An excerpt from an oral history interview with Roger DuVal Baskette, Sr., conducted on 3 February 2003 by Robert P. Richardson as part of the Nashville Public Library's Veterans History Project. Baskette, a gunner in the 90th Chemical Mortar...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Larry Patterson, conducted on 17 September 2007 by his grandson Alex Williams at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, reading letters in front of their tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898.
The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the...
A studio portrait (seated) of a Nashville soldier, Private John Knopp of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers, 1898 at Camp Merritt, California. The card index identifies the soldier as "John Knopp," while the Knopp surname referenced in the regimental...
An 1898 photograph of some of the members of Co. F. of 1st Tennessee Volunteers when in line getting their dinner at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May,...
A photograph of the 1st Tennessee Volunteers in front of tent at Camp Merritt, San Francisco, California, in 1898. The First Tennessee Regiment was mustered into federal service in Nashville circa May, 1898. Selected by the War Department for...
A photograph of women building planes at Vultee Aircraft, 1941-1945. The plant built P-38 Lightning fighters and the Vultee Vengeance dive bombers during World War II. The Vultee plant opened on 04 May 1941 and over the years has produced more...
An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville lawyer and judge Alfred Thompson Adams, conducted on 16 September 1980 by Leanne Thornton as part of the Historic Nashville, Inc. Oral History Project. Adams, who served Nashville as...
A one-page (front and back) handwritten letter by Clarence Jackson "Jack" Davis, to his parents, Mr. Benton V. Davis and Mrs. Mildred Jackson Davis, of Nashville, Tenn. Jack Davis joined the Marine Corps Reserve to help finance his education at...
A photograph of several Tennessee National Guard soldiers walking across an open area in front of a load of supplies, surrounded by numerous tents serving as living quarters for the troops in the Saudi Arabian desert during Operation Desert Shield....
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862, Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A letter from Dutch immigrant, Peter J. Williamson, back home to his wife, Eunice, during the Civil War. In 1862 Williamson enlisted as a Private in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, Company F and was ultimately promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant. During...
A postcard of the Confederate Soldiers' Home. The Confederate Soldiers' Home was built on the original Hermitage properties in 1892 and served as a retirement home for civil war soldiers. On land southwest of the Hermitage mansion, the soldiers'...
A photograph of Coast Guard sailor Victor Cooley (left) and an unidentified sailor aboard the destroyer escort, USS Mosley (DE-321), one of several Navy vessels manned by Coast Guard crews during World War II. The Mosley served on patrol in the...
A snapshot of a group of five soldiers posed casually in the woods outside of a large tent next to a tree serving as a signpost. Two homemade signs reading "5th Ave." and "Church Street," are nailed into the tree as if marking that intersection. ...
This is a pass for Edward E. O'Connor, Jr., who served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. The card was issued at the gunnery school at Tyndall Field in Panama City, Florida, on August 24, 1944. The front of the card...
A photograph of Tillman William "Bill" Bratton standing in a U.S. military camp in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. In this photograph, Bratton is holding an M-16 rifle and wearing a helmet and flak vest. He served in the...
A photograph of Troy Gibson, a Middle Tennessee State University student serving in the Tennessee National Guard, who stands outside a tent surrounded by boxes of water. The photograph was taken by Nashville Banner photographer Larry McCormack on...
A photograph of Sgt. K. C. Henry of Lafayette, Tenn. who prepares to take down the Tennessee state flag from its makeshift but sturdy flagpole at a campsite in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield. The campsite, nicknamed "Hotel California"...
A close-up photograph of Frances Garrett of Lebanon, Tennessee, wearing a desert camouflage "boonie" hat, mirrored sunglasses, and a scarf tied about her neck. She is a soldier in the Tennessee National Guard, serving in Saudi Arabia during the...