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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:

Zoe Posey scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-251
Scope and Contents

Clippings related to Mississippi and Louisiana history, especially Confederate and 20th century, and Louisiana recipes. Posey was the daughter of Confederate captain Benjamin Lane Posey. The scrapbooks are indexed.

Dates: undated

Pridmore family Civil War letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-253
Scope and Contents

Letters of Sgt. F. Pridmore, 41st Regiment, Alabama Volunteers, Co. K., Buckner's Division, describe troop movements, army conditions, etc., in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Virginia. Transcriptions available.

Dates: 1862 - 1865

Mrs. Mary C. Rambo Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-256
Scope and Contents

Bill of sale for enslaved persons, 1 Civil War letter, permit for supplies and statement of purchases, 2 letters from Texas, 1 contract for share-cropping, letters concerning a War of 1812 pension which was cancelled because of sympathy with the Confederacy. Chiefly Tennessee.

Dates: 1843 - 1866

John A. Rawlins papers

 Collection
Identifier: USGPL-JAR
Dates: Majority of material found within 1859 - 1963

M. A. Ryan: Experience of a Confederate Soldier

 Collection — Box Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-261
Scope and Contents

The collection contains a single reminscence by M. A. Ryan entitled “Experience of a Confederate Soldier in Camp and Prison in the Civil War."

Dates: 1861 - 1865

James S. Saggus Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-117
Scope and Contents

Series of 49 articles written in 1965 for Jackson, Mississippi, newspaper, concerning the effects of the Civil War on government and life in Mississippi and concerning Mississippi's leaders during and after the war.

Dates: 1965

Samuel Andrew Agnew Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-100
Dates: 1847 - 1902

Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-574
Scope and Contents The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the...
Dates: 1850 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1992

Scales-Slaughter Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-656
Scope and Content

Recipes, photographs, books and publications, financial material, correspondence, scrapbook, and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1833 - 1968

James Scarbrough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-27
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