The Boys Who Went to War from Cumberland University: 1861-1865

This book is a combination of two original autograph books, with photographs, compiled by a student at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. This collection of albumen images of Civil War participants represents one of the largest of its kind. It is not often that pictures of two specific militia units (Lebanon Greys and Wilson Blues) of a town and county, have been preserved and readily identified. These two militia groups eventually became elements of Companies H and K of the 7th Tennessee Infantry. Capsule biographies relating the fascinating stories of these students and faculty members have been gathered from files maintained at the National Archives and Records Administration. This information revealed that not all of "The Boys" fought for the Confederate cause, but a few were "Unionists & Neutrals", and some only "Sympathizers". Here is a unique chapter of Tennessee history!