Autograph Album with pasted in Broadside and other ephemera related to CSA Capt. William H. Tabb, 14th Mississippi Co. G, Agency Rifles (b. 1837, killed in battle outside Atlanta, 1864). The album's signature collection was begun in 1860 as Tabb's Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN memory book and includes autographs of about 20 of his classmates in the Law School, most from Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama (not all pages are shown in our photographs; see list of all Cumberland Univ. autographs below). Some of the autographs are accompanied by oval photos on paper that appear to have been cut out from a larger source, and fill less than half of the album; the remainder becomes a scrapbook of pasted-in Confederate memorial related poems, newspaper clippings including the list of regiments captured at Fort Donelson (including the 14th Mississippi) and a small broadside in which Captain Tabb states he has been ordered to Whitefield, MS to enroll conscripts, receive volunteers, and arrest deserters in the counties of Winston, Chocktaw and Oktibbeha, dated Aug. 28, 1863. The book also includes 3 longhand copies giving an account of the battlefield death of Captain Tabb; the obituary of his baby brother Thaddeus, age 2; and his father Rev. Thomas Tabb (all copied by Tabb's nephew, late 1800s). Also included (tipped in) is "Special Order No. 30", Oct. 21, 1864, with reassignment order for special service for Adam Tooley Moore of the 28th Alabama Regt. (b. 1825- d. 1888), who married Tabb's sister Mollie. Moore is ordered to report to R. Mayrant at Headquarters, (Maj. Gen. Edward) Johnson's Division. Separate from this album is a fragment of a half-empty journal kept by William Henry Tabb while a student at Cumberland University. It mostly details his studies and social outings with his friends at the school. The Nov. 18, 1858 entry states "Went to the daguerreotype gallery and after dinner with Billy Cannon and Lewis Tabb to have our pictures taken. I did not get a good one but took one as it was my birthday and the twenty-first." Cumberland University Signatures include: Joseph A. Dew of Columbia TN (with photo); M. Caruthers; Minor B. Harris of Jackson, MS; T.(?); G. Mann of Brownsville TN (with photo); A.B. Washington of Memphis, TN; W.W. Humphries of Columbus, MS; A.M.A. Law; H. Bacon Estes of Columbia, TN: J.W. Randle of Aberdeen, MS (with photo); M.J. Vason of Albany, GA: David S. Goodloe of Canton, MS (with photo); Loui D. Henley of Pickensville, AL; Powhatan Maxey of Nashville, TN; Lee M. Ramsaur of Early Grove, MS (with photo); Charles Cossitt of Lagrange, TN; Alex Trotter of Quitman, MS; H.T. Norman of Lebanon, TN; R.H. Christmas of Clinton, MS; John Rayburn, AL; one photo that has come loose and is not attributed. Note: several of these young men went on to serve, and die, in the War, including Powhatan Maxey, Jr., the son of a Nashville mayor. He died in Nashville in 1864. Alex Trotter became 2nd Lt. of the 14th Mississippi, Company D, Quitman Invincibles. Joseph Dew served with the 26th Mississippi. (Source: Military History of Mississippi by Dunbar Rowland, 1908, Ancestry, NPS Civil War Soldiers Database). Note: this auction also includes multiple lots relating to the Tabb families, including an archive of letters with a tintype of W.H. Tabb and a lot of clothing with a shirt believed to have belonged to Tabb.

Album: wear and small losses to cover, binding intact. Pages toned. Broadside and all but one photograph are pasted down. One photograph loose and unidentified. Manigault's Special Order #30 is partially pasted down, signatures are not pasted. Some pages have been removed from the album. Journal is incomplete, lacking covers, with failing binding, pages toned.

The Estates of Thomas Maxfield and Sara McIntyre Bahner, by descent in the family of Mollie Tabb Moore, sister of Capt. William Henry Tabb and wife of A.T. Moore.