Christopher Ammonss1970 selective service card shows his name and signature on one side and physical description on the reverse. The classification of IV-A would have exempted him from service (for those whose military obligation was completed, or...
A pictorial representation in lithographic form of Nashivlle during the Civil War, with the camp of the Illinois 16th Volunteer Regiment at Edgefield in the foreground. The Cumberland River is seen in the background with gunboats and riverboats...
Faded red velvet cockade, housed within a folded sheet of paper. Staining marks the imprint of the rosette on both sides of the folded paper. Written at the top card is "Secession Cockade C.S.A., M.E.Y." Notation in the middle is believed to...
This quilt was made by Katherine Hicks, born in 1847. The design is a 9-patch within a 25-patch block. The top contains approximately 4361 pieces. She made the quilt when she was 13 years old, which was approximately 1860. The reverse portion of...
Cpl. Henry M. Misemer states that they are camped within one mile of the State Capitol in Nashville. He also states that his brother in-law, Sol, is in a Nashville hospital with dropsy, and that there was a big battle at Vicksburg that is still...
A small leather-bound Bible picked up on a Georgia battlefield. Within the Bible is a handwritten letter from a mother to her son. Birth and marriage dates are included for William Wiley Dunn and Mary H. E. Vineyard and their children Wiliam,...
Federal direct tax receipt paid by David Purvines to the Federal government as tax levied on "insurrectionary districts within the U.S. for other purposes approved June 7, 1862."
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Shield-shaped red felt patch embroidered in gold and green thread with a tree, a surveying tool, and the letters "CCC" appearing at the top of the shield.
Family portrait of the Rupper family, from Hebbertsburg, Tennessee, posed in front of two hanging quilts. The image features eight family members. Two quilts hang behind them. One quilt features a Double T pattern, and the other has a series of...
Large Butterfly quilt hanging from a clothesline. The quilt has alternating blocks of light and dark green set on point, so they appear as diamonds. A butterfly with brown-and-tan-checked wings is appliqued within each light green square.
General order issued by Assistant Adjutant General George William Brent condemning the army's wanton destruction of fences, houses, countrysides and other property. Brent describes such action as "unworthy the character of Confederate soldiers,...
List of the guns received for the 124th Regiment, Tennessee Militia, Bolivar, Tennessee, to Memphis. The document lists 176 citizens and the value of each donated firearm.
Order from General Bragg, issued by Assistant Adjutant General George G. Garner, congratulating the army on its role in the Confederate victory at the Battle of Hartsville and also permitting the corps engaged in that action to bear the name of the...
Special order transferring from the Pioneer Brigade, Army of the Cumberland, a sufficient number of men with more than a year to serve, to form a regiment of engineers in the Army of the Cumberland, as authorized by an Act of Congress, May 20, 1864.
Order issued by Federal 1st Lieutenant G. W. Anderdown that all in his command be prohibited from wasting ammunition, destroying fencing and garden trucks, or other depredations. The bell was to be rung for morning and night roll calls and...
General order No. 73 from Major General Rousseau sentencing Alfred Fowler of Sumner County to three years hard labor in the penitentiary in Nashville for the crime of "being a bushwhacker" with the Lay & Harper Gang, shooting at Federal Soldiers,...
Order from Confederate General James Longstreet, issued by Assistant Adjutant General William Small, directing the men to maintain their fortitude while enduring reduced rations and other hardships of the field, and presenting a letter captured...
Special order issued by Colonel James M. True and Post Adjutant E. R. Wiley Jr. specifying the method of collecting assessments for the support of Federal refugees. The order includes a list of individuals with assessments against them and the...
Pass from the Provost Marshal's Office at Gallatin, Tennessee, to permit W. T. Robinson to travel within Federal lines until further orders. The pass was issued by order of Brigadier General E. A. Paine, and signed by Major J. J. Searitt, Provost...
Account Form No. 22 from the United States Army Quartermaster to Private B. P. Pool of Company A, 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, for extra duty service as a wagoner for ninety-one days- September, October, and November of 1862- at twenty-five...
