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Certificate issued by Judge Advocate Gray certifying that Lieutenant Colonel John E. McGowan was in attendance of the General Courts-martial from June 14 to July 26, 1865, in accordance with Special Order No. 127.
Certificate of discharge from the Army of Tennessee for David A. Hickerson, a private in Captain James H. Lewis's Company C, 2nd Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry. At the time of discharge, he was 26 years old, 6 feet 1 inch tall, fair complexion, gray...
Circular letter permitting resumption of shipments except for arms, ammunition, and related items into Tennessee. The letter is signed by Secretary of the Treasury H. McCulloch.
Clipping from an unnamed newspaper recounting a reunion held at the Battle of Franklin. "The surviving remnants of the Blue and the Gray met yesterday, in comradeship and the bonds of brotherhood, on the most desperate field that their enmity...
Civil wars; Military officers; Generals; Peace; Surrenders; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Cover depicts Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Robert E. Lee, in uniform, shaking hands, with the slogan "Let us have peace" printed above them. The remains of the battlefield are shown on the ground around them, including cannon, flags, and a drum.
Depository receipt for $600 in Confederate bonds or stock purchased by R. C. Gray at Knoxville Depositories Office. The receipt was signed by J. G. M. Ramsey, Depository.
Discharge certificate for Pvt. Benjamin S. Miles, Co. C, 141st Regt. Ohio National Guard (Captain F. H. Gray's Company). Miles enrolled on May 2, 1864, and was discharged from the service on September 3, 1864, at Gallipolis, Oh. He was 23 years old...
Discharge papers for Pvt. John H. Brutzman, Co. D (Prowell's), 202nd Pa. Inf. Regt., USA. The paper describes Brutzman as 29 years of age, 6 feet tall, fair complexion and gray eyes. He was discharged at Cumberland, Md., on August 3, 1865.
Sheet music covers; Flags; Horses; Patriotism; Eagles; Capitols
Features a color engraving of the U.S. Capitol; two men on horseback look at the building from afar. An oval gold chain, in which each state is represented by a link, is superimposed on an arch with gray Doric columns. Above capitol: "In Union's...
Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee; African Americans - Tennessee
Front and side views of the Hohenwald Colored School in Lewis County. Originally a church, the school has a bell tower, three long windows, and a front door.
John George Herman born in 1841 in Wartenburg, Germany. He became a U.S. resident in 1855. Herman fought as a private under Captain John J. Ball in Co. G, 127th Pa. Regt., USA. He enlisted in Virginia in 1862 and served for 9 months. He was...
Order from the Federal Quartermaster at Nashville sending soap, axes, spades, shovels, picks, horseshoes, nails, bridge bolts, saddles, boots, infantry trousers, stockings, blouses, grey flannel shirts, and saddle blankets to Tullahoma, Estill...
Photograph of Tillman Gray. He enlisted with the Confederates in Co. B, 42nd Tenn. Inf. Regt. Gray was captured at Fort Donelson on February 16, 1862. He taken to Camp Douglas, Ill., and later sent to Vicksburg, Miss. Gray was wounded at the Battle...
Tintype of Albert Haws Gray and Florinda Bell Gray in a case with an ambrotype of an unidentified soldier (possibly their son?). The Grays migrated from Indiana to Mississippi County, Missouri.
