Tintype of an unidentified woman from Monroe County, Kentucky, whose family fought for the Confederate Army
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesTintype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress with a white bow in her hair. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
Receipts for services as a Confederate “home guard Minuteman”
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesFive receipts for "services rendered as home guard minute man." Three of the receipts are dated September 5, 1861. The other two are dated October 11 and October 12. The men named on the receipts rece…
Book titled History of the Soldiers’ Aid Society of Ann Arbor, Michigan
View Full Item in University of MichiganHandwritten resolution of the Tennessee Hospital Association, September 18, 1861
Tennessee Hospital AssociationView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesHandwritten resolution of the Tennessee Hospital Association--alternately known as the Ladies' Hospital Association of Nashville, the Ladies' Tennessee Hospital Association, the Nashville Tennessee Ho…
Illustration of Union loyalist Christopher Haun of Tennessee parting from his family before his 1861 execution for blowing up a Confederate railroad bridge
View Full Item in Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State UniversityWilliam G. Brownlow, Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., 1862), p. 312
Ambrotype portrait of a woman wearing a Union officer’s belt buckle
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesAmbrotype of an unidentified woman in antebellum dress wearing a military belt buckle. The woman is from Monroe County, Kentucky. Her family members reportedly fought for the 4th Kentucky, USA.
Letter from Maud Fentress to her son David about life at home in wartime, February 3, 1862
Fentress, Maud CView Full Item in UNT Libraries Special CollectionsTranscript of a letter from Maud Fentress to her son, David Fentress telling him about day to day life. In her letter, she discusses the rising cost of goods and crops, and she also comments on the de…
Illustration of a Soldiers’ Aid Society office during the Civil War
View Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyWoodcut of an office of a Soldiers' Aid Office during the Civil War
Daguerreotype of an unknown Confederate soldier and his wife
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesCased, brass-matted daguerreotype of an unidentified Confederate soldier and a woman thought to be his wife. Both are seated, and pose with their hands in their laps. Young man wears a uniform jacket…
A letter explaining that tax funds to finance aid to the families of soldiers will not be available before February, Madison, Wisconsin, 1862
Hastings, Samuel DView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn open letter explaining that the tax funds to finance aid to the families of soldiers will not be available before February due to the actions of Democratic members of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Letter from Solomon Dubois to Johannes Lefevre about life in New Paltz, New York while many of its men are off fighting, February 17, 1863
Dubois, SolomonView Full Item in Historic Huguenot StreetLetter written from Solomon Dubois to Johannes discussing news from home. Sol is concerned that Johannes may be "hard up" for women and then goes on to write about his trip to Plattekill to see Fredri…
Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of southern politican James Chesnut, chronicling her experiences of the war from Columbia, South Carolina
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886View Full Item in Yale UniversityBEIN Za C4255 905D: Autograph of Madeleine Forrest and bookseller's label of International Bookfinders.
Tintype portrait of an unidentified African American woman
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesHandcolored ambrotype of unidentified African-American female. She is shown with her hands folded and wears a wedding ring.
Photograph of a hospital yard in Nashville, Tennessee, July 1863
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesScene in the yard of a military hospital in Nashville, showing numerous men and women, some African American, among lines of hanging laundry.
Thank-you letter for donating to the Ladies’ Soldiers’ Aid Society, Curllsville, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1863
Thorne, CharlotteView Full Item in Santa Clara UniversityLetter from Charlotte Thorne to Captain Bernard J. Reid. She thanks him for donated to the Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society.
Issue of Forney’s War Press reporting on the war, September 12, 1863
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesOriginal newspaper, Forney's War Press, published Philadelphia, September 12, 1863. Woodcut on front page shows guerrillas attacking a cattle train. John W. Forney served as secretary of the US Senate…
Memoir of Confederate spy and Washington socialite Rose O’Neal Greehnow, 1863
Grenhow, Rose O'Neal, Mrs. d. 1864View Full Item in University of MichiganMrs. Greenhow was a secret agent of the Confederate goverrnment.
Brady family wooden box, built to store valuables and hide them from marauding guerillas in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesThe Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee experienced brutal guerrilla warfare throughout the Civil War. According to local and family lore the Thomas Majors and Samuel Brady families constructed thi…
Photographs of the family of Confederate Sergeant Robert Frederick Johnson
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesSgt. Robert Frederick Johnson, Co. D, 7th Tenn. Cav., CSA, and his wife, Sarah Madison Taylor Johnson hold their daughter, Claudia. The baby died at the age of 15 months after a servant gave her cornb…
Document planning a fundraising fair for the Chicago Sanitary Commission, 1863
Chicago Sanitary CommissionView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyDuring the Civil War, the United States Sanitary Commission was the largest volunteer organization in national history, with chapters formed all around the northern states. In 1863, the Chicago Sanita…
Pamphlet titled “How Can We Best Help Our Camps and Hospitals?” published by the Women’s Central Association of Relief, New York, 1863
Woman's Central Association of ReliefView Full Item in U.S. National Library of MedicineCover title Will digitize Condition reviewed
Political cartoon titled “A Hint for the Sanitary Fair,” March 26, 1864
Unknown, Harper's WeeklyView Full Item in Gettysburg CollegeGettysburg College - GettOpen Public Collection; Political cartoons
An appeal for donations to aid white southern refugees at Cairo, Illinois, 1864
Johnson, John WView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyAn appeal for donations to aid white Southern refugees at Cairo
Memoir and letters from nurse Phoebe Pember who served at Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia
Pember, Phoebe Yates, 1823-1913View Full Item in University of MichiganCarte de visite portrait of Joseph Jefferson Dention, a member of the Home Guard in Cocke County, Tennessee, with his brothers
View Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesJoseph Jefferson Denton was a member of the homeguard in Cocke County, Tenn. He was born March 8, 1810 died Sept. 9, 1887. He was a strong Union man during the war and joined the Union League in Cocke…
Broadside from the Confederate Office of Chief Wool Agent restricting the private sale of wool in Georgia, 1864
Confederate States of America. War DeptView Full Item in Duke UniversitySigned: Wm. Hunter, Chief Wool Agent, District "A"; dated: Office of Chief Wool Agent of Confederate States, for District "A". Savannah, May 20, 1864. Caption title.
Diary entries from Martha Canfield about the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum, which she founded in November 1864
Canfield, S.A. MarthaView Full Item in Tennessee State Library and ArchivesPages 15 through 24 of a pamphlet containing diary entries from Mrs. S. A. Martha Canfield with regard to the Memphis Colored Orphan Asylum that she founded. Mrs. Canfield observed the efforts of Rev…
Letter from Rowena McMicken to her husband relating news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin, April 27, 1865
McMicken, Rowena OstranderView Full Item in University of WashingtonThis letter, from Rowena Ostrander McMicken to her husband, Captain William McMicken of the 10th Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, relates news about the war and life at home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Sh…
