Collection, 1864-1885.

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Collection, 1864-1885.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28348592

Consists of the following materials collected by Mr. Norvell Rose of Nashville, Tennessee: a Confederate bond for $100.00 belonging to J.F. Rose, an invitation to Polk Place, the home of Mrs. James K. Polk, and a picture of William Walker.

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Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA

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Polk, Sarah Childress, 1803-1891

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Sarah Childress Polk was married to the 11th President of the United States, James Polk. She served as First Lady from 1845 to 1849. Elder daughter of Captain Joel and Elizabeth Childress, Sarah Childress gained something rarer from her father’s wealth. He sent her and her sister away to school, first to Nashville, then to the Moravians’ “female academy” at Salem, North Carolina, one of the very few institutions of higher learning available to women in the early 19th century. So she acquired ...

Rose, Norvell.

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Rose, J. F.

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Walker, William, 1824-1860

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William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". Walker usurped the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857,[1] when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He returned in an attempt to ...