Military personnel

Scope and Contents Small photograph album with the name W.G. McNeil (April 11, 1928) on the inside cover. Includes b&w (sepia) snapshots of unidentified African-Americans, ca. 1918-1928. Lake Michigan is noted on one photograph. Candid and posed snapshots , some with first names (Marie, Willie, etc.). Loose pictures from inside the album are housed in two envelopes, one with 11 small photographs, the other with 6 larger snapshots. Two handwritten notes mention the Grahl and Wilcox surnames with family...

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SPC 1995.007a: W.T. Webb Grocery Store, 946 South Seventh Street (later Fifteenth Street), Knoxville, Tenn. L-r: Harley Webb or Melvin Webb, W.T. Webb, ?, Lafayette (‘Fate’) Webb.5x7” sepia, mounted.; SPC 1995.007b: Home Guard (men in military uniform with rifles, drums). Front row, 5th man kneeling from left is Joseph Albert Ahler. 7x 9 1/4”. sepia, mounted.

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Printed political cartoon re: Andrew Johnson entitled ‘Johnson’s Love For the Soldier.’ Ca. 1866. Portrays favoritism of African American solders over white soldiers. Back of card is printed with information about paying Black soldiers $300.00 and not having money to pay White soldiers $100.00. Anti-Johnson. 3 x 4.25.” 7 copies.

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8 X 10” B&W photograph adhered to piece of glass. At Queen Theatre, Knoxville, Tenn. Six men in military uniforms with framed military portraits and large painting, Uncle Sam on poster. “Fighting In France” on posters and the marquee. 1918. .

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Battery G, First Tennessee Artillery roster. In Camp at Camp Sevier, 1917. Mustered in Federal Service Aug. 5, 1917. Became Battery C 114th Field Artillery Sept. 13, 1917. Roster of soldier’s names. Includes Bernard J. Hannifin, Knoxville (ancestor of donor). Etching of soldiers and sea battle at top of document. One original + 1 copy . 16 x 21”

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Eleven cartes-de-visite of Civil War Union officers. SPC 2014-013-001 Orlando M. Poe (signed). SPC 2014-013-002 M. ([Marsena] R. Patrick. SPC 2014-013-003 John G. Parke. SPC 2014-013-004 Wm. P. Sanders. SPC 2014-013-005 Rufus Saxton. SPC 2014-013-006 Robert C. Schenck. SPC 2014-013-007 Wm. Rosencrans. SPC 2014-013-008 [Lovell] Rousseau. SPC 2014-013-009 D. G. Farragut.(signed). SPC 2014-013-010 David G. Farragut. SPC 2014-013-011 Charles W. Sanford.

Scope and Contents The Charles Floyd Shipe Papers consist primarily of the letters written by Floyd Shipe to his wife Ruth Caroline Fowler Shipe during World War II. Floyd Shipe was born on June 6, 1909, in Knox County, Tennessee, and died on March 25, 1993. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from May 1942 until September 1945, and he wrote to his wife nearly every day. The Shipes lived near Halls Cross Roads in Knox County, Tennessee. The contents of the letters cover issues of health, finance, farming,...

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March 29, 1815 letter from W. P. Anderson, Col. 24th Inf., Comg. East Section, 7th Military District, Mobile, to Col. E. E. Booth, 5th Regt., Tennessee Militia. ALS 2 pp. Re: Major General Jackson’s orders to Booth to bring his troops to Tennessee to be discharged. Cautions them to avoid the “Marauding practices of the troops of General Taylor’s Brigade...”

Scope and Contents SPC 2017.007 Co. “C” 3rd Tenn. Infy. Knoxville, Tenn. Photo by Branson’s Studio. Group of military men in uniform, seated on bleachers with three men standing in front. Two men are holing animals (dogs?), one young boy in front row. Inscribed on back: Presented to Mrs. Ella Smith by her brother Richard Wyatt before starting to France. And also a Nephew and Cousin in same Company. Leaving Knoxville for training camps in Greenville, S.C. on 9th Sept. 1917. 8 x 10” sepia print mounted on mat...

Scope and Contents Twenty-three Civil War CVDs of men from the First Tennessee Cavalry. In an album that belonged to Lt. Col. Calvin M. Dyer--his picture was removed before the album was sold. Binding damaged. One album with clasp fastener. Index to Portraits: 1. Capt. Elbert J. Cannon 2. Lt. Col. Calvin M. Dyer (photograph removed from album) 3. Lt. John Roberts 4. Lt. John N. Hariss [Harris?] 5. Capt. Jacob K. Lones 6. Lt. James H. Smith 7. Sargt Martin L. Peters 8. Sargt James B. Clapp 9. Corpl Nathan A....

Scope and Contents The Earl D. Reed Collection contains Mr. Reed's two photograph albums and related printed material. The two photograph albums, which document his career with the U. S. military in the 1930s and 1940s, are particularly interesting, since these include photographs of the fighting between the Japanese and Chinese forces in China in the years before World War II. The collection, housed in two boxes, was a gift of Judy Cowden in December 2005. The collection includes: U.S. Naval Academy, two...

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“Ex Confederate Reunion” Decatur Tennessee Sept. 27, 1893. Group photograph with men holding flags in background, seated men with musical instruments in foreground. Taken by A.M. Tomlinson, Photographer. Athens, Tenn. 9.5x7.25” image on matte board. Damaged: stained, faded. Also, identified by seller as from same day (background building is the same): group picture with men, some women and children, U.S. flag and 26th Tennessee flag. 8x5” on backing. Faded.

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11 8x10” B&W copy photographs from J.P. Roddy, Jr.: South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn. 1917. 1 pc.; frozen Tennessee River from different views, one with Kyle Jenkins, 1917. 5 pcs.; Third Tennessee Infantry (became the 117th Infantry of the 30th Division), March & September 1917. 5 pcs.

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Material re: WOJG James R. Eddy, Knoxville, Tenn., and his career in the United States Air Force and work with the Ground Observer Corps. Ca. 1952 and later. Photocopies.

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Photograph album of James Robinson Ogden, who came to Knoxville with the 2nd Ohio Cavalry during the Civil War, Leather 5x6” album containing mostly Civil War era CDVs (cartes-de-visite). 22 photographs. Subjects include: John Keyes, view of Knoxville(?), [General Ambrose] Burnside, General George Stoneman, James R. Mitchell, H.C. Squire(?), W. Chamberlain, Henry Chester, E.C. Ruggles.

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Jim Thompson Co., Thompson Photograph Albums. World War I, Great Smoky Mountains.

Scope and Contents 215 postcards, 13 pcs. WWI papers, 9 photographs, misc. items. Subjects: World War I, postcards, photographs of WWI soldier in uniform, Mrs. Belle Jones, Robert Taylor Jones, YMCA mail to soldiers, photograph-postcards of military scenes in Europe, Knoxville postcards, Co. C, 5th Division, 7th US Engineers, US Expeditionary Forces, WWI letter, ephemera. Knoxville postcards: The Hotel Farragut (2 copies), the Masonic Temple, Holston National Bank, C.B. Atkins Residence, Lawson McGhee Library,...

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Includes 3 boxes of correspondence to Martin Hunt from friends (many from Knoxville) who served overseas during World War II (no date, 1940-1945). Arranged by date.

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QSPC 2016.001 Identified as Fourth Tennessee Regiment in parade, at corner of Gay Street and Clinch Avenue. Ca. 1898. Spanish-American War. Military men in uniform, on horseback and on foot, in street. Some with musical instruments. Flags to the side, crowds on sidewalk with police officers. Signs visible for Electric Dental Co. and McCormick. 11x14” COPY photograph with dried glue on the back.

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“Outdoor view of Lt. Colonel Hannah and “Major” Hannah (dog). Lt. Col. Hannah served in the 4th Tennessee Infantry during the Spanish-American War. His collar devices show “4” and “Tenn” as well as crossed rifles. Taken at Camp Poland, in Knoxville. (information supplied by seller). Printed on mounting card: Chaney Co. C, 4th T.V.I. The Soldier’s Photographer, Camp Poland, Knoxville.

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Paul C. Wyatt, World War II Photograph Albums. Includes: World War II photograph album, kept by Paul C. Wyatt of Knoxville. 30 photographs of scenes, soldiers, and related images in North Africa and Italy. Also, a smaller album titled: "Service Record" with soldier photographs and photo postcard views. Gift of Ron Allen 2005.

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Three copies of same item. 8x10” B&W photographic copy of etching/lithograph of “Rebel Charge on Fort Sanders, Nov. 29, 1863.” ‘Taken from a sketch made at the time by U.H. Buchtel, Co. H, 104th U.V.I.’

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Revolutionary War Pensions. United States Bureau of Pensions. Knoxville, Tenn, Agency. Vol. 1: 1823-1826. Includes index at front of volume. 173 pp. + notes at back. Bound. Vol 3: 1833-1841. Index at front of volume. Pp. 122-128 cut out but in place in volume. 149 pp. Bound. Vol. III was a gift of Capt. William Rule.

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Samuel L. King, 2nd Lieut., 26th Inf., World War I certificate. Drawing of Columbia with soldier in uniform at her feet. 14 x 19” 1 pc. (water damage at upper right). From donor: Samuel Lee King, Jr. (April 20, 1895-January 23, 1959) was the son of Col. Samuel Lee King, Sr. and Annie Phipps King. He was wounded at Soissons, France in WWI and never married.

Scope and Contents ‘Scenes in the Mining Regions of Tenn. From original negatives by Singleton & McFarland, Photographers, 257 Gay Street, Knoxville, Tenn’. List on back of photographs of ‘Groups we have taken at Briceville, Coal Creek, Fort Anderson and Camp Carnes. Number circled on back is 671: Queen City Guards on Walden’s Ridge.’ Photograph shows young men in military uniform seated and standing outdoors, holding rifles. Images area is 8.5 x6”, mounted on (damaged) printed board. 1 pc. + 4x5” copy...

Scope and Contents SPC 2014.022.001 Melvin Cox Brandon (Portrait by Bachrach, in folder, 1923) (8.5 x 5.5 inches). Sepia. 1 pc. + folder. Panoramas: Third Tennessee Troops of Melvin Cox Brandon. SPC 2014.022.002 Dress Parade 3rd Tenn. U. S. Vol. Infantry, Anniston, Ala., Jan, 20th, 1899. (Panorama No. 120, Russell Bros. Photo, Anniston, Ala.) (25.5 x 8.75 inches) SPC 2014.022.003 Co. A, 3rd Tenn. U. S. Volunteers, Camp Shipp, Anniston, Ala., Jan. 18th 1899. (Panorama No. 120, Russell Bros. Photo, Anniston,...

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TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) meeting held in City Council meeting room on the second floor of the old Market House, Knoxville, Tenn. April 28, 1934. Int. Audience view, includes a number of men in military uniform. B&W 8x10” copy photograph.

Scope and Contents Papers of William Richard Caswell (1809-1862), a lawyer, military officer, and director of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad. He was the son of Richard William and Sarah Lytle Caswell of North Carolina, and was the great-grandson of the first governor of North Carolina, Richard Caswell. He married Elizabeth Carter Gillespie, a descendant of Landon Carter and Col. John Carter. William Richard Caswell lived in Knox County, Tenn, and was politically active, served as an officer of the...

Scope and Contents The papers of William Stanhope Foster include: personal and military correspondence, 1818, 1820-21, 1825-26, 1831-1839; letter books of the United State Army, 4th Infantry Regiment, 1828-1838; military operations journals of the 4th Infantry Regiment, 1837-1838; Army and Navy Chronicle , 1837 (complete), 1838-1839 (sporadic); maps related to the Florida Campaign (Seminole War, second) and Cherokee Removal; survey notice, 1803; slave manifest, 1836; miscellaneous military documents, 1825,...

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World War I (WWI) panoramic photograph of Co. H, 117 Infantry, 30th Div. AEF.