Broadsides; Death & burial; Funeral rites & ceremonies; Graves; Mothers
Nashville Banner print giving details of the death and burial of Andrew Jackson's mother. The broadside refutes the rumor that Mrs. Jackson was buried on the roadside.
Cpl. Henry Marshall Misemer describes changes to his company as well as Jacob Briente being promoted to captain of their company. He states that he has been vaccinated three times for smallpox, but believes that it is no longer a threat to the...
Tintype of Sgt. Rufus Daniel Lawson. He was from Bedford County, Tenn., or Vermont, but he was raised in Bedford County. He died of smallpox in Nashville at the end of the war on March 31, 1865. A pension record from October 1865, was filed by his...