Excerpts from a diary, 1834-1865, and memoir of early life, written by Jesse Cox (1793-1879), a Primitive Baptist minister and resident of Williamson County, Tennessee. He describes the hardships of life as an itinerant preacher, some religious...
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...
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...
Two-page letter from J. W. Maybin of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to John S. Brien. The letter requests legal advice from John S. Brien, "one of the first legal minds in the United States," regarding his legal options after having seen much of his...
Correspondence; Fathers; Children; Abolitionists; Civil Wars; War
Correspondence from John G. Latta of Boston to his father, John Latta, of Dyersburg, Tennessee. In this four-page letter, he states that if Tennessee secedes, "the only channel of communication now left will be closed, and we cannot commicate with...
A piece torn from a black and white two-sided propaganda leaflet conveys the surrender of a Viet-Cong soldier on the front with text and leaflet number (246-131-68) on the reverse.
Drawing of the agricultural school known as Franklin College illustrates the buildings present and the lay-out of the campus. From the book, "Franklin College and Its Influences," by James E. Scobey.
Advertisement for lecture and demonstrations by Dr. J. M. Trotter, President of the Virginia Emigration and Manufacturing Association, on a plan to buy land and form joint stock companies in order to build factories in the southern United States....
Advertisement for the estate sale of the late D. W. Clark by the executor of his estate, Lucy G. Clark. These items are listed for sale: one mare, one mule, one gold watch, library case, bureau, wash stand, rockaway and harness, center table,...
Broadside advertising a Lecture on "The Present Physical Condition of the Internal Parts of the Earth" and a recitation of "Collins' Ode on the Passions," for the puropse of raising funds for the purchase of an "apparatus" by the friends of Fayette...
Centennial celebrations; Public speaking; Exhibitions; Souvenirs
Three-page souvenir transcript of an address by J.W. Thomas, President of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, delivered at the opening of the exposition on May 1, 1897. Thomas proclaimed that the event was to celebrate the state's past and...
Maps; Forts & fortifications; Batteries (Weaponry); Artillery (Weaponry); Cities & towns; Islands; Wetlands; Plantations; Rivers; Bodies of water; Military camps
This military map was hand-drawn on linen by Albert Martin around 1861 and stretches along the Mississippi River from Ashport in the north to Memphis in the south. Though detailed in its presentation of waterways, swamps, bluffs, plantations,...
This page has a playing card, a Jack of Spades, pasted on it. Next to the card, Mitchener has written, "#11" and "Thus passed Christmas -- As typical as barbed wire -- The cutting of cards designates selection of Kriege present."
Two-page letter from Elisha W. Harris to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville. He writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of the war being upon them with bloody consequence. He has abandoned his efforts to cling to the union and...
Five-page letter written from John S. Brien in Nashville, Tennessee, to R. M. C[ornin], Esq. in Cincinnati, Ohio. The author expresses his views on secession, the Union, and Southern Rights as well as his hope for compromise. Says Brien, " I...
Correspondence; Cities & towns; Campaigns & battles; Troop movements; Surrenders; Military retreats; Generals; Civil Wars; War
A three-page letter dated February 28, 1862, from John S. Brien to John C. Crittenden. Brien rejoices that Buell's troops "occupied the city and country without the necessity of shedding one drop of blood." He argues that property rights must be...
Letter from Thomas Crutchfield Jr. to James R. Hood. Crutchfield makes an effort to prove his loyalty to the Union by recounting his opposition to secession, his informing the Federals of troop movements, his supplying of the Union army with...
