Scope and Content Letters, travelers' accounts, estate records, slave lists, business records, military records, waybills, photographs, rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, publications, artifacts and audiovisual materials collected by Dr. Todd A. Herring. The collection documents Mississippi and Louisiana plantation culture and history with records from Natchez and Adams County, and towns and communities in Jefferson, Claiborne and Wilkinson Counties. A smaller series documents North Mississippi and Alabama...

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"Civil War Adventures," a reminiscence written in 1869 "from memoranda kept in camp," and covering the experiences of E.E. Livaudais of the Orleans Guards, Company B, during the years 1862-1864. Includes French original version and typed translation.