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U.S. Flag given to Susan Brownlow by the Ladies of Philadelphia, June 13, 1862 for her courageous defense of the flag flown over the Brownlow home in Knoxville – Civil War Shades
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Poynor Armless Sewing Rocker – Civil War Shades
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Polk Place Interior – Civil War Shades
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Photographs of Joseph Mabry III, and Joseph Mabry, II – Civil War Shades
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Don Carlos Buell (1818-1898) – Civil War Shades
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Hanging of Fry and Hensie near the Railroad, by Colonel Leadbetter – Civil War Shades
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Lesson Plans – Civil War Shades
For each of the thematic sections of Shades of Gray and Blue: Reflections of Life in Civil War Tennessee, a lesson plan is included. The plans can be downloaded in pdf format and copied and distributed for classroom use. All images on the website may be printed out as low-resolution files and used for educational […]
McKissack House, Spring Hill, Tennessee – Civil War Shades
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Albert Sidney Johnston – Civil War Shades
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Home after War, Showing Fort and Ditches – Civil War Shades
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Education of Young Women – Civil War Shades
Batey, Frances Matilda (1842-1926). Frances Matilda Batey Sampler, 1862. Tennessee Sampler Survey. View Object Details 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 […]
Robert Loftin Newman – Civil War Shades
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Reunions and Tourism – Civil War Shades
During the 1870s, veterans of the Civil War began to reunite, often on days set aside to decorate soldiers’ graves. Usually held in May, participants in these commemorations adorned cemetery graves with flowers and flags, inspiring what we celebrate nationally as Memorial Day. However, it was not until the late 1880s, about twenty-five years after […]