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Robert D. Pittman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-246
Scope and Contents

Collection includes Lee B. Hazlewood account and daybooks (1898-1907); Mary Person's autograph album (1851-1852 and undated); undated carte de visite of two girls taken in Memphis; three letters and a writing (undated) from W.S. Blount to his sister Betty Hazelwood concerning the Civil War service of their brother G.G. (George G. Blount) in the 15th Mississippi Infantry, Company B (Winona Stars); sheet music (placed with Music Collection).

Dates: 1851-1907 and undated
Found in: Manuscripts

Pridmore family Civil War letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-253
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1862 - 1865
Found in: Manuscripts

Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents

Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.

Dates: 1843 - 1866
Found in: Manuscripts

S. P. Raymond letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-29
Scope and Contents

1861 letter from Raymond of the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E (Verona Rifles), an ambulance driver who was killed at Battle of Atlanta and letter from soldier who re-buried him, 1866. Also tax receipts from Lee County, 1876-1877.

Dates: 1864, 1866, 1876-1877
Found in: Manuscripts

Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-574
Scope and Contents The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the...
Dates: 1850 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1992
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 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

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

A.J. Sykes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-68
Scope and Contents

The A.J. Sykes papers, 1865-1888, and 1966, contain copies of letters of A.J. Sykes and his wife, Mrs. Georgia Sykes, from the Civil War and post Civil War period, a letter from James Murdock Sykes to Mrs. Georgia Sykes re: estate business, and letters from Eugene Sykes to his brother and mother while a student at Mississippi A & M College. Also included are genealogy charts and newspaper articles.

Dates: 1865-1888, 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

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Correspondence. 5
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History. 5
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Family -- History. 2
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Aberdeen (Miss.) 1
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century. 1
African-Americans. 1
Antebellum. 1
Autograph albums. 1
Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 1
Bills of sale. 1
Clergy. 1
College students -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Columbus (Miss.) 1
Cookbooks. 1
Correspondence 1
Cotton trade -- Mississippi. 1
Deeds -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Deeds of trust. 1
Diaries. 1
Edisto Island (S.C.) 1
Elections -- Mississippi. 1
Family life -- Mississippi. 1
Florida. 1
Freemasonry. 1
Georgia. 1
Government correspondence 1
Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Iuka (Miss.) 1
Jackson (Miss.) 1
Land titles -- Mississippi. 1
Law 1
Lawyers. 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848. 1
Mississippi State University. 1
Muster rolls. 1
Native American history and society 1
Oktibbeha County (Miss.) 1
Permits. 1
Poems. 1
Politics -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Politics and Government 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Rome (Ga.) 1
Sawmills--Equipment and supplies 1
Sharecropping -- Mississippi. 1
Slavery 1
Slavery -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Slavery -- Mississippi. 1
South Carolina. 1
Southern States -- Politics and government. 1
Taxation -- Mississippi. 1
Taxes. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. 1
Westerly (R.I.) 1
Women. 1
World War II. 1
genealogies (histories) 1
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Names
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Adams, Henry Smith 1
Armstrong, J. Trooper 1
Ashe, Winifred 1
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Baptist family 1
Beachum, James M., 1842-1912 1
Bell, Rachel. 1
Bilisoly, Lucrece J. 1
Blount, George G. 1
Blount, W.S. 1
Browning, Irene 1
Buckley, R. E. 1
Campbell, C. H. 1
Carothers family 1
Church, Alonzo 1
Clarke, Peleg, Jr., 1819-1899 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
Creighton, Pauline Lynch Evans 1
Curtright, J.C. 1
Daly and McKee 1
Edwards, Edward D. 1
Eldredge, J. M., Mrs. 1
Gallaway, Alfred L., 1841-? 1
Gamewell, Martha. 1
Gardner, James H. 1
Hancock family 1
Harmann, T. J. C. 1
Hazelwood, Betty. 1
Hazlewood, Lee B. 1
Hilderbrand, Philip G. 1
Hill family 1
Hipple, Ella V. Smythe 1
Holmes family 1
Hooker, Joseph, General, 1814-1879 1
Hull family 1
Hutchinson, Mary, Mrs. 1
Kilby, Lucrese. 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
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 1
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 1
Lincoln, Thomas, 1778-1851 1
Lynch, James D. (James Daniel), 1836-1903 1
Magruder, H. A. 1
Marshall, John H. 1
Martin, George, 1844-1888 1
Martin, J.M. 1
McCall, W. O. 1
McClellan, George B., General (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McKinstry, Arthur, 1839-1862 1
McKinstry, Williard, 1815- 1
McPherson, James Birdseye 1
Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892 1
Nelson, L.E. 1
Osband, Embury D. 1
Oswalt family 1
Oswalt, Henry 1
Oswalt, James W. 1
Oswalt, Pamela A. 1
Person, Mary. 1
Peteet, Nancy. 1
Pridmore, Franklin 1
Princeton University 1
Rambo, Mary C. 1
Raymond, S.P. 1
Roby family 1
Sanders family. 1
Sanders, Anne Louise 1
Sanders, David L. 1
Sanders, Harry S. 1
Sanders, Kate 1
Sanders, William D. (William Davis) 1
Sanders, William L. 1
Sanders, William Lee 1
Sanders, Winifred 1
Sanders, Winifred A. 1
Sargent family. 1
Sargent, Harry B. 1
Sargent, Harry B. (Harry Barry) 1
Sargent, Henry B. (Henry Barry) 1
Sargent, Hilah E. (Hilah Estill) 1
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