Materials in this collection were donated by William M. Colmer: First accession-1970. Additional information online at: http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m024.htm
A dispatch sent by Brigadier General John C. Breckinridge to Colonel H. P. Brewster in Corinth, Mississippi, apparently in response to his request for information on Union troop movements in northeast Mississippi, and warning about a potential...
From the T.P. Scott Papers. A letter from W.S.F. Tatum to T.P. Scott dated 25 November 1910, concerning the selection of a site for Mississippi Normal College, favoring the Tatum property.
From the Campbell (Will D.) Papers; Copy of a typewritten memo from Will D. Campbell to Dr. J. Oscar Lee, dated August 25, 1958. Campbell expresses hesitation in abandoning Christians in Mississippi working on behalf of the civil rights movement,...
From the Johnston (Erle E., Jr.) Papers; Typewritten letter on Citizens Councils of America letterhead from William J. Simmons to Erle Johnston, Jr., dated November 25, 1987. Discusses the Legal Education Advisory Committee (LEAC), as well as...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Memo from Janice Goodman to supporters of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), dated February 25, 1965. Attached is a copy of a resolution that was passed by the Michigan...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Mrs. F.A. Barnett to her daughter Virginia Barnett, who is visiting relatives. In this letter written from Ripley, Mississippi, and dated 25 June 1858, Mrs. Barnett writes about family matters and news...
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 25 May 1862, written from a camp near Farmington in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois...
Printed copy of an order, dated 26 February 1870, dissolving the Fourth Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas), a unit that had been created by Congressional order in 1867. General Sherman and E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General, are named in...
From the L.E. Faulkner Papers. Letter from Representative Colmer to L.E. Faulker, dated 25 January 1945. Colmer writes that he was "one of the five that was responsible for setting this Committee (Un-American Activities Committee) up in the first...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Typewritten copy of the testimony given by Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee #5, dated March 25, 1965. Expresses thanks for the...
From the Ellin (Joseph and Nancy) Freedom Summer Collection; Newsletter released by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), dated April 25, 1965. Sections of interest include a report of an injunction against a Sunflower County...
Resolution: Passed by the General Assembly of the State of Virginia in relation to the Confederate States impressment laws. By the President pro tempore; Read and ordered to lie on the table and be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States...
Report on the Committee on Finance: On the Bill (H. R. 92) To tax, fund, and limit the currency. By Mr. Semmes; Two hundred and fifty copies ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 25 January 1864.
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to lay taxes for the common defense, and carry on the Government of the Confederate States." By Mr. Kenner, from Committee on Ways and Means; Read first and second times, make special order for Monday after morning...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the Postoffice Department, and prohibiting the transportation of mailable matter over the post routes of the Confederate States by unauthorized associations of persons...
A Bill: To provide Means to pay the Army and Navy, and carry on the War. By Mr. Perkins; Ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 25 February 1865.
