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John Orde Creighton Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-181
Scope and Contents

Letters from John Orde Creighton to his mother, describing his life and surroundings as a voice student while studying in New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, San Francisco, California, and Vienna, under Miss Gelling, Percy Rector Stevens, Mrs. Sherwood, and Mr. Steiner. Also includes photographs and clippings.

Dates: 1915 - 1940
Found in: Manuscripts

Edward D. Edwards Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-118
Scope and Contents

Family correspondence, Bible records, property records and documents, concerning the family of Edward D. Edwards (1804-1861) of Choctaw County, Mississippi. Includes two Civil War letters of Knight Edwards (1844-1863), 4th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E (Stephens Guards) to his mother, 1863, from Vicksburg, enslaved persons lists, and lists of damages to property by General Grierson's forces.

Dates: 1831 - 1950
Found in: Manuscripts

Eldredge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-191
Scope and Contents

Diary, 1858; letters to H.A. Magruder of the Madison Light Artillery from his sister at Sharon, Mississippi (1861), and from R.T. Cheek, Madison Light Artillery (1864); J. Montgomery to his father A.V. Montgomery in Madison County, Mississippi, 1864; World War II letter, 1942. Transcriptions available.

Dates: 1858 - 1942
Found in: Manuscripts

Gardner (James H.) Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-38
Scope and Content Note

The James H. Gardner Collection contains business records from various Mississippians. Masonic Letters from the New Hope Lodge. Personal correspondences between several Gardners’. As well as a Civil War letter and a miscellaneous collection of papers, prescriptions, political advertisements and election materials-hand bills. The content is in the form of paper and Photostat.

Dates: 1846 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1890
Found in: Manuscripts

Hancock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-207
Scope and Contents

Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates: 1856 - 1863
Found in: Manuscripts

Guy Hester family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-64
Scope and Contents

Two Civil War letters (1862) of John M. Wood from Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and Port Hudson, Louisiana, to his wife.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

Hill family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-383
Scope and Contents

Diary; 5 letters from Charles W. Hill to his sister Abbie; clippings regarding Hill's Civil War experiences; receipt; envelope; photograph; wallet. During the Civil War Hill served in Company A of the 115th Illinois Volunteers.

Dates: 1821 - 1927
Found in: Manuscripts

Mrs. Mary Hutchinson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-301
Scope and Contents

Roll of Capt. J. C. Curtright' s Company (Civil War); clipping, "Chivalrous Capt. Curtright;" letter to Mrs. Curtright from J. N. Lennard, Oct. 27, 1862, telling of Curtright's wound and death; tax receipts.

Dates: 1847 - 1861
Found in: Manuscripts

Kincannon (Vann) collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-217
Scope and Contents

Letter from Colonel Swepson Taylor, Woodlawn, Mississippi, to C.W. Williams, Rienzi, Mississippi, and letter from William Taylor to his father from Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1861, 1864
Found in: Manuscripts

Leake County (Mississippi) Justice of the Peace records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-220
Scope and Contents

Records of Justice of the Peace W. P. White of Leake County, Mississippi, including receipts, correspondence regarding debts, summons, and advertising items. 60 items.

Dates: 1896 - 1902
Found in: Manuscripts

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Family -- History. 2
Lawyers. 2
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 2
Slavery -- Mississippi. 2
Aberdeen (Miss.) 1
Acetate film. 1
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century. 1
African-Americans. 1
Airborne troops. 1
Ammunition components. 1
Antebellum. 1
Artillery, Field and mountain 1
Artillery—History 1
Audiocassettes. 1
Autograph albums. 1
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Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 1
Bills of sale. 1
Black-and-white photographs. 1
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Brussels (Belgium) 1
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Dyersburg (Tenn.) 1
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Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. 1
Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863 1
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Natchez (Miss.) 1
Native American history and society 1
Newspapers -- Mississippi. 1
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
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Pensions (compensation) 1
Permits. 1
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Southern States -- Politics and government. 1
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11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Agnew, E. 1
Ames, Sarah J. 1
Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
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Ashe, Winifred 1
Baptist family 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Beauvoir plantation. 1
Bell, Rachel. 1
Bilisoly, Lucrece J. 1
Blount, George G. 1
Blount, W.S. 1
Bonds, W.W. 1
Brown and Frazer 1
Brown, R.B. 1
Browning, Irene 1
Buckley, R. E. 1
Campbell, C. H. 1
Carlton, H. 1
Carothers family 1
Church, Alonzo 1
Clay, Tacitus T. 1
Cobb, Philipp 1
Columbus Chowder and Marching Society 1
Columbus Chowder and Marching Society--Photographs 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 41st 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 28th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 5th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 41st 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 46th 1
Connelly, J.K. 1
Creighton, John Orde 1
Creighton, Pauline Lynch Evans 1
Curtright, J.C. 1
Daly and McKee 1
Davis, Jefferson, Mrs. 1
Edwards, Edward D. 1
Eldredge, J. M., Mrs. 1
Forbes, C.B. 1
Forrest, Jos. F. 1
Gallaway, Alfred L., 1841-? 1
Gamewell, Martha. 1
Gammill, Williamson 1
Gardner, James H. 1
Gilliam, L. 1
Givehan, James M. 1
Goode, Jno. W. 1
Hancock family 1
Harmann, T. J. C. 1
Harris, Thomas W. 1
Hayes, Margaret 1
Hazelwood, Betty. 1
Hazlewood, Lee B. 1
Hilderbrand, Philip G. 1
Hill family 1
Hipple, Ella V. Smythe 1
Holmes family 1
Hull family 1
Hunt, A. 1
Hutchinson, Mary, Mrs. 1
Johnnie, Byrd, Col. 1
Kilby, Lucrese. 1
Kimbrough family. 1
Kimbrough, A.McC. 1
Laird, Henry 1
Lanson, P.B. 1
Latta, Samuel Rankin 1
Lawrenceville School (N.J.) 1
Lee family. 1
Lee, A.C. (Alonzo Church) 1
Lee, E.A. (Elvira Anne) 1
Lee, Louise C. (Louise Clary) 1
Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill) 1
Lee, W.H. (William Hollinshed) 1
Lee, William States 1
Lende, Maud 1
Lennard, J.N. 1
Levy family 1
Liszt Society 1
Lynch, James D. (James Daniel), 1836-1903 1
Lyric Club 1
Magruder, H. A. 1
Mahan, J.C.M. 1
Malloy family 1
Marshall, John H. 1
Martin, George, 1844-1888 1
Martin, J.M. 1
McCall, W. O. 1
McGeoy family. 1
McKillop and Wood 1
McLaurin family. 1
McNeese State University 1
McPherson, James Birdseye 1
Merritt, Eliza 1
Miller & Kilpatrick 1
Miller, Hugh R. 1
Mississippi State University 1
Montgomery, W.L. 1
National War College (U.S.) 1
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