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Wirt Adams Cavalry Regiment, Company E, roster

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-462
Scope and Contents

Civil War roll, minutes, letters of 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Company E, 1863-1865; clippings, 1981, poster, 1989.

Dates: 1863-1865, 1981, 1989
Found in: Manuscripts

W.C. Graham Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-203
Scope and Contents

Muster roll of W.C. Graham's Company, April-May 1865; payroll and discharge, May 16, 1865; graduation diploma, Baptist Female Seminary, Pontotoc, Mississippi, and valedictory address of Jennie L. Gaulding, 1873.

Dates: 1865, 1873
Found in: Manuscripts

Hugh R. Miller Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-35
Scope and Contents

A small quantity of letters written to Judge Hugh R. Miller of Pontotoc, Mississippi, on a variety of topics, mostly about matters of real estate or probate. Notable pieces include two very long letters from a widow named Eliza Merritt detailing the harassment of herself, her family and her enslaved persons by a man named Green Merritt (possibly one of her in-laws) and his enslaved persons.

Dates: 1834 - 1879
Found in: Manuscripts

Parker family Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-238
Scope and Contents

Letters of W.O. McCall of the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment; Edward Jones from Lowry Station, Georgia; Philip G. Hilderbrand of the 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company E., and others.

Dates: 1863 - 1864
Found in: Manuscripts

Patterson Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-239
Scope and Contents

Letter from Martha Gamewell of Jackson, Tennessee, informing Lt. Patterson of the death and burial of his brother, 1863; letter describing farming and everyday life.

Dates: 1855 - 1892
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

Rev. Henry Rodney Raymond Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-14
Scope and Content

Collection contains materials documenting the life and professional work of Henry Rodney Raymond as well as his daughter, Marcia Elizabeth “Bessie” Raymond Owen and son-in-law Jesse Thomas Owen. Includes correspondence, photographs, sermons, manuscript copies of church services and marriage ceremonies, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials.

Dates: 1850 - 1947
Found in: Manuscripts

M. A. Ryan: Experience of a Confederate Soldier

 Collection — Box: Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-261
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a single reminscence by M. A. Ryan entitled “Experience of a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison in the Civil War."

Dates: 1861 - 1865
Found in: Manuscripts

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

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Choctaw Grays Camp, Records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-598
Scope and Content

Records from the Choctaw Grays division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1996. Included are membership applications, publications, VHS cassette, genealogical materials from some Confederate soldiers' families. The Choctaw Grays are now disbanded.

Dates: 1996
Found in: Manuscripts

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