R. E. Wilbourn Collection

Genealogical material of the Wilbourn, Scott, Eggleston families of Kemper, Noxubee, and Yalobusha Counties, Mississippi; diary and message book kept by Captain R.E. Wilbourn (1838-1875), Chief Signal Officer, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia; letter regarding wounding of General Stonewall Jackson (1863); scrapbook of a later period containing letters from Senators Stennis and Walthall and Representative Ross A. Collins; photographs; miscellaneous antebellum documents; personal reminiscences of R.E. Wilbourn II and others, which give historical details concerning Wahalak and other communities in Kemper, Lowndes and Yalobusha Counties.