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Levy Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-322
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, funeral notices, tax receipts, and poems pertaining to Levy, Holmes, Baptist, Carothers, Hull, and Roby families of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects include family affairs and the Civil War. Among the Civil War letters is a letter written at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1861.
Dates:
1837 - 1911
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Thornton family collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-282
Scope and Contents
Collection of the Solomon M. Thornton family of Georgia and Mississippi includes 2 legal papers, 9 Civil War letters, and other letters on family matters. Solomon M. Thornton (circa 1824-1864) served as a Captain in Co. B, 31st Mississippi Regiment in the Civil War, was wounded at Peachtree Creek, and probably killed at the Battle of Franklin. Included are six letters to his wife, Sarah F. Thornton (1829-1880), 1861-1864. Other Civil War letters include a long fragment of a letter from...
Dates:
1849-1895 and undated
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