Saber from Nashville Plow Works. Confederate copy of 1840 U. S. saber which is itself a copy of a French saber. The saber has "C. S. A." as a part of the casting and has the original scabbard.
Violin belonged to Union soldier, William B. Morgan, Company B, 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. Morgan was from Morgan Springs, Tennessee (Rhea County).
Copy print of Lieutenant Colonel John C. Shackleford, Company G, Peter Turney's First Tennessee Regiment. Shackleford has a mustache and full beard. He is wearing wool uniform and cap. He was killed at Gaines Mill, Virginia.
Military discharge for Corporal George W. Henderson, Company E, 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A copy of a photograph of Henderson is attached to the top left corner of the certificate. Henderson, born in Christian County, Kentucky,...
Published copy, General Order No. 40, Headquarters, Dept. of Mississippi, Vicksburg, April 28, 1865, on the death of President Lincoln. General Order No. 66, April 16, 1865, announces the "untimely and lamentable death" of the President, and is...
Engraved reproduction of Julio's "Last Meeting of Lee and Jackson." General Robert E. Lee and General Stonewall Jackson each seated on horseback side by side with three officers also on horseback behind them. It is a copy of the artist's rendering...
Photograph (copy) taken four months after previous photograph (wash004) of Capt. Aaron Gamble McReynolds, USA, shows the effect of the hardships of war. (This copy accompanies wash001, wash002, wash003.)
Copy engraving depicts "Forrest's Raiders Attacking Irvin[g] Prison" on August 22, 1864. Taken from a September 10, 1864, Harper's Weekly, sketched by George H. Ellsbury. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's cavalry carried out a daring daytime raid on...
Copy photograph of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace, USA. Excoriated for his dilatory role at Shiloh, Wallace was stationed in Union Depot, now Bartlett, Tenn., later in the Civil War. Courtesy of the Bartlett Historical Society.
Shadowbox dedicated to Sgt. George Singleton, Co. C, 17th Regt., U.S. Colored Infantry. It includes a copy of a photograph, information about George Singleton, a copy of his muster roll, and two notes of Union currency.
Copy of a model 1860 light cavalry saber and scabbard, found in the vicinity of Thompson Creek and Shipman Creek, southeast Bedford Co., while quail hunting.
