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  • Union shell
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    Union Schenkl 12-lb. shell dug at Stones River Battlefield in 1984
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Trenches, mine craters, and shell holes
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    War; World War, 1914-1918; War destruction & pillage; Craters; Campaigns & battles; Forts & fortifications
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    The caption reads, "Trenches, mine craters, and shell holes." The photograph was taken at Vauquois Hill in the Meuse-Argonne sector of France. The photograph has a desolate,"moonscape" quality to it.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Tintype of unidentified Union soldier
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    Cased tintype with "halo" effect from oxidation. Probably Union infantryman, in kepi and uniform (shell jacket).
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • The Confederate's Return from "Disbanding the Confederate Army"
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    Soldiers; Military Uniforms; Houses; Trees; Fences
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    Illustration by George Varian of a Confederate soldier leaning against a fence post gazing at a destroyed house. The caption underneath reads "The Confederate's Return - There was only the shell of the house." The image appears on page 537 of Ida...
  • War and Reunion - The Lost Cause in Southern Memory
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  • Shenkel artillery shell fragment
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    Union Shenkel artillery shell fragment found at Hoover's Gap in Beech Grove, Tenn. Iron conical shell with hole at top with screw-on cap.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Shell holes near Chateau-Thierry
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    Artillery; World War, 1914-1918; Battlefields
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    Photograph taken from a height showing numerous holes on a battlefield caused by artillery shells.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Shell fragment
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    Large shell fragment, part of a 12-pounder, dug up in Dover, Tennessee near the National Cemetery.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Shell casings
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    Shell casings
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Shell
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    Shell dug at Parkers Crossroads Battlefield in Henderson County, Tennessee.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Remnant of Hotchkiss shell
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    Base of 3-inch Hotchkiss shell found near Battlefield Drive and Granny White Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Quilting party in front of of the Shell house
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    Quilting bees; Yards; Women; Houses; Children
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    Quilting party in the front yard of the Shell house, Cherokee Community. Edna Richardson is seated in the front and Marie Taylor Harvey is standing in the extreme back. Various unidentified women and children are also shown.
  • Quilts
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  • Prisoner's Prayer
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    Poetry; Barbed wire; Prayer
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    This page is a poem,"Prisoner's Prayer." Mitchener notes that it was memorized by a POW from scratchings on the wall in a Vienna transition camp. The poem asks for God's protection for airmen facing "shell, flak, fire, and foe." He writes, in part,...
  • Hardy A. Mitchener, Jr. Journal
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  • Pocket watch
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    Pocket watch with chain and shell. "M.T. Tobia Liverpool Patton Levne full Jeweled" engraved on the inside. Manufacture number 406189. Image of soldiers engraved on the back. Owner's name was Minos Seborn Vise.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Nannie E. Haskins Diary Excerpts
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    Teenagers; Girls; Civil Wars; War; Battlefields; Rebellions; Campaigns & battles; Cities & towns; Villages
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    Excerpts from a small handwritten diary written by Nannie Haskins, a young girl of Clarksville, Tennessee. Provides an insight into the day to day activities of an observant young girl. Haskins was strongly in support of the Confederacy and loathed...
  • Civilian Life in the Civil War
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  • Letter from Edwin Maxwell to Mary Cornelia
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    Letter from Edwin W. R. Maxwell (May 16, 1805 - August 15, 1873) to his daughter, Cornelia, on June 7, 1863, regarding her previous letter and being wounded by a shell on his right leg on May 14, 1863.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Hotchkiss shell
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    Hotchkiss shell found at Liberty Gap (between Bell Buckle and Christiana, Tenn.).
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Hotchkiss shell
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    5.3-inch Hotchkiss shell.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • Hotchkiss artillery shell
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    Hotchkiss artillery shell found in Bean Station, Tenn.
  • Looking Back - The Civil War in Tennessee
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  • French tanks going into line
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    Tanks (Military science); Tracklaying vehicles; Motorcycles; War damage; World War, 1914-1918
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    A number of tanks headed down a road and accompanied by several soldiers on foot and one on a motorcycle. The scarred terrain appears in the background of the shot.
  • Tennessee in World War I
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  • Dyer artillery shell
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    Dyer artillery shell recovered from the Potomac River, possibly fired from the Maryland side during the Battle of Antietam.
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