Joab Mobley Family Papers

The Joab Mobley family papers include two letters, three muster rolls and one historic roll from Company K of the First Mississippi Cavalry, an 1886 leaflet titled “Predestination: A Light in Dark Places,” and a booklet, Drake’s American Receipt Book: A Calendar Almanac for 1867-1868. The letters, dated the 25th and 28th of June 1851, are correspondence between Joab Mobley in Artesia, Mississippi, and his brother, C. Cox Mobley, in Yazoo City, regarding the state of crops and the question of marriage. The muster rolls document the presence and/or status of the men of Company K of Wood’s Regiment in the First Mississippi Cavalry during the last years of the Civil War, from the winter of 1863 to the spring of 1865. For each man, the date and location of enlistment is included. For those not marked present, there are details about when and where they were wounded, taken prisoner, sent on another assignment, etc. The historic roll was compiled after the war and includes these same details; it is undated. Along with the rolls is a scrap on which the compiler apparently gathered his notes, as it contains the same information that is recorded on the historic roll, such as “Deserted to Enemy,” “Transferred,” etc.

The letters, the “Deserted to Enemy” list, and the muster rolls have been transcribed and copies of the transcriptions are in Miscellaneous Box 25.