Two young brothers from Pulaski, Tennessee. Dressed in black uniforms and holding hands with their arms around their shoulders. Leonidas is on the left and Buckner is on the right. Buckner was killed in the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky. Leonidas...
Sword belonging to Edwin L. Higgins (24 January 1873 to 1 July 1875). Born in Missouri. Served w/Co. I, 7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, USA. (90 days). Served with Co. K, 33rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was wounded at Vicksburg. He was...
Ambrotype of Peter Peterson Knudson (1840 - October 13, 1863), 2nd Minn. Army, USA. He enlisted on July 5, 1861, and was mortally wounded while on picket duty on October 12, 1863.
Tintype of William Henry Palmer as a lieutenant in the 68th Ohio Vol. Reg. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio...
Ruby ambrotype of William Henry Palmer. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio Vol. Reg. He saw action in the...
William Henry Palmer with his Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) medallion. Palmer was born November 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in April 1861 and served in the 14th...
Ambrotype of William Henry Palmer as a sergeant in the 68th Ohio Vol. Reg. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio...
Photograph of William Henry Palmer. Palmer was born Nov. 11, 1842, in Holmes County, Ohio. His family moved to Defiance County, Ohio, around 1850. Palmer enlisted in Apr. 1861 and served in the 14th Ohio Vol. Reg. He saw action in the summer of...
Carte-de-visite of Monroe Pointer, who joined Co. L, 154th Tenn. Inf., in Memphis, March 1862. He was wounded in the neck at Shiloh and ended the war as a conscript at the Grenada, Miss., supply depot, May 1865.
Carte-de-visite of Dr. Charles Bonner, father of Kate Sherwood Bonner of Holly Springs, Mississippi. He operated a field hospital, caring for the wounded from the Battle of Shiloh and other battles in Mississippi. Dr. Bonner died in September...
Photograph of William Henry Edwards with reunion medal attached to lapel. Edwards served in Co. E, 9th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry CSA, December 1861 to May 1865. He was wounded outside Atlanta at New Hope Church, Georgia, captured and imprisioned...
Henry Osborn, Co. F, 8th Tennesee Infantry, CSA. Osborn is pictured holding his pistol. He was wounded in upper chest and shoulder at Stones River in Murfeesboro, Tennessee. He married Armilda Copeland in Overton County, Tennessee. They had six...
New York Herald featuring the account of the Lincoln assassination. The bylines include, "Important Assassination of President Lincoln. The President Shot at the Theatre Last Evening. Secretary Seward daggered in his bed but not mortally wounded."
Carte de visite showing Major Joseph J. Cooper, Company F, 39th Regiment Volunteer Massachusetts Militia, USA. Cooper, looking away from the camera, is standing with one hand tucked into the front of his uniform coat. Cooper enlisted in the...
Tintype of James William Sarver (1841-1862), 2nd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA. Sarver is wearing an Army of Tennessee, CSA, uniform and a badge of secession. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.
CSA cavalry sword and scabard that belonged to Jacob Cruse of Lincoln County, Tennessee. Cruse enlisted at George's Store on April 29, 1861. He served until April 27, 1862, and was discharged. Cruse re-enlisted on April 29, 1863, as a private in...
Letter from 1st Lt. John A. Crutchfield, Co. F, 20th (Russell's) Tenn. Cav. Regt., part of Nathan Bedford Forrest's command in northern Mississippi describing recent battle (Battle of Harrisburg?) in Mississippi and his unit's losses. Crutchfield...
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his father. Teague discusses whether or not he should purchase land. He states that if his father wants to buy the land he will furnish him sixty dollars. Teague served as a messenger with the 9th Tenn. Vol. Cav....
Letter from John Wesley Teague to his wife Sarah. Teague discusses other "boyes" from home that he has seen and how they are doing. He states that Martin Brock, with the 3rd Tenn. Regt., came as a prisoner and the other soldiers convinced him to...
Letter written on United States Sanitary Commission stationery. Misemer states that he has been absent 6 months from the Federal lines while he was in Cahaba Prison in Alabama. He compares it to Purgatory. He goes on to state that all the boys from...
