Making Music Jump Jim Crow Visualizing The War Samuel Bell Palmer ‘ A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
February 2017
Bleak House | Shades of Gray and Blue
The Persistence of Memory Reunions and Tourism Visualizing The War Samuel Bell Palmer ‘ A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Civil War Commemoration at the Tennessee Centennial | Shades of Gray and Blue
The 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, organized to celebrate the State of Tennessee’s 100th birthday, also featured several commemorations of the Civil War. Exhibits featured on the midway, known as Vanity Fair, included reproductions of the log cabin birthplaces of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, an “Old Plantation,” and The General, the locomotive famously commandeered by […]
Robert Loftin Newman | Shades of Gray and Blue
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In the Tennessee Mountains | Shades of Gray and Blue
The Persistence of Memory Commemorative Works of Art Holding Fast to Beauty Lucy Virginia Smith French ‘ A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Andrew Johnson in Masonic Regalia | Shades of Gray and Blue
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Dixie for the Union | Shades of Gray and Blue
Capturing the Flag Susan Brownlow ‘ A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Southern Cornfield | Shades of Gray and Blue
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Education of Young Women | Shades of Gray and Blue
Frances Matilda Batey, the maker of this sampler, was a graduate of Mr. and Mrs. Tolbert Fanning’s Franklin College, a girls’ academy founded in 1837 in Nashville, Tennessee. Academies were private schools serving a combination of day students and boarding students. Although samplers were usually made by school girls aged six to fifteen at female […]
Abraham Lincoln | Shades of Gray and Blue
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Oath of Allegiance | Shades of Gray and Blue
Taking Care of Business Perez Dickinson ‘ A website co-sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries, Middle Tennessee State University Walker Library, and the MTSU Center for Historic Preservation, with generous support from the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area.
Gates P. Thruston | Shades of Gray and Blue
Because Tennessee cities such as Memphis, Nashville, and Chattanooga were quickly occupied, some Union officers met sweethearts and married into southern society. Ohioan Gates P. Thruston met his future wife, Confederate sympathizer Ida Hamilton, in Nashville. Her father asked the well-mannered young captain for protection when their home was occupied by Union officers. Woodpecker Gorget. […]
Crawfish Springs Barbecue | Shades of Gray and Blue
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