A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
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...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 20, 1993 with Brad Dye concerning Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson Jr. Dye was born on December 20, 1933 in Charleston, Mississippi. In 1957, he received his bachelor of business administration...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 24, 1978 with Mr. Nathaniel H. Lewis at his home in McComb, Mississippi. Lewis was born in McComb, Mississippi. In 1928, Lewis and his father organized the McComb Independent Lodge NO. 846 of the...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 15, 1978 with Mr. Thomas Y. Minniece. Minniece was born in Meridian, Mississippi on October 9, 1912. He received a BA degree from the University of Texas in 1933 and a law degree from the University of...
Oral history.; Mr. Jeremiah O'Keefe was born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on July 12, 1923. Mr. O'Keefe attended Sacred Heart Academy for high school. He entered the U.S. Navy and received his wings in the U.S. Marine Corps in May, 1943. Having...
Oral history.; The Honorable Frank D. Barber was born on April 2, 1929, in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Barber attended the University of Mississippi for a year before volunteering for the U.S. Army which involved National Guard work in the U.S. and...
From the Loomis (John Mason) Letter. Letter from Union Civil War Colonel John Mason Loomis of the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Corps to Captain T. J. London, Assistant Adjutant General of the 1st Division, 16th Corps, July 20, 1863. Loomis...
From the Belcher (Granville W. and Mary Caroline) Letters. Granville W. Belcher, a farmer from Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia, served in company F, 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Belcher writes to Washington Dickinson on 17...
Letter written from Natchez, Mississippi, on 11 December 1864, by Thomas C. Prescott, a member of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry, and one of the more than 4500 Federal troops occupying Natchez. The letter contains personal comments on living...
One letter written by U. S. Brigadier General Boyle to his wife while he was in camp outside Jackson, Mississippi. The shelling of Jackson, the discovery of Jefferson Davis' papers, and events connected with the 3rd Texas Cavalry are detailed. ...
Memoir written by Jack E. Pitts, a private soldier in Company K, First Virginia Cavalry, Confederate Army, of his experiences in General J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Army of the Potomac outside of Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1862. Pitts...
A letter, dated 2 December 1849, from Albert Sidney Johnston in Brazoria County, Texas, to General R. Jones, Adjutant General, United States Army. The letter concerns Johnston's appointment as a paymaster in the Army. Johnston planned to await...
Message of the President to the House of Representatives; Includes Communication from the Secretary of War, James A. Seddon, and Communication from S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General.
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Communication of the Secretary of War, John C. Breckinridge, and a telegraph from W.J. Hardee, Lt. General to Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General; Referred to...
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Communication of the Secretary of War, James A. Seddon, and a Report of the Adjutant General, S. Cooper.
Message of the President to the Senate and House of Representatives; Includes Communication of the Secretary of War, John C. Breckinridge, and an estimate for funds to meet the deficiencies in the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, C.S.A. for...
Message of the President to the House of Representatives; Includes Communication of the Secretary of War, James A. Seddon, and a letter from the Adjutant and Inspector General, S. Cooper.
