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Peyton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-115
Scope and Content

Photocopies of list of accounts and 11 letters (1768-1818) written by Thomas Jefferson, mostly to Craven Peyton (d. 1837), lawyer and landowner, of Albemarle County, Virginia; and correspondence and documents of the Peyton family of Virginia and Mississippi. Includes offer to sell a slave, Nov 27, 1818.

Dates: 1768 - 1916
Found in: Manuscripts

Pickens Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-245
Scope and Contents Materials collected and donated by Sue (Fannie Sue) Waller (1880-1968) include scattered documentation of the activities of her uncle, J. O. (John Oliver) Pickens (1814-1886), owner of sugar plantations in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Materials documenting Pickens include two Civil War receipts for money and coupons, accounts concerning assets in Texas (1867, 1885), New Orleans Sanitary and Fertilizing Company stock certificate (1872), patent for a cotton bale tie invented by...
Dates: 1864-1908, 1961 and undated
Found in: Manuscripts

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

Albert Quincy Porter Civil War Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-351
Scope and Contents

Porter, a regimental fifer with Company D, 22nd Regiment, describes a Confederate hospital in Montgomery, Alabama; battles around Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, and Marietta, Georgia; last months of the war in North Carolina and South Carolina. Copy.

Dates: undated
Found in: Manuscripts

William Walker Porter Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-707
Scope and Content

Civil war letters, grave marker dedicatory services program, and family reunion materials.

Dates: 1861 - 2012
Found in: Manuscripts

Zoe Posey scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-251
Scope and Contents

Clippings related to Mississippi and Louisiana history, especially Confederate and 20th century, and Louisiana recipes. Posey was the daughter of Confederate captain Benjamin Lane Posey. The scrapbooks are indexed.

Dates: 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

John A. Rawlins papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JAR
Dates: Majority of material found within 1859 - 1963

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

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Manuscripts 84
Ulysses S. Grant Collection 11
The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana 4
Mississippi Political Collections 3
 
Subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 82
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 43
Diaries. 8
Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History. 7
African-Americans. 6
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Agriculture. 6
Correspondence. 5
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 4
Business records. 3
Family -- History. 3
Family life -- Mississippi. 3
General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.) 3
Legal documents. 3
Mexican War, 1846-1848. 3
Poetry. 3
Slavery -- Mississippi. 3
United States--Foreign relations--1865-1898 3
Aberdeen (Miss.) 2
Bills of sale -- United States -- Forms. 2
College students -- Mississippi -- History. 2
Columbus (Miss.) 2
Formulas, recipes, etc. 2
Freemasonry. 2
Law 2
Mississippi--Genealogy 2
Pensions (compensation) 2
Politics -- Mississippi -- History. 2
Politics and Government 2
Politics and government -- 1865-1950 2
Politics and war 2
Southern States -- Politics and government. 2
Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History. 2
Wills. 2
genealogies (histories) 2
Advertising. 1
African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century. 1
Almanacs. 1
Antebellum. 1
Applications. 1
Art. 1
Artesia (Miss.) 1
Attala County (Miss.) 1
Attorneys general. 1
Autograph albums. 1
Bills of sale. 1
Biology 1
Blind -- Education -- History -- 19th century. 1
Brice's Crossroads, Battle of, Miss., 1864. 1
Business -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Business Records - - Mississippi - - Chickasaw County 1
Clay County (Miss.) 1
Clergy. 1
Clifton Plantation. 1
Clippings (information artifacts) 1
Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Photographs. 1
Color patches (military patches) 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels). 1
Confederate States of America. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th. Company E (Lowndes Co.). 1
Cookbooks. 1
Correspondence 1
Cotton farmers -- Mississippi. 1
Cotton trade -- Mississippi. 1
Cuba. 1
Deeds -- Mississippi -- Oktibbeha County. 1
Deeds of trust. 1
Diaries 1
Edisto Island (S.C.) 1
Education -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Education -- Mississippi. 1
Elections -- Mississippi. 1
Farm tenancy -- Mississippi -- History. 1
Farms and plantations -- Mississippi. 1
Florida. 1
Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 1
Frewsburg (N.Y.) 1
General -- United States -- Biography. 1
General -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 1
Georgia. 1
Ghosts 1
Government correspondence 1
Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863 1
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 1
Herpetology 1
Holmes County (Miss.) 1
Howard (Miss.) 1
Insurance policies. 1
Iuka (Miss.) 1
Jackson (Miss.) 1
Jamestown (N.Y.) 1
Japan. 1
Judges. 1
Land titles -- Mississippi. 1
Lawyers. 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Lee County (Miss.) 1
Leflore County (Miss.) 1
Legal correspondence 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination 1
Lumber industry. 1
Manchester (Ala.) 1
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Language
English 101
German 1
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 9
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 4
Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902 3
Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 3
Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 2
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Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912 2
Grant, Jesse Root, 1858-1934 2
Grant, U. S. (Ulysses S.), 1881-1968 2
Grant, Ulysses S., 1852-1929 2
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 2
11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H 1
17th Virginia Infantry 1
1st Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Company G 1
27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company A 1
Abbott and Howard (Holmes County, Miss.) 1
Abbott family. 1
Abbott, F. Marion 1
Abbott, Gertrude 1
Abbott, Harry 1
Abbott, Liberty C. 1
Abbott, Maria 1
Adams, Henry Smith 1
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
Bultema, James A. 1
Campbell, C. H. 1
Cantacuzene, Julia, Princess, 1876-1975 1
Carothers family 1
Catton, Bruce, 1899-1978 1
Cherry Creek (Miss.) 1
Chicago Historical Society 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. Harvey's Scouts 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
George, Elizabeth Brooks Young, 1827-1897 1
George, James Z. (James Zachariah), 1826-1897 1
Grant family, 1822- (President U. S. Grant) 1
Grant, Chapman, 1887-1983 1
Grant, Edith Root, 1878-1962 1
Grant, Elizabeth Chapman 1
Grant, Ida, 1854-1930 1
Grant, Jesse Root, 1794-1873 1
Halbert, Mabel White 1
Hammett family 1
Hancock family 1
Harmann, T. J. C. 1
Hays, Sophia Boyd, 1827-1910 1
Hazelwood, Betty. 1
Hazlewood, Lee B. 1
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