Alvin York (center) standing with film producer Jesse Lasky (right of York) and his son Jesse Jr. (left of York) in front of a building in Jamestown, Tennessee. Two other men can be seen talking to the left of York and his associates, and a man...
An older man is wearing glasses, a large hat, bib overalls, and a leather jacket. He stands holding a long rifle in his left hand, and a leather satchel and powder horn slung under right arm.
Alvin C. York standing with four other men. The man to York's right is Jesse Lasky, legendary film producer, who was the primary producer for the 1941 film, "Sergeant York," about York's exploits in the First World War. Lasky's son, Jesse Jr.,...
Four-page letter written on Fort Campbell stationery by Christopher Ammons from basic training to his family. He details gathering together some items and visiting a museum, but the majority of the letter describes and lauds PVT Smith (Smitty)....
Cartoon depicting Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of a slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and...
Cabinet card of Civil War veteran, Andrew Baxter, 21st Tenn. Cav. Regt., CSA. The following is inscribed on the back of the image: "Andrew Baxter my uncle lost his arm in Civil War he is the father of Miss Ethel Baxter a head nurse at the Baptist...
Cabinet card of Confederate veteran James (Jim) Maupin. The son of Robert B. Maupin and Nancy Wood Maupin, James sided with the Confederate cause during the war while his brother, Robert C. Maupin, fought for the Union.
Cabinet card of Pvt. Daniel Byrd Huffine, Co. E, 8th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA, wearing a Union veteran (Grand Army of the Republic) medal. Photo by Cargille of Johnson City, Tenn.
Major William Preston Graves (February 1841 - January 20, 1889) in U. S. Army uniform. Graves was a veteran of the Civil War and a career military officer. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and died in Little Rock Barracks, Arkansas.
Christopher Ammons with Pvt. Smith (Smitty), a 35-year-old veteran of the Korean War who volunteered for Vietnam. The faces of the two soldiers are complete but the picture, which was probably torn from a photo-booth strip, has jagged edges at top...
Coin purse (from the First National Bank of Camden, Tennessee) that belonged to Willis Crawford Rushing (1826-1916). Rushing was a Civil War veteran living in Benton County in 1897. He used the coin purse to carry bullets.
John R. G. Rives saluting in a Confederate uniform. "CSA" is emblazoned on his belt buckle and hat, and a medal and ribbon are pinned on his left breast.
Photographic reprint of Capt. A. Cecil Dale, CSA. Dale was from Celina, Tenn. (near present-day Dale Hollow Dam area). He fought at Shiloh, Chickamauga, and Lookout Mountain where he was captured. He was imprisoned at Atlanta until the end of the...
A photograph of the "Nashville Tabernacle" in the May 1897, Volume V, Number 5, of the Confederate Veteran magazine. Text beneath the image states that the 7th reunion of the United Confederate Veterans is to be held there June 22-24, 1897. Text...
Broadsides; Announcements; Handbills; Fliers (printed matter); Flags; Military standards
Announcement of fund-raising fiddling and banjo picking contest to raise money for the Leonidas Polk Bivouac No. 3, and William Henry Trousdale Camp No. 495 of Confederate Veterans and for "indigent and decrepit Confederate Soldiers." There is...
John Sanford Barker was born July 8, 1827, in Monroe County, Tennessee, the son of Burrell and Elizabeth Barker. He was a veteran of the Union Army, serving from September 1864 through June 1865 under Capt. Charles A. Pickens in Co. A, 5th Regt....
Copyprint of George Hampton, Co. G., 16th US Colored Inf. Regt. Hampton was born in Warren Co., Ky. He mustered in at Clarksville, Tenn., February 16, 1864 and attained the rank of sergeant in October 1865. He died December 28, 1908, and is buried...
