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George F. Capps Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-166
Scope and Contents Letters of George F. Capps of Troy, Pike County, Alabama, to his wife Martha O. Capps from Alabama, Mississippi, and Ohio. Topics mentioned in an 1860 letter include his operation of a school for boys in Alabama, literary matters, and friends and family. Capps served in the Confederate Army in Company H, 42 Alabama Volunteer Infantry. His 1862 letters written from Mobile, Alabama, and Columbus and Artesia, Mississippi, concern the war, the surrounding countryside and conditions in Columbus,...
Dates: 1860 - 1869
Found in: Manuscripts

Tacitus T. Clay Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-176
Dates: 1836 - 1968
Found in: Manuscripts

Horace A. Derry Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-187
Scope and Contents

Daily record (March 26-October 1, 1862), by a native of Quincy, Massachusetts, in the U.S. Army during Virginia peninsula campaigns. Chiefly routine. Mentions the balloon several times. Also includes a furlough document.

Dates: 1862
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

Nathan Bedford Forrest - Jackson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-147
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of records held by the Chicago Historical Society concerning the activities of Forrest's Cavalry Corps in Mississippi and Tennessee include dispatches and accounts, 1862-1864. Collected by Charles Jackson.

Dates: 1862 - 1864
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

Mabel White Halbert Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-40
Scope and Contents

Revolutionary War pension applications, wills, Bible records, Civil War letters.

Dates: 1845 - 1956
Found in: Manuscripts

Hammett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-442
Scope and Contents

Legal papers, Confederate commission, record books of Confederate Veterans chapters, historical edition of Fayette Chronicle, 1904.

Dates: 1814 - 1920
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

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11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
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Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
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Andersonville Prison 1
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Bruce, Blanche Kelso 1
Buchanan, Margaret Ray , 1915-1995 1
Buckley, R. E. 1
Campbell, C. H. 1
Carothers family 1
Cherry Creek (Miss.) 1
Chicago Historical Society 1
Church, Alonzo 1
Clay, Tacitus T. 1
Cobb, Philipp 1
Columbus Chowder and Marching Society 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 41st 1
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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, 14th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 1st 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 46th 1
Creighton, Pauline Lynch Evans 1
Curtright, J.C. 1
Daly and McKee 1
Decell family 1
Derry, Horace A. 1
Duval, Mary Virginia, 1850-1930 1
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Erskine Theological Seminary 1
Forest, Nathan Bedford 1
French, Charles A., Sr., 1855-1922 1
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Hipple, Ella V. Smythe 1
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Ist Regiment, Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia. 1
Jackson, Charles 1
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Kyle, John Curtis, 1851-1913 1
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