Orders signed by Colonel William B. Bate permitting William Ferguson and John Branham of the Walker Legion (2nd Tennessee Infantry) to pass through the country, keeping out of sight of the river, for the purpose of preparing a map of certain...
This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...
Excerpts from the diary of William Luther Bigelow Lawrence. He details joining the Nashville Guards, the scarcity of provisions, and the surrender of Nashville. He proclaims the trampling of private rights by Federal soldiers, the fleeing of his...
Oval bust length portrait of Col. Jno. C. Crane, Inspector of Quarter Master's Department, in uniform. The portrait is signed, "Respectfully your [illegible], Jno. C. Crane, Col. Inspector Quartermaster Department. January 1, 1865." "James F....
Unfinished forage house in Nashville, Tennessee, with a group of officers of the Quartermaster Department. An inscription beneath the photograph reads, "Forage House on N. and NW. RR. Nashville, Tenn. - DIMENSIONS. 1st Sec 904 by 156 ft wide; 2d...
Three items: envelope with notation by 1st Lieutenant W. T. Robinson, "To file away for Safe Keeping for future reference should it be necessary;" Circular No. 52 -- Series of 1863 entitled "Invoice of Ordnance and Ordance Stores."