Letters of W.O. McCall of the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment; Edward Jones from Lowry Station, Georgia; Philip G. Hilderbrand of the 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E., and others.

Letter from Martha Gamewell of Jackson, Tennessee, informing Lt. Patterson of the death and burial of his brother, 1863; letter describing farming and everyday life.

Letters of Sgt. F. Pridmore, 41st Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, Co. K., Buckner's Division, describe troop movements, army conditions, etc., in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Virginia. Transcriptions available.

The collection contains a single reminscence by M. A. Ryan entitled “Experience of a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison in the Civil War."

Papers of Scarbrough, a farmer of Webster County, Mississippi. Personal correspondence, accounts, promissory notes, tax receipts, and other business papers from Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Sumner (now Webster) Counties, Mississippi, Confederate military papers, memorabilia, and other papers of Scarbrough, his wife Sara (Wells) Scarbrough, and their sons, Charles Wells, R.G. and G.W. Scarbrough.

76 letters (1859-1865) of William E. Sykes to his wife, chiefly from northeast Mississippi Civil War campaign sites; statements, accounts, receipts, and other business papers (1858-1864), chiefly from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Transcriptions available.

The Daniel Williams family papers document the history of the family from 1823 to 1966, most notably Campbell “Cammie” Williams and his brother, Mims Williams. The papers consist of correspondence, Civil War tax documents, bills and account statements, contracts, newspaper clippings, genealogical material, essays, poetry, cards, and miscellany.

27 typescript letters of Lieutenant William H. Young of the 5th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Company B, to his wife in Carroll County, Mississippi, from Grenada, Greenwood, North Mississippi, and Camp Chase, Ohio, 1862-1865. Young died in prison in 1865.