Letter describes witnessing the execution of a man accused of spiking 26 guns at Fort Jackson outside New Orleans and enabling the "Yankeys" to capture New Orleans.
Middle-aged man in a civilian coat and vest. Joseph B. Miller was a member of Co. F, 34th Tennessee Infantry. Morse & Peaslee Photography, Nashville, Tennessee.
A young man in a suit holding 2 pistols. Huddleston served in Co. C, 13th (Dibrell's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, which was organized on August 2, 1862, in Cookeville. He was 19 years old. David was born on December 22, 1842, and he died on October...
Carte-de-visite of John Ward Gates. He was a newspaper man from Jackson, Tennessee. Gates was a member of Henderson's Scouts in Nathan Bedford Forrest's Cavalry. He was captured near Holly Springs, Mississippi, in 1864 and sent to Alton,...
Tintype of two unidentified young men, seated next to one another. Both men are dressed in jackets, ties, vests, and are wearing hats. One of the men has his arm draped casually around the other man's shoulder. He holds a cigarette in his other...
Patent issued to Stephen Rust for "Wash Board for Washing Clothes" signed by Andrew Jackson and R.B.Taney. Taney was Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court from 1836 until his death in 1864. He is principally remembered for his part in the 1857...
One order, sent from "Headquarters Left Wing Army [of] Ten[nessee]" orders that "Quartermaster's or foraging parties belonging to this command will not forage any more from this man J. Hunley, as he has no more than will support his family until...
Letter from Col. Alex J. Brown, Cos. F and S, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regts. (Brown's), CSA, to Pvt. John N. Warlick, Co. G, 55th Tenn. Vol. Inf. Regt., CSA. Both men were with the 55th on Island No. 10 and surrendered on April 7, 1862. Warlick, as an...
Copyprint of tintype of Peggy Jane Brinkley (far right) and an unidentified woman sitting in a horse-drawn buggy. Marion Houston Brinkley, Peggy Jane's son, sits on her lap. An unidentified man stands to the side with his arm resting on the buggy....
After his brother Cpl. John Abernathy, Co. K, 1st Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was injured at the Battle of Cheat Mt., W. Va., Alfred traveled to find him and bring him home. Writing from Gen. Daniel Smith Donelson's headquarters, he asked Bettie to tell...
