The gravesite of Sergeant Alvin C. York and his wife, Gracie, near Pall Mall, Tennessee. A flag is flying above the grave. Other burial plots, the grounds of the cemetery, and the surrounding landscape are pictured.
Mary Ellet Cabell, daughter of Col. Charles Ellet, who established the U.S. Ram Fleet for the Army, wrote to Col. George B. Corkhill about the heroic actions of her father and brother in the naval battles for Memphis and Vicksburg. Col. Ellet was a...