Two-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...
Cross dressing; Escapes; Firearms; Tents; Horses; Soldiers; Women; Sheet music covers; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate President Jeff Davis is pictured fleeing (in a crinoline dress) from an army camp, holding a dagger as a bonnet flies off his head. A soldier aims at gun at him and a woman in a dress appears to be in distress. Words by George Cooper....
Cased ambrotype of Samuel A. Whiteside, Co. B, 48th Tenn. Inf. (Voorhies') Regt., CSA. Whiteside, a native of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., was captured at Fort Donelson and sent to Johnson's Island Prison (Ohio). He was paroled, returned to his unit, and...
Letter from Titus Rodgers to his mother. He tells her that he is well and his company has been twelve days on the march. Titus enlisted in Chicago with his brother Oliver. Family lore states that he was on Gen. Grant's staff. He is said to have...
Photograph of Brig. Gen. Alfred Eugene Jackson, the only Confederate general from Washington County, Tenn. As military commander of Greeneville, Tenn., he saved Andrew Johnson's home. In 1863, he fought at the Battle of Limestone Station, Tenn....
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...
Audio excerpt of Carlock Stookesbury oral history recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. He discusses his wife's wintertime quilting. He mentions that she hangs the quilts from the ceiling over the bed. He also talks...
Barbed wire; Ships; Military personnel; Prisoners; Public speaking
This page in Mitchener's diary includes a drawing of an old ship, the "Santa Maria," on which he has written, "Promise of the Future." Underneath, he has drawn a picture of a prisoner on stage, Colonel Darr H. Alkire, C.O. Stalag Luft III, West...
John Travis Harrison, born August 31, 1825, in Tennessee. He enlisted in Co. F, 12th Ky. Cav. Regt., CSA, on April 10, 1864. He was killed in action at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads on June 10, 1864. He is buried at Brice's Crossroads near...
Off-center broadside print advertises the Fayetteville undertaking business of J. B. Wilson. Gives location, undertaking services, and promotes warranted furniture-making as well.
Large broadside giving details concerning the method for convicts in the state prison to use in applying for a pardon. The broadside is signed by Governor John C. Brown.
This page in Mitchener's diary from World War II includes a drawing of a group of prisoners who are passing time by playing cards. They are sitting next to a heating stove that, according to Mitchener, has a six-foot radius. He writes,"There's at...
Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife, Mary, in Maury County, Tennessee. He is concerned that his letters are not reaching her, and he observes, "What is property or anything else compared to one's...
Letter from Robert Rutledge describing a Union cavalry raid on his camp in which several men were wounded or captured and also a fight beween Harry Henry and an artilleryman in the camp. He asks about the condition of Mr. Runion, who has small pox;...
Rough sketch from John Johnston's Civil War Reminiscences of the battlefield for the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864, showing the Franklin-Columbia Pike, Federal trench, Confederate lines, and topographic features.
Hand-drawn map of the Battle of Franklin, December 17, 1864, showing major roads, towns, and waterways. Features include the positioning of the infantry line on a hill on the northwest side of the Harpeth, the site of the rally at Harpeth Creek,...
