White-bearded stout man wearing captain's hat and sitting in a chair on the Texas deck of the steamboat "City of Memphis". The Texas Deck, a long and narrow cabin for officers, was located on a raised section over the skylights of a steamboat....
The "City of Memphis" is moored at the shore while cargo is loaded on board via a boom gangplank. Several well dressed men and women seem to be waiting to board. The tall stacks are belching black smoke in preparation for moving. Individuals are...
Letter from Joseph Gerald Branch in Davis Lake Plantation, Arkansas, to his wife, Mary, in Maury County, Tennessee. He is concerned that his letters are not reaching her, and he observes, "What is property or anything else compared to one's...
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...
Two-page handwritten letter by Christopher Ammons to his family describing the casualties his company sustained while on their most recent search-and-destroy mission from Dong Tam Base Camp.
Pvt. James W. Siler, Co. B, 33rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, was from Hardeman County, Tenn. He served as a teamster, the company wagon driver, and fought at Shiloh. Siler was captured twice and sent to Alton Prison, Ill. Harsh conditions there resulted...
Contract between Castor Sawyer of Williamson County (Tenn.) and Freeman Green in which Sawyer agreed to furnish land to Green for cultivation while Green is obligated to give Sawyer one-third of his agricultural output.
