Photograph of Confederate veteran, Jesse Armistead Short in uniform and hat. Short is standing with one hand resting on a round side table. A Southern Cross pin adorns his jacket.
Photograph of Thomas Larkin Harris, CSA, seated in uniform, holding a shotgun. Harris is holding his hat and has a pistol tucked into his belt. Harris, born in 1829 in Carroll County, served in Co. F, 12th Con. Tenn. Inf., CSA. He was killed at the...
Reproduction full-length portrait of James Hoots Call wearing double-breasted frock coat and campaign hat. Because of an arm wound sustained at Shiloh, he was discharged from service in June 1862 at age 35. Family lore states that Call carried a...
Elderly Civil War veteran, William A. Newell, 99th Ohio Vol. Inf. Regt., USA, sitting in a rocking chair on his porch. His legs are crossed and his hat rests on his knee.
Henry Clay Treadway standing outside with hat in hand at Barwick Plantation, home of his older brother, Richard Caldwell Treadway, and nephew, Major Andrew Treadway. Henry Clay Treadway fought in the Battle of Gettysburg and was captured and taken...
Long is writing "few lines which will bring sorrow and grief upon you and family the death of your Dear Companion J. E. Scott." He tells Mrs. Scott that her husband died on April 6 in an Atlanta hosspital. Long goes on to say that he is sending the...
James (Jimmy) Hammond wearing slouch hat and holding a flintlock musket converted to percussion. Hammond was born September 23, 1841, in Gibson County, Tenn. He was the son of John K. and Elizabeth Boyd Hammond. According to family legend, Jimmy...
Harris served as 1st Lt., Co. A, 12th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, also known as the Newbern Blues, under Col. Tyree Bell of Dyer County. He also served as Adjutant for Col. Robert Russell. Information on the back of the photograph identifies this as a...
Beechland in Cages Bend, near Gallatin, Tennessee. The white-sided home is partially obscured by trees. A white fence runs the length of the photograph. Polly Shute, the nurse, stands with her hands on her hips. Two young girls, Janie and Emma,...
Tintype of an unidentified Union infantry soldier. He is wearing a Hardee hat with an infantry bugle on it and issued infantry frock coat (full regulation uniform).
Three men stand inside a cave; a dilapidated wooden pen can be seen in front of the cave opening. Two of the men appear to be producer Jesse Lasky and his son. The third man, whose identity is not given, appears to be wearing a hat.
Letter from Robert A. Rutledge to Mary Minerva Rutledge concerning the climate and his living conditions, provisions, and financial situation. He attempts to dissuade his father from visiting him at the camp but expresses his weariness of the war...
Cover depicts a couple dressed in Edwardian finery walking from a confectionery. Both are wearing gloves and he is carrying a cane and she is holding his arm. She has on a large hat with a feather surrounding it and a feather boa around her neck....
