Silver and glass relish dish and tongs from the family of Richard England. The silver is plated with designs and the glass is engraved with a woman and cherub. "Middletown plate" is engraved on the bottom of the silver plate. Family legend states...
Silver spoon that belonged to the Thornton family of Barnesville, Georgia. According to family legend, the spoon was part of a set that was buried to prevent Gen. Sherman and his troops from taking it. The silver was distributed among family...
Painting of Jefferson Davis giving Joseph Patton a silver dollar on retreat from Richmond. The scene is fictional. Mr. Patton was a resident of Hamsphire, Tennessee, and is buried at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. Artist was Mildred Hartsfield.
Silver platter, dated December 25, 1870. It was given to the Reverend Richard Riley Evans (1818-1903) by Germantown (Shelby County) Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Evans saved the church building from being burned during the Civil War. It is said...
Silver goblet, dated February 14, 1862. It was given to the Reverend Richard Riley Evans (1818-1903) by Germantown (Shelby County) Presbyterian Church. The Reverend Evans saved the church building from being burned during the Civil War. It is said...
Silver spoons manufacturered in North Carolina by the silversmiths John C. Palmer and Walter Ramsey, 1847-1855. The initials "DND" are incribed for David Nichols Dalton.
Elgin watch, serial number 614094. The coin silver case was manufactured by Dueber. The watch belonged to the Reverend Marcus Bearden DeWitt, 8th Tennessee Infantry. DeWitt fought at Chickamauga.
Silver goblet presented to Eliza H. (Hudson) Ward from her mother on the occasion of her birthday. Inscription reads, "Eliza H. Ward, from Mother--10th Feb. 1864." The family lived in Nashville during the war.
Inscribed silver ladle, a wedding gift to Jane Seay McKay and Felix McKay. Family legend states that the ladle was hidden and saved during the Yankee raid.
This page is blank except for a drawing of a military tank that has been cut out from another sheet of paper and placed in the diary. Underneath the tank, Mitchener has written, "From the West" and "Lt. Hardy A. Mitchener." In addition to the...
Article from unidentified newspaper is entitled "Wedding Bells for Sergt. York" and written by R. G. Fields. It describes the bride, "seventeen," her father, "A. F. Williams, former circuit court clerk of Fentress County," and some of the wedding...
Homespun red, black, and cream coverlet. Pieced together and handwoven on a one-inch loom. Supposedly these were used during the Civil War for hiding the family silver.
Red, green, and cream coverlet. Handwoven and pieced together on a one-inch loom. Supposedly used during the Civil War to wrap and hide the family silver.
Silver plate, serving spoon, four place spoons, one teaspoon, two dinner forks and four luncheon fork. All engraved "Athenaeum." Mostly of the fiddle pattern.
German silver (high nickel content) spur with rowell and leather strap. Massengill was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. No service record found for this individual in this unit. A service record exists for a Lt. Joseph F. Massengill in Co. B,...
