Medical examination report for the discharge of T. H. Freeman. After examination by Jno. Gleaves, Surgeon for the 45th Tennessee Volunteers, Freeman was found "incapable of performing the duties of his office." Freeman suffered from a "protracted...
This bucket was found in a closet with a Confederate soldier's uniform. According to a family story, the buckets were issued to some Confederate soldiers at the end of the war by the Federal army. The soldiers were told to take the buckets and go...
Civil War shadowbox containing a padlock and key, scissors, eating utensils, buttons, and bullets. Some of the materials were found on Summertown Highway.
Ambrotype of unidentified woman in her twenties wearing a dark dress with lace collar, and dark lace fingerless gloves. The woman's dark hair is parted in the middle and slicked back. Her necklace and belt have been tinted with gold leaf. The...
Unidentified woman assisting a man as he makes a Nine Patch quilt. A pair of needle-nose pliers and a pair of scissors are on the table in front of the man.
Order issued by Federal 1st Lieutenant G. W. Anderdown that all in his command be prohibited from wasting ammunition, destroying fencing and garden trucks, or other depredations. The bell was to be rung for morning and night roll calls and...
Letter ordering an officer to go with a guard of one non-commissioned officer and six men in order to take charge of a passenger train on the Rome Railroad; the letter includes additional instructions. An example of the form to be kept is...
Statement makes reference to arms and ammunition damaged by wet weather during the battle with Hood at Nashville on December 15 - 18, 1864. From Company F, 7th Regiment of Quartermaster's Forces, Nashville, for the second quarter ending June 30,...
Broadside advertising a three-day fair to be staged at the Fayetteville Fairgrounds beginning October 10, 1872. This was to be the first annual fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association to be held in Fayetteville. ...
Sheet music covers; Dogs; Beaches; Graves; Shipwrecks
Blue-toned print of a dog lying on a grave at the seashore with a wrecked vessel in the shallow water just offshore. Under print: "Words and Music by Paul Dresser." Cover artist unknown.
Sheet music covers; Children; Families; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Lithograph from a photograph of three young children serves as the centerpiece of the cover of a Civil War-era song, dedicated by the author, James G. Clark, to J. Francis Bourns M.D. of Philadelphia, Pa.
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of a Roman tower of the 12th Century. The sketch includes a detail of the corner of the tower. Strickland provides a description of a typical Roman tower.
This document is a nine page, unnumbered handwritten document found in "Acts of the Southwest Territory." It is dated July 11, 1795, and signed by Governor William Blount and Joseph Hardin.
23 pages handwritten in ink that comprise the Cherokee Constitution of 1827. This early copy may have been written by Sam Houston. It was found in the 1827 Tennessee legislative papers and may have been given to the State of Tennessee in exchange...
The document is a six page, unnumbered handwritten document found in the "Acts of the Southwest Territory." It is dated September 27, 1794 and signed by Governor William Blount and Secretary David Wilson.
