Crayon portrait of Union soldier from Dyer County, Tennessee
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.) |
ID# |
dyer015 |
Digital type |
Image |
Copyright |
No copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Ordering Information |
To order a digital reproduction of this item, please send our order form at http://tsla.tnsosfiles.com/general/forms/ImagingOrder.pdf to Photo Orders, Tennessee State Library & Archives, 403 7th Ave. N., Nashville, TN 37243-0312, or email to photoorders.tsla@tn.gov. Further ordering information can be found at the following location: http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/ordering-images-and-microfilm-digitization . |
Location Digitized |
Dyersburg, Dyer County, Tennessee |
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