A woman is standing on a porch near a wash tub with a wash board inside. The tub is raised by laying a wooden chair on its side. Two large lard cans just visible beside the chair may hold cleaning products. The woman is dressed in a sunbonnet, dark...
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...
Print of the Federal Ironclad "Montauk" destroying the Confederate Privateer "Nashville" in the Ogeechee River. The "Montauk" is a low-profile inroclad steamship on the left, and the "Nashville," a converted passenger vessel, is in flames. Men...
This engraving entitled "Decisive Charge Upon Byrne's Confederate Battery, By The Seventy-Eight Pennsylvania and Twenty-First Ohio Volunteers, at the Battle of Murfreesboro, January 2d 1863" was published in an 1892 edition of Harper's Weekly.
This page in Mitchener's diary shows the barracks as they appeared on January 27, 1945, after a rapid evacuation of the POW camp. The picture shows the interior of a room with everything in disarray. He writes,"As result [sic] on a cold Sat. P.M....
General view of a Memphis street along the river front reflects the hustle and bustle of commerce and the cotton industry as displayed in downtown along Front Street. Freedmen and their families are seen laboring and occupying the area.
Illustration in "Harper's Weekly," March 28, 1868, p. 193, shows President Andrew Johnson, attended by Col. W. G. Brown, being served an impeachment summons by George T. Brown, Sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate, in the White House.
Race relations riot that occurred in Memphis in May of 1866. The black population of Memphis had swelled from 4,000 to over 15,000 by 1865. The volatile mix of former slaves or contraband, long-time freedmen of the Beale Street area, four regiments...
Inventions; Soldiers; Prisoners; Signaling; Water carriers; Shelters; Artillery (Weaponry); Equipment; Carts & Wagons; Military camps; Tents
Fifteen images illustrating the imaginative way that Civil War soldiers tackled a variety of transportation, housing, equipment, and survival issues. Engravings on the back of the page appeared in Frank Leslie's post-war volume "The Soldier in Our...
Copy engraving depicts "Forrest's Raiders Attacking Irvin[g] Prison" on August 22, 1864. Taken from a September 10, 1864, Harper's Weekly, sketched by George H. Ellsbury. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's cavalry carried out a daring daytime raid on...
This pro-Confederate newspaper was published in Memphis until the city's fall to Federal forces in June 1862. Casualties from the Battle of Belmont, Ky., are reported in this issue.
Scrimshaw, or decorated whale's tooth, enscribed with a scene from Harper's Weekly depicting the sinking of the CSS Alabama by the USS Kearsage. The battle took place on June 19, 1864 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
First sheet includes: date, name, railroad, from, to, distance, cost, and name and rank of officer ordering transportation. The second sheet includes names of sixty-six persons travelling with William Chambers. Persons listed include: William...
Special weekly report of transportation for week ending September 30, 1865, by William Alonzo Wainwright Assistant Quartermaster, Department of Tennessee, in Knoxville, Tennessee. Persons listed on form include: Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Polk...
Special Weekly Report of Transportation furnished to Citizens, Refugees, et cetera at Knoxville, Tennessee, for the week ending February 3, 1866, by Wainwright, Assistant Quartermaster.
