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James Scarbrough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-27
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1822 - 1917
Found in: Manuscripts

Shaw Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-12
Scope and Content Papers of Thompson B. Shaw (1796-1854), plantation owner of Jefferson County, collected by the McKell and McCallum families.The Shaw family papers document the history of Jefferson County, Mississippi, planter Thompson Breckenridge Shaw (1796-1854) and his family. The collection includes Civil War letters, bills of sale for enslaved people, records of the cotton trade and the family plantation, a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, autograph books, daguerreotypes,...
Dates: 1818 - 1959
Found in: Manuscripts

J. A. Shingleur Letters

 Collection — Box: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Box 3
Identifier: MSS-266
Scope and Content

Sixteen letters written by J. A. Shingleur to his wife in Georgia from Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Also includes 4 letters written from the North after the war. Subjects include army life, family affairs, business.

Dates: 1863 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

W. J. Simmons Family Papers

 Collection — Box: Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-269
Scope and Contents

Two 1862 letters between Sally and G. W. (George Whitfield) Simmons; undated notes; war poetry, undated; essays, 1862 and undated; receipt. Copies.

Dates: 1859-1862, undated
Found in: Manuscripts

George Sledge Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-565
Scope and Content

Account of Stanford's Battery, Eldridges Battalion, Army of Tennessee, March, October 1864.

Dates: 1864
Found in: Manuscripts

Jeannine Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-731
Scope and Content This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...
Dates: 1735 - 2008
Found in: Manuscripts

George A. Smythe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates: 1836 - 1943
Found in: Manuscripts

Jesse Roderick Sparkman Civil War Diary

 Collection — Box: Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-273
Scope and Contents

Diary of Sparkman of Jeff Davis Legion, Company C, Mississippi Cavalry (Southern Guards), 1861-1865. Also Sparkman family data. Compiled by Mildred K. Holman.

Dates: 1860
Found in: Manuscripts

William Starling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-17
Scope and Content Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a...
Dates: 1854 - 1900
Found in: Manuscripts

H. A. Stephens Letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-71
Scope and Contents

Letter (1862) of Hubert Alonzo Stephens of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H (Chickasaw Guards) at Camp Fisher, Virginia, to his parents. Stephens died at Petersburg.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

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Aberdeen (Miss.) 2
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Lee County (Miss.) 1
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Mexican War, 1846-1848. 1
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Mississippi politics and government -- 1951- 1
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Native American history and society 1
New Orleans (La.) 1
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Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
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Agnew, Samuel Andrew 1
Andersonville Prison 1
Andrews, M.W. 1
Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
Ashe, Winifred 1
Babbit, C.W. 1
Baptist family 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Bell, Rachel. 1
Bethany Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church 1
Bilisoly, Lucrece J. 1
Blanchard family. 1
Blount, George G. 1
Blount, W.S. 1
Brigance, Louise Oliver 1
Brigance, Roy Shelby, 1927-2014 1
Browning, Irene 1
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
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, 1st 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, 14th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 1st 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 41st 1
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
Edwards, Edward D. 1
Eldredge, J. M., Mrs. 1
Erskine Theological Seminary 1
Forest, Nathan Bedford 1
French, Charles A., Sr., 1855-1922 1
French, John Byrd, 1925-1962 1
French, Oscar Oliver, 1858-1918 1
Gallaway, Alfred L., 1841-? 1
Gamewell, Martha. 1
Gardner, James H. 1
Gearhart, Birdie 1
Gearhart, Frances 1
Gearhart, Frank 1
Gearhart, Traver 1
Halbert, Mabel White 1
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Hays, Sophia Boyd, 1827-1910 1
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Hazlewood, Lee B. 1
Henry, Marcus L. 1
Hilderbrand, Philip G. 1
Hill family 1
Hill, James. 1
Hipple, Ella V. Smythe 1
Holman, Mildred K. 1
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Hutchinson, Mary, Mrs. 1
Ist Regiment, Engineer Troops, Army of Northern Virginia. 1
Jackson, Charles 1
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Joiner, Marcella Rose 1
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Jones, Peyton Tabb 1
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Kyle, John Curtis, 1851-1913 1
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Lawrenceville School (N.J.) 1
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