Isaac E. Hirsh Papers
Scope and Content
Typed manuscript entitled Company "G", 22nd Mississippi Infantry by Alice Hirsh. Photocopies of letters exchanged in 1953 by Dr. J. K. Bettersworth and Miss Hirsh. The manuscript gives the account of Isaac Hirsh, a German youth, who immigrated to U.S. in 1851, located in Sidon, Mississippi, volunteered for duty in Black Hawk Rifles, and served 4 years in Confederate Army. It also tells of elections in Carroll County, Mississippi, during Reconstruction, gives information regarding floods and levees, and gives much local history on Carroll County and Sidon.
Dates
- ca. 1860s
Conditions Governing Access
None.
Rights Statement
Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Division of Archives & Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Mississippi State University as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical Note
Isaac E. Hirsh, dry goods merchant, was born in 1836 in Wurttemberg, Germany, and immigrated to America as a young man. In America, he lived in Buffalo, N.Y. for about 5 years before moving to Sidon, Miss., in 1857. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted in Confederate Army (Black Hawk Rifles, known as Co. G, 22nd Miss. Infantry). He married in 1869 and left the South few years later. After living in Iowa, Illinois, and Brooklyn, NY, Hirsh finally settled in New Hampshire. He married Thekla, Rothschildand together they had several children including Emmett, Louis, Alice and Edward.
Source: Confederate Veteran, May, 1911; Isaac E. Hirsh Papers, p. 158; Federal Census 1860-1910.
Extent
.08 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
System of Arrangement
Materials are arranged chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Alice Hirsh.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
Processing Note
Materials enclosed in archival-quality folders and box.
Processing Note
This finding aid is currently in progress. Please contact sp_coll@library.msstate.edu for more information.
Processing Note
Processed by MSB in 1971.
- Title
- Isaac E. Hirsh Papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Revised by Carrie P. Mastley in Summer 2024.
- Date
- January 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts Repository