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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 S. Saggus Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents
Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.
Dates:
1965
Found in:
Manuscripts
Samuel Andrew Agnew Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-100
Dates:
1847 - 1902
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
Scales-Slaughter Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-656
Scope and Content
Recipes, photographs, books and publications, financial material, correspondence, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1833 - 1968
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
Carl Schurz collection
Collection
Identifier: FVW-CSZ
Scope and Content
The Carl Schurz collection is organized into three series. The first and most substantial series is a collection of correspondences mostly written by Carl Schurz himself. The collection is comprised mostly of original documents; however, some of the correspondences are also photocopies and have been noted as such in the breakdown. Other authors in the collection include Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles. The addressees of the letters are incredibly varied and range from other statesmen like...
Dates:
1857 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1857 - 1906
Shaw Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-12
Scope and Content
Papers of Thompson B. Shaw (1796-1854), plantation owner of Jefferson County, collected by the McKell and McCallum families.The Shaw family papers document the history of Jefferson County, Mississippi, planter Thompson Breckenridge Shaw (1796-1854) and his family. The collection includes Civil War letters, bills of sale for enslaved people, records of the cotton trade and the family plantation, a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, autograph books, daguerreotypes,...
Dates:
1818 - 1959
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
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Manuscripts
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. 43
- Diaries. 8
- Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- History. 7
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- Family -- History. 3
- Family life -- Mississippi. 3
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- Legal documents. 3
- Mexican War, 1846-1848. 3
- Poetry. 3
- Slavery -- Mississippi. 3
- United States--Foreign relations--1865-1898 3
- Aberdeen (Miss.) 2
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- Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels). 1
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- Cotton trade -- Mississippi. 1
- Cuba. 1
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- Diaries 1
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- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 9
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 4
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- Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926 3
- Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884 2
- 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
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