Three-page letter describes a plane crash on Vung Chua that killed eight South Korean officers. (The plane, still visible on the mountain, and a nearby monument are pictured in Ammons's photos.) No one knows why the plane was so far from the Qui...
Three-quarter legth tintype of Frederick Claybrooke. It is set in a hinged oval case. The text states that he was killed at Hoover's Gap while leading his regiment into battle.
Three-quarter length portrait of Colonel Frank N. McNairy in Confederate uniform. His right hand rests on the hilt of a sword and in his left he holds a slouch hat at his hip. Written beneath the image is, "Killed at the second battle of Fort...
Tintype of John W. Weakley. John Wilie Weakley was the son of John Coffee and Clara Nancy (Lamb) Weakley. He was born on December 14, 1841, and was killed on June 9, 1862.
Tintype of John Wilie Weakley (December 14, 1841-June 9, 1862). Weakley was the son of John Coffee and Clara Nancy Lamb Weakley. He was killed during the Civil War.
Two pages of testimony by Lavinia Goodell, a black woman whose husband was killed duruing the 1866 race riots in Memphis (Tenn.). The testimony was presented to a U. S. congressional committee appointed to investigate the cause of the riots.
Two young brothers from Pulaski, Tennessee. Dressed in black uniforms and holding hands with their arms around their shoulders. Leonidas is on the left and Buckner is on the right. Buckner was killed in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Leonidas...
Two-page handwritten letter from Ammons to his family telling of his assignment to the 1st Infantry Division in Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry. He describes sewing on his division patch and the stripes that represent his PFC E-3 rank. He...
Washington County, New York General Affidavit in the matter of a pension claim of Amos P. Ingrohaus stating that his son, John H. Ingrohaus, was not killed in the Battle of Fair Oaks. John Ingrohaus was a member of Company l, 96th Regiment N. Y....
William Addison Abernathy, C. S. A., seated in uniform, gun in hand. Abernathy was killed in battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. On the back "Mammy's brother. See General Vaughn's book in my cedar chest." is written.
William Preston McNabb (born 1845) was killed in late part of 1864. Brothers were in Co. E, 9th Cav. Regt., USA, under command of Col. James Patton Brownlow.
