Oral history.; Interview conducted on October 25, 1993 with Mrs. Raylawni Branch. Branch was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1941. After graduating from high school, she married and had three children. In 1965, Branch attended USM for one...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 6, 2008 with Rev. Lee J. Adams, Jr., a pastor at Little Rock Baptist Church in Gulfport, MS. Mr. Adams discusses the role of the church in recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Zoya Zeman's senior thesis was written after her participation in the Mississippi Freedom Project in the summer of 1964. Putting her work into context, she begins with a description of the background history of Mississippi. Zeman then recounts her...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document about the experiences of Jill Wakeman (Goodman) during her stay in Mississippi in the summer of 1966, including her motives for going to Mississippi and the civil rights work she did there. Describes Mount...
A requisition, dated 8 February 1861, from Colonel Gregg of the South Carolina Volunteers to Colonel Edward Manigault, Chief of the Ordinance Department, requesting ammunition for his regiment.
A report written from Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Captain A. H. Robinson to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Cox, Acting Chief of Commissary of Subsistence, Department of the Tennessee, outlining the sale and distribution of rations to local citizens. The...
A complimentary matchbook used recruiting and marketing. The cover has printing: "Mississippi's fastest growing college...Compliments of Mississippi Southern College Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, Hattiesburg, Mississippi...Close cover...
A Bill: To regulate Furloughs and Discharges to Soldiers in Hospitals. By Mr. Farrow; Read first and second times, referred to the Committee on the Medical Department, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for the payment of officers acting under temporary appointment from the commander of any department, corps, division or brigade." By Mr. Vest, from Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to allow commissioned officers of the army rations and the privilege of purchasing clothing from the Quartermaster's Department." By Mr. Miles; December 11, 1863 - Read first and second times, and referred to...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act providing for the auditing and payment of properly authenticate claims against the Cotton Bureau in the Trans-Mississippi Department." By Mr. Herbert, from the Committee on Claims; Read first and second times, laid...
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 be entitled, "An Act excluding the privilege of purchasing clothing at Government cost, to all persons in its employment, who have been discharged for the army on account of wounds received or disease contracted whilst in the service."...
A Bill: Regulating the granting furloughs and discharges in Hospitals. By Mr. Clark, of Ga; Read first and second times and referred to Committee on Medical Department.. Reported back, committee discharged, laid on table and ordered to be printed...
A Bill: Making appropriations to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the Department of Justice for the half year ending 31 December 1864. By Mr. Lyon, of the Committee of Ways and Means; Read first and second times, laid on the table and...
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...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on November 14, 2005. Mr. Jones describes his struggle to survive as Hurricane Katrina struck Gulfport, Mississippi.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 22, 2007 with Paige Roberts, Director of Southeast Mississippi's Chapter of the Red Cross, who discusses the hurricane season of 2005, especially Hurricane Katrina's lingering devastation.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Ruth Horn, a long-time Moss Point, Mississippi, resident who describes her experiences surrounding Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
