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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Levy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-322
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, funeral notices, tax receipts, and poems pertaining to Levy, Holmes, Baptist, Carothers, Hull, and Roby families of Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, and Virginia. Subjects include family affairs and the Civil War. Among the Civil War letters is a letter written at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in 1861.

Dates: 1837 - 1911
Found in: Manuscripts / Levy Family Papers

Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-LLBC
Scope and Content Note This collection contains the research notes of Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton, biographers of Ulysses S. Grant and historians of te Civil War era. Subjects covered include Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William T. Sherman, the Mexican-American War, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, the Presidency, West Point, Grant's World Tour. Types of material found in this collection include: hand-written and typed research notes, correspondence, including originals dating back to the 1850s and...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1840 - 1967
Found in: Ulysses S. Grant Collection / Lloyd Lewis and Bruce Catton research notes collection

James D. Lynch Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-8
Scope and Contents

Collection contains correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, poetry, newspaper clippings and other material documenting the life and work of James D. Lynch. Also includes correspondence and other materials documenting the life and activities of Pauline Lynch Evans Creighton, daughter of James D. Lynch and Hettie M. Cochran, a suffragist and public health advocate and activist in Austin, TX in the early 20th century, and an manuuscript copy of the memoir of Lightning Ellsworth.

Dates: 1862 - 1903
Found in: Manuscripts / James D. Lynch Papers

John H. Marshall Civil War letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-406
Scope and Contents

Twenty-three letters of John H. Marshall, 1862-1865, of the 41st Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company L (Okolona Guards) to his wife, Ellen Jane Sanders Marshall, living near Nettleton (Monroe County), Mississippi describing campaigns in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. Photoprints and transcriptions available.

Dates: 1862 - 1865
Found in: Manuscripts / John H. Marshall Civil War letters

Sallie B. McRae diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-227
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of McRae’s diary, January-June 1862, edited by James W. Webb.

Dates: 1862
Found in: Manuscripts / Sallie B. McRae diary

Joab Mobley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.495
Scope and Contents The Joab Mobley family papers include two letters, three muster rolls and one historic roll from Company K of the First Mississippi Cavalry, an 1886 leaflet titled “Predestination: A Light in Dark Places,” and a booklet, Drake’s American Receipt Book: A Calendar Almanac for 1867-1868. The letters, dated the 25th and 28th of June 1851, are correspondence between Joab Mobley in Artesia, Mississippi, and his brother, C. Cox Mobley, in Yazoo City, regarding the state of crops and the question of...
Dates: 1851 - 1886
Found in: Manuscripts / Joab Mobley Family Papers

Moreton and Decell family genealogical records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-55
Scope and Contents

The Moreton family of America, and other papers; the Decell Bible record; certificate stating A. E. Moreton's Confederate service. Photocopies.

Dates: 1958-1969 and undated
Found in: Manuscripts / Moreton and Decell family genealogical records

Wiley Norris Nash papers

 Collection
Identifier: CPRC-013
Scope and Contents This collection contains two boxes. Box 1 holds folders 1-29 and Box 2 holds folders 30-32. A new inventory was taken of the collection in 2015. During the new inventory, folders were labeled according to the first inventory's headings. A graduate student checked the folders to make sure the folders corresponded with the inventory.The collection contains Correspondence from family, friends, and clients in Mississippi, Alabama, and Washington State relating chiefly to legal...
Dates: 1872 - 1924
Found in: Mississippi Political Collections / Wiley Norris Nash papers

Lillian Neilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-419
Scope and Content Journals, financial records, correspondence, photographs, family history, and miscellany, mostly pertaining to James C. Neilson, a Lowndes County, Mississippi, farmer, Mississippi state legislator, and Grange member. Among the topics in his journals are freedmen's accounts, race relations, church, the Grange, the legislature, an arson trial, and his family. Also included are the 1962 journal of Sarah Neilson, which mentions the riots at the University of Mississippi; a history of the Boykin...
Dates: 1829 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts / Lillian Neilson Collection

North Mississippi Probate and Chancery Court Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-352
Scope and Content

Probate and Chancery Court records, tax receipts, estate expense reports, and other legal documents, most from Itawamba County, 1836-1911, as well as miscellaneous other material dating from 1911-1971. Pontotoc, Calhoun, and Tishomingo counties are also represented, and there is some material concerning Limestone County, Alabama. Finally, there is one photocopy of Civil War letter from Thomas Whitesides to James Bullard, 4/27/1861. Donated by Randy Sparks, 1980-81.

Dates: 1836 - 1971
Found in: Manuscripts / North Mississippi Probate and Chancery Court Records Collection

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