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...
Military parades & ceremonies; Universities & colleges; Military maneuvers; Marching
Long procession of State Guardsmen marching through Cookeville on Sunday after the maneuvers. A sign pointing to Tennessee Technological University is in the background.
Boys; Teenagers; Young adults; Military maneuvers; Military training
Four sixteen-year-olds who are gaining experience for when they attain regular Army age are shown with a twenty-six-year-old machine gun trooper. This photograph was taken during the Seventh Regiment's Large-Scale Maneuvers which took place in...
Military bands; Marching; Military parades & ceremonies; Musical instruments; Military Maneuvers; Military training
Regimental parade through the business district of Cookeville after the maneuvers were completed. The parade was under the direction of the regimental adjutant, Captain Henry Frank Carlen.
Letter from Pvt. John Drew McClanahan, Co. C, 9th Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, to his father after Shiloh. Recounting his work in Corinth, he writes, "The whole army is at work; and the boys work in earnest like they were working for themselvesNo doubt,...
Photograph of Larkin H. Poe, age 94, seated at the site of his old house on the Chickamauga Battlefield. The house was burned to the ground during the battle. The front of a car can be seen in the background.
Sheet music covers; Caricatures; African Americans; Blackface entertainers
Cover shows a caricature drawing of an African American couple wearing formal clothing. The man is bowing and the woman is curtsying. At right is a tiered cake on a table with a sign reading "Dis cake will be given to de most graceful couple."...
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...
Two-page letter to his son George Carroll Harris of Nashville, Elisha W. Harris writes from his plantation Waco Place in Louisiana of attending a local political meeting. He details the zest the crowd displays for politics and the presidential...
Four-page letter from Beck Wallace to her cousin, Samuel Latta, of the 13th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, makes reference to her war work, particularly a concert she has helped organize in Macon to benefit the Southern Mothers in Memphis. She writes of...
Communication from J. S. Johnson in North Carolina containing Special Order No. 5 from General J. E. Johnston, C. S. A., commanding the officers and soldiers of the Confederate Army and Navy not to take up arms against the United States, and...
