Hancock papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-207

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Exchange of letters between family members; 2 other pieces. Mississippi chiefly; also the Confederate Army in Virginia and North Carolina.

Dates

1856 - 1863

Creator

Hancock family (Creator, Family)

Access Restrictions

Open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions

Any requests for permission to publish, quote, or reproduce materials from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian for 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.

Extent

0.08 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Calendar

July 16, 1861. App W. Hancock, Winchester, Va., to Thomas P. Hancock and wife.

July 15, 1862. Thomas P. Hancock, Camp Lee, Richmond, Va., to wife.

Aug. 20, 1862. Julia Hancock, Fleetwood, Miss., to Thomas P. Hancock, Richmond, Va.

Sept. 5, 1862. Mollie Hancock (Mrs. Thomas P. Hancock) to husband.

Sept. 8, 1862. Same to same. (Date 1862 supplied from internal evidence.)

Sept. 13, 1862. Julia Hancock (wife of John Hancock), Walnut Hill, DeSoto County, Mississippi, to Thomas P. Hancock.

Sept. 14, 1862. Mollie Hancock, Walnut Grove, Miss., to husband.

Sept. 17, 1862. Same to same.

Oct. 13, 1862. Same to same.

Oct. 23, 1862. Same to same.

Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 1862. Thomas P. Hancock, Camp Mott, Richmond, Va., to wife.

Nov. 30, 1862. Same, Camp Liddell, Richmond, Va., to same.

?. 17, 1862. Thomas P. Hancock, n.p., to wife.

Jan. 22, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Goldsboro, N.C., to wife.

Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 1863. Same to same. (Dated 1862, but seems to be 1863).

Before Feb. 7, 1863. Two pages, n.p., n.d. Written before news of the death of his daughter, Sallie, reached him.

Feb. 7-9, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Goldsboro, N.C., to wife. Received news of the death of his daughter.

Feb. 22-23, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Tarboro, N.C., to wife.

Mar. 21-25, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Franklin, Va., to wife.

Mar. 28, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Camp near Blackwater River, Va., to wife.

Mar. 28, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Franklin, Va., to Fannie L. Hancock (his daughter).

Apr. 22-23, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Suffolk, Va., to wife.

June 14, 1863. Thomas P. Hancock, Fredericksburg, Va., to wife.

May 3, 1863 (?). Thomas P. Hancock, n.p., to wife. Pages 9-10 of a letter.

Masonic Papers. “John A. Hancock, Houston, Texas, 1856.”

“Civil War Echoes” by Mariann Hancock.