James Scarbrough Papers
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
Extent
.66 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Mr. T. W. Scarbrough of Calhoun City, Mississippi.
Processing Note
This finding aid is currently in progress. Please contact sp_coll@library.msstate.edu for more information.
From 2018 update: Folders were previously labeled “27-I-A through “27-IV-A” and have been relabeled to modern standards. Materials housed in folders retain markings of previous labeling system.
- African-Americans.
- Business Records - - Mississippi - - Chickasaw County
- Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 24th. Company C. (Dowd Rebels).
- Confederate States of America. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th. Company E (Lowndes Co.).
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Title
- James Scarbrough Papers
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- ArchivesSpace shell by Carrie P. Mastley, 2022; collection originally processed by Special Collections staff in the 1970s, updated by Jenifer Ishee in 2018, AS updated by Jennifer McGillan in 2023.
- 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