Description: The Greek Revival capitol building of Tennessee was built over a period of 14 years starting in 1845. The architect of the building, William Strickland, died before the building was complete and is entombed in the northeast wall of the building. There are several monuments on the ground: Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Alvin York and the tomb of James K. Polk to honor the three Tennessee residents who served as President of the United States. The Charles Warterfield Reliquary also sits on the grounds and is comprised of a group of broken limestone columns and fragments from the former Tennessee State Prison. This image shows the front facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_549
Subjects: Capitols--Tennessee; National Register of Historic Places; Greek Revival
Places: Nashville (Tennessee); 600 Charlotte Ave.
 

Description: Official program for the homecoming football game between Tennessee State College and Wilberforce University played on October 26, 1946 at Wilberforce Stadium. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F05_01
Subjects: Wilberforce University; Tennessee State College; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Tennessee
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of President Andrew Johnson, from the Sherman Family Photograph Collection, ca. 1865-1880. Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808. After moving to Tennessee, he served several terms in the state legislature from 1835 to 1837 and from 1839 to 1843. In 1843, Tennessee voters elected Johnson to the U.S. House of Representatives, a seat he held for a decade. Johnson won the Tennessee governor's race in 1852 and held this position from 1853 until 1857. He was chosen as Abraham Lincoln's vice-presidential candidate in 1864, and became President of the United States on April 15, 1865, upon the assassination of Lincoln. He was reelected for a second term and served until March 4, 1869. He died on July 31, 1875, in Elizabethton, Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04256
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Vice-Presidential candidates--United States; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: Tennessee; Washington D.C.
 

Description: The Wheeler Dam is maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It impounds the Tennessee River and forms Wheeler Lake. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F11_011_001
Subjects: Wheeler Dams--Ohio--1930-1940. Tennessee Valley Authority; Tennessee River; Wheeler Lake (Ala.)
Places: Alabama
 

Description: This map shows the Field of Shiloh in Tennessee, and outlines the movements of the Army of the Tennessee. The map features the Tennessee River along the bottom border. The top of the map has a north arrow, a scale, and a legend describing the lines for movements on the morning and night of April 6th, 1862. The Battle of Shiloh lasted from April 6-7, 1862, and was the bloodiest battle to date of the U.S. Civil War. This map was originally printed in the personal memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, published in two volumes in 1885. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04289
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Illustration of the recapture of Union artillery at Shiloh Church, near Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on Monday, April 7, 1862, as published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, took place April 6-7, 1862 in Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04610
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Battlefields; Churches; Soldiers
Places: Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee)
 

Description: Mounted photograph depicting Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and his staff in the field during the Civil War. McCook, one of "The Fighting McCooks" from Carrollton, Ohio, is seated in the center and flanked by officers on both sides. A soldier standing behind the seated officers is holding the flag of the 20th Army Corps. There is no photographer's mark on the mount. A caption written in pencil below the image states "Maj Gen McCook & Staff 1863." The photograph was likely taken in Tennessee when McCook was commanding the 20th Corps during the Tennessee Campaign. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5814
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; McCook family; Military officers; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: James Knox Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, was born in North Carolina on November 2, 1795. After studying to become a lawyer, he entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat. Polk served in the Tennessee state legislature, the United States House of Representatives, and as Governor of Tennessee. In the 1844 presidential election, he defeated Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for president. During his administration, Polk oversaw the founding of the United States Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, lowered tariffs, and acquired California, New Mexico, and Oregon. His most notable accomplishment was leading the United States to victory in a war with Mexico over the annexation of Texas. James Polk died on June 15, 1849, three months after leaving office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04169
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Mexican War, 1846-1848
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Wyatt Ceutevry View Camera Norris Dam, near Knoxville TN" The Norris Dam is maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority. It impounds the Clinch River and forms Norris Lake. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F11_009_001
Subjects: Norris Dams--Ohio--1930-1940. Clinch River (Va. and Tenn.); Norris Lake; Tennessee Valley Authority.
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Chalk portrait, dated ca. 1870, depicting nineteen year old Private (James) Perry Bull of the 92nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The portrait is based on an earlier photograph taken of Bull, who was killed on November 25, 1863, at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Battle of Missionary Ridge was part of the Chattanooga Campaign of October and November 1863, and the victory of Union forces over Confederate troops led to Union control of the key state of Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H27047
Subjects: United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 92nd (1862-1865); Portraits; Civil War 1861-1865;
Places: Ohio; Chattanooga (Tennessee);
 

Description: The Tennessee Flag of 1960-1970 has a red field with a small white strip and a larger blue strip on the fly. It has a blue circle with three white stars in the center. The three stars represent the three Grand Divisions in the state and the white circle around them represents the unity of these three divisions. The flag is rectangular, measuring 90 by 152 cm and is made of cotton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65267_001
Subjects: State Flags; Flags--support; Communication artifacts; Ceremonial artifact
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the U.S. forces under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Surveyed and constructed under direction of Captain C. B. Comstock, U.S. Engineers. Drawn by Charles Spangenberg, Assistant Engineer, Head Quarters of the Department of the Tennessee. Note: Relief shown by hachures. Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively. Detailed map showing roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit." Scale [ca. 16,800]. (not "four inches to one mile"). The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict. The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_Siege_Vicksburg_Miss
Subjects: Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863--Maps. United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi); Warren County (Mississippi)