1st-4th item: Diaries of Mr. Thomas Tate of Company Shops, North Carolina, later of Jackson, Tennessee, dated January 1, 1861 through December 31, 1866 The diaries deal mostly with Tate's work for the railroad, his personal accounting, and the weather with little detail, although some entries do include discussion of daily life and the Civil […]

Six (6) post Civil War ephemera including letters, some signed, from Jefferson Davis and CSA Cabinet Members Robert Toombs and John Reagan. 1st item: Jefferson Davis, former Confederate States of America (CSA) President, handwritten list of six members of the CSA cabinet, their roles, and their current location if living. Written in response to and […]

1st item: Civil War letter from J.K. Manally to Warham Easley Jr. and dated March 25, 1862. Manally was a member of the 37th Tennessee Regiment, Carroll's Brigade (CSA), and wrote the letter from camp near Iuka, Mississippi. In the letter he discusses "a rumor here that Columbus Georgia money is under par" and he […]

1st item: A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THE TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, by Cyrus Harris, engraved by Amos Doolittle, from "The American Universal Geography" by Jedidiah Morse, published by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, 1796. Copper plate engraving of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting early towns and roads, including Nashville and […]

1st Item: A MAP OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY AND THE TENNESSEE GOVERNMENT COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES, by Cyrus Harris, engraved by Amos Doolittle, from "The American Universal Geography" by Jedidiah Morse, published by Thomas and Andrews, Boston, 1796. Hand colored copper plate engraving of Kentucky and Tennessee depicting early towns and roads, including […]

1st item: CARTE DE LA FLORIDE, DE LA LOUISIANE ET PAY VOISINS. Hand-colored French map describing the Mississippi River Valley and surrounding areas including French forts, Native American villages, bodies of water, mountain ranges, and other areas of interest such as regions in North Texas and settlements west of New Orleans along the Gulf Coast. […]

1st item: AN ACCURATE MAP OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA BORDERING ON THE RIVER OHIO. Printed map describing New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Carolina, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Great Lakes as far as Lake Michigan. Tribal lands including those of the Cherokee, Miami, and Iroquois […]

1st item: A VIEW OF THE TOWN AND CASTLE OF ST AUGUSTINE AND THE ENGLISH CAMP BEFORE IT JUNE 20 1740 BY THOS SILVER. Early English printed map by Thomas Silver describing the siege of St. Augustine and including James Oglethorpe's (founder and then-Governor of the colony of Georgia) troops, war ships, and landmarks such […]