Leather saddle bags used by Dr. John H. Buford who served in Confederate cavalry and was involved in battles at Forts Henry and Donelson. He was later a doctor in the Lesbia community in Stewart County.
Non-military bag that could have been used during the Civil War and hooked onto a horse's saddle. The item was carried by Jackson Green from Luther, Hancock County, Tennessee. He was in Co. B, 1st Regt., Tenn. Vol. Cav., USA. Some of the bag is...
This McClellan-style saddle belonged to Roby Brown, of Johnson County, Tenn., according to the donor. Capt. Barton Roby Brown recruited the only regular CSA unit from Johnson County, originally Co. F, 7th N.C. Cav. Regt., CSA, later Co. A, 6th N.C....
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...
Letter from Jane Smith Washington of Springfield, Tennessee, to her son, William L. Washington in Toronto, Canada, describing a confrontation with Federal troops. Mrs. Washington describes an extremely violent confrontation with Federal troops. In...
Order from the Federal Quartermaster at Nashville sending soap, axes, spades, shovels, picks, horseshoes, nails, bridge bolts, saddles, boots, infantry trousers, stockings, blouses, grey flannel shirts, and saddle blankets to Tullahoma, Estill...
