Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

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Four Civil War-era letters (two written on the same paper) written by Thomas Newton Beaty.

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...

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Original letters and transcriptions for letters written to Ann Stringfellow, Raccoon Ford, Culpepr Co, VA, 1831-1894, and to Robert Weir Hudson, in Texas, from family back in Noxubee County, MS, from 1873-1894. Also includes genealogical information and notes.

Scope and Content Farm and estate records of the Wallace family of Noxubee and Winston Counties, Mississippi include a journal which was kept by Isaiah Wallace in the 1830s. The balance of the collection includes account statements, promissory notes and other financial records, and modern history writings. In addition, an 1859 agreement mentions slave Harriet and an 1861 promissory note documents the hire of slave Barthuney. A cased tintype and photographic copy of same depicts James R. Wallace in April 1862...

Scope and Content Personal and business correspondence, accounts, receipts, deeds, slave records, tax receipts, military orders, genealogical material and other papers of the James Sykes family of Columbus, Mississippi. Includes letters from cotton brokers in West Point, Mississippi, Mobile, Alabama, St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana; letters from Alleghany Springs and Blue Ridge Springs, Virginia, and White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia; letters from Wildie and Ida Sykes at Patapsco Female...

Scope and Content Ten Civil War letters of the Wier family of Lowndes and Oktibbeha Counties, Mississippi, including: Five letters of James Benson Wier (1832-1863), surgeon, possibly of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry (Ashby's Company A) from Tennessee and Mississippi; two 1864 letters from Thomas C. Wier (1827-1920), a Chaplain with the 27th Mississippi Regiment, Company B, from Atlanta, Georgia; one civilian letter, probably of Mary Elizabeth Wier of Columbus, Mississippi, to her sister; letter of Abby Wier to...

Scope and Content Correspondence, diaries and journals, photographs, sermons and other church materials, receipts, memorials, poems and other writings, programs and other memorabilia, school materials, genealogical materials, clothing, publications and other materials documenting the lives and contributions of the extended family of Methodist minister Dr. T.C. (Thomas Coke) Wier (1827-1920), who served as presiding elder and pastor in Alabama and Mississippi churches from 1859-1906 and also served as...

Scope and Content 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...

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Letters, permits, passes, receipts, poem, steamer pack receipts, primarily from the Vicksburg, Mississippi, area.