A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), of J. W. Barnes, the last surviving CSA Veteran. James W. Barnes was with Company I, 55th (McKoin’s) Tennessee Infantry and Company I, 44th Tennessee Infantry. Barnes was born on June 16th, 1843,...
A photograph of the marching bands of Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville on the Shields-Watkins field in Knoxville. The gridiron match between the rival football teams took place on November 13, 1937. Football fans from...
A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...
A photographic view showing some of the Shields-Watkins field at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville campus and football fans attending the gridiron match between Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee on November 13, 1937. The...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about graduates in the beauty culture school in Columbia, Tennessee. The caption reads: “Columbia, Tenn., March 1 (Spl.) Students of the NYA girls school here, which reopened at the historic...
A photograph of "a view of the tavern stables, built more than a hundred years ago…Originally a tavern on the stage line running East and West from Nashville through Charlotte. Part of the stable building on the East side was the original stable....
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Among the soldiers marching past the admiring crowd was Sergt. Dixon Johnson, Headquarters, Second Battalion, third from left in the line of march shown. Sergeant Johnson is a reporter for The Banner who is on leave of absence to...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “’Big Boy Sarg,’ a two-year-old Great Dane, the mascot of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, condescended to look over the proceedings of the day accompanied by, left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and...
Pictured: “… the Fire Direction Center, demonstrated by Headquarters Battery, First Battalion, Sergt. Leo Britt is shown explaining the working of a rangefinder to his mother, Mrs. L. J. Britt (left), and his fiancée, Miss Louise Harris. All...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: The Great Dane mascot “Big Boy Sarg” of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, with left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and Dallas? Roberts, all of the Brigade Headquarters Battery, and all from Lebanon,...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...