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<p align="center"><strong>American Civil War, 1861-1865</s></p>

<img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1078/type/native/viewcontent" alt="Nashville General Hospital No. 15" height="550" width="auto" vspace="50" hspace="50" align="left">

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Tennessee may have been the most divided state in the Civil War, for its different regions and competing ideologies battled over whether to join other Southern states in seceding or to remain in the Union. The state was the last to join the Confederacy, despite the fact that many regions (most notably East Tennessee) remained enthusiastically supportive of the Union. From 1861 to 1865 the state was ravaged by the war as Confederate and Union forces fought over 3200 battles and skirmishes here. During the Tennessee Sesquicentennial Celebration (2011-2015), TSLA will feature one exhibit a year covering the events of the Civil War in Tennessee. Featured in the current exhibit are photographs, dating from May 1865 to the 1920s, of some of the war’s veterans.

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<sub><i>Nashville General Hospital No. 15, Division 1, May 9, 1865. Library Photograph Collection, ID: 3250</i></sub>

Confederate Veterans

<img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1079/type/native/viewcontent" alt="Five Confederate Veterans" height="450" width="auto" hspace="50" vspace="50" align="right">

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Pictured second from left, Claudius Buchanan was from Williamson County and enlisted in Company D of the 20th Tennessee Regiment. During the Battle of Missionary Ridge, he was captured by the Union Army and sent to Rock Island Prison Camp in Illinois.

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<p align="right"><i><sub>Five Confederate Veterans, (men pictured include Billy Nolen, Joe Couch, and Claudius Buchanan). Library Photograph Collection, ID: 4798</i></p></sub>

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<img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1080/type/native/viewcontent" alt="Six Confederate Veterans, 1923" height="500" width="auto" hspace="50" vspace="50" align="left"><br>

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This April 23, 1923, reunion may have been in New Orleans.

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<i><sub>Six Confederate Veterans. Library Photograph Collection, ID: 4797</i></sub>

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<img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1081/type/native/viewcontent" alt="John B. Kennedy" height="500" width="auto" hspace="50" vspace="50" align="right">

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John B. Kennedy was a private in the Confederate Army with Company A of the 3rd Tennessee Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at Chickamauga and at Jonesboro, Georgia. Kennedy was one of the six original organizers of the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in the Pulaski law office of Major Thomas M. Jones, and he would be the last of the six founders to die.

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<p align="right"><i><sub>John B. Kennedy with his Third Regiment Flag. Library Photograph Collection, ID: 2294</i></p></sub>

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<p align="center"><img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1082/type/native/viewcontent" alt="1922 Reunion, Culleoka, Tenn." height="450" width="auto" hspace="5" vspace="10" align="center"><img src="https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/context/tennesseeveterans/article/1083/type/native/viewcontent" alt="1923 Reunion" height="450" width="auto" vspace="10" hspace="5" align="center"></p>

<p align="center"><i><sub>Veterans Reunion, January 24, 1922, Culleoka, Tenn. John P. Hickman Civil War Collection, ID: 42808</i></sub></p>

<p align="center"><i><sub>Veterans Reunion, August 11, 1923, Springfield, Tenn. John P. Hickman Civil War Collection, ID: 42807</i></p></sub>

<p align="center"><strong><a href="https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/global/pages/index.html">Search for more materials regarding the Civil War in Tennessee in the Tennessee Virtual Archive (TeVA)</a></s></p>

  • Nashville General Hospital, No. 15, Division 1, May 9, 1865

    Nashville General Hospital, No. 15, Division 1, May 9, 1865

  • Five Confederate veterans

    Five Confederate veterans

  • Six Confederate veterans

    Six Confederate veterans

  • John B. Kennedy, Pulaski, Tenn.

    John B. Kennedy, Pulaski, Tenn.

  • Veterans reunion, 1922, Culleoka, Tenn.

    Veterans reunion, 1922, Culleoka, Tenn.

  • Veterans Reunion, 1923, Springfield, Tenn.

    Veterans Reunion, 1923, Springfield, Tenn.

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