Brady family wooden box
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1860/1870
- Description
The 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 this box and buried it under a barn in order to hide; their coverlets, quilts, and valuables from marauding guerrillas. The Brady family lived in the Grassy Cove area of Cumberland County (Tenn."
- Partner
- Digital Library of Tennessee
- Contributing Institution
- Tennessee State Library and Archives
- Collection
- Looking Back: The Civil War in Tennessee
- Location
- Cumberland County (Tenn.)
- Type
- image
- Rights
- No copyright - United States: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Chicago citation style
- Brady family wooden box. 1860/1870. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll6/id/7100. (Accessed October 3, 2023.)
- APA citation style
- (1860/1870) Brady family wooden box. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll6/id/7100
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll6/id/7100>.