashville at the end of the war on March 31, 1865. A pension record from October 1865, was filed by his...
Country life; Baseballs; Women; Sewing; Fireplaces; Home labor; Dogs; Cats; Poultry; Porches; Swings; Baseballs
Two farm women sit beside a fireplace sewing covers on baseballs as two children play with kittens on the floor. Background features a young man sitting on a porch swing and playing with a dog.