Title	Crayon portrait of Union soldier from Dyer County, Tennessee
Description	Framed crayon portrait of a soldier wearing the uniform of the 14th Tenn. Cav. Regt., USA. Also called Bradford's Battalion, it was virtually annihilated at Ft. Pillow, Tenn., in April 1864. Confederate forces under the command of Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest overran the garrison and massacred hundreds of black soldiers after they surrendered.
Date	circa 1863-1864
Place of original	Dyer County (Tenn.)
Location Digitized	Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee
ID#	dyer015
Digital type	Image
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