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George Sledge Diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-565
Scope and Content
Account of Stanford's Battery, Eldridges Battalion, Army of Tennessee, March, October 1864.
Dates:
1864
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Manuscripts
Jeannine Smith Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-731
Scope and Content
This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...
Dates:
1735 - 2008
Found in:
Manuscripts
George A. Smythe Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents
These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates:
1836 - 1943
Found in:
Manuscripts
Jesse Roderick Sparkman Civil War Diary
Collection — Box: Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-273
Scope and Contents
Diary of Sparkman of Jeff Davis Legion, Company C, Mississippi Cavalry (Southern Guards), 1861-1865. Also Sparkman family data. Compiled by Mildred K. Holman.
Dates:
1860
Found in:
Manuscripts
William Starling Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-17
Scope and Content
Papers of William Starling (1839-1900), Union soldier and engineer for Mississippi River levee systems. Content includes: diaries containing descriptions of Starling's activities as a planter and engineer and of a tour of Holland; manuscript of a chapter of a novel, draft of a book on the U.S. Government, and index to literature and literary and historic figures; notebooks pertaining to Starling's student days at New York University and presenting observations on the Mississippi River and a...
Dates:
1854 - 1900
Found in:
Manuscripts
H. A. Stephens Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-71
Scope and Contents
Letter (1862) of Hubert Alonzo Stephens of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company H (Chickasaw Guards) at Camp Fisher, Virginia, to his parents. Stephens died at Petersburg.
Dates:
1862
Found in:
Manuscripts
John Marshall Stone letter book collection
Collection
Identifier: CPRC-JMS
Scope and Content
Volumes consist of letters, speeches, and correspondence from the time when John Marshall Stone was Governor of Mississippi, and when he ran for Senator of Mississippi. The volumes give examples of speeches given by Stone, issues he faced as Governor, such as Bimetallism, and Special Warrants, and his service in the Civil War. Fonds also include several loose documents placed within the pages of the volumes dating from Stone’s time in office.
Dates:
1893 - 1899
Found in:
Mississippi Political Collections
A.J. Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-68
Scope and Contents
The A.J. Sykes papers, 1865-1888, and 1966, contain copies of letters of A.J. Sykes and his wife, Mrs. Georgia Sykes, from the Civil War and post Civil War period, a letter from James Murdock Sykes to Mrs. Georgia Sykes re: estate business, and letters from Eugene Sykes to his brother and mother while a student at Mississippi A & M College. Also included are genealogy charts and newspaper articles.
Dates:
1865-1888, 1966
Found in:
Manuscripts
William E. Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-279
Scope and Contents
76 letters (1859-1865) of William E. Sykes to his wife, chiefly from northeast Mississippi Civil War campaign sites; statements, accounts, receipts, and other business papers (1858-1864), chiefly from Aberdeen, Mississippi. Transcriptions available.
Dates:
1856 - 1865
Found in:
Manuscripts
Isham W. Thomas Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-280
Scope and Contents
Nine letters (1862-1864) of Isham Weathersby Thomas of Stanford's Battery, Mississippi Light Artillery, from Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.
Dates:
1862 - 1864
Found in:
Manuscripts
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