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

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Andrew Agnew Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-100
Dates: 1847 - 1902
Found in: Manuscripts / Samuel Andrew Agnew Collection

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
Found in: Manuscripts / Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers

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
Found in: Manuscripts / Scales-Slaughter Family Papers

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
Found in: Manuscripts / James Scarbrough Papers

Shaw Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-12
Scope and Content Papers of Thompson B. Shaw (1796-1854), plantation owner of Jefferson County, collected by the McKell and McCallum families.The Shaw family papers document the history of Jefferson County, Mississippi, planter Thompson Breckenridge Shaw (1796-1854) and his family. The collection includes Civil War letters, bills of sale for enslaved people, records of the cotton trade and the family plantation, a scrapbook, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, autograph books, daguerreotypes,...
Dates: 1818 - 1959
Found in: Manuscripts / Shaw Family Papers

J. A. Shingleur Letters

 Collection — Box Miscellaneous Manuscripts Box 3
Identifier: MSS-266
Scope and Content

Sixteen letters written by J. A. Shingleur to his wife in Georgia from Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Also includes 4 letters written from the North after the war. Subjects include army life, family affairs, business.

Dates: 1863 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts / J. A. Shingleur Letters

W. J. Simmons Family Papers

 Collection — Box Misc. MSS Box 3
Identifier: MSS-269
Scope and Contents

Two 1862 letters between Sally and G. W. (George Whitfield) Simmons; undated notes; war poetry, undated; essays, 1862 and undated; receipt. Copies.

Dates: 1859-1862, undated
Found in: Manuscripts / W. J. Simmons Family Papers

George Sledge Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-565
Scope and Content

Account of Stanford's Battery, Eldridges Battalion, Army of Tennessee, March, October 1864.

Dates: 1864
Found in: Manuscripts / George Sledge Diary

Jeannine Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-731
Scope and Content This collection centers around Artesia, Mississippi, a small town in Lowndes County that is best known as the junction point for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Throughout its history, the town has had several historical points of interest, including Civil War hospitals, political uprisings, hay festivals, and famous restaurants. The collection contains history of the town and genealogical materials regarding local families, as well as Civil War service documents and reconstruction...
Dates: 1735 - 2008
Found in: Manuscripts / Jeannine Smith Collection

George A. Smythe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-66
Scope and Contents These papers mostly concern George A. Smythe, an Englishman who obtained U.S. citizenship in 1859 and settled in Jackson; and correspondence (1892-1943) of Ella V. Hipple and other family members.Includes deeds, tax receipts, and other business and legal papers (1839-1938) of George A. Smythe, Arthur W. Smythe, and Ella V. (Smythe) Hipple; ledger (1836-1865) of the firm Daly and McKee, Jackson, Miss.; other items many dealing with the antebellum, Civil War, and reconstruction...
Dates: 1836 - 1943
Found in: Manuscripts / George A. Smythe Papers

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