From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 11 March 1863, written from camp near the 34th MS Regiment. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 7 January 1861, written from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Spight (Thomas) Letters. Letter from Thomas Spight to Virginia Barnett, dated 13 April 1864, written from camp near Dalton, Tennessee. Spight, a member of the 34th Mississippi Infantry during the Civil War, writes to his cousin and future...
From the Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. Copy of a typewritten letter from "The FDP Congresswoman"(Victoria Gray) to Congressman William Fitts Ryan. Gray expresses appreciation on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) for...
From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; A collage of images depicting training activity at Camp Shelby during World War II, circa 1941-1945. 5" x 7"
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...
From the Foote (Henry Stuart) Letter and Autograph. Letter by Henry Stuart Foote, written in response to George H. Morrow's request for information about the relationship between Linn Boyd and Henry Clay, who died in 1852. Foote discusses Clay's...
Letter, dated March 8, 1864, was written by W.L. Chatham to "sis," who the donor has identified as Nancy Elizabeth Searcy. Chatham is writing from the mountains of Jefferson County, Tennessee, where he is in the Confederate Army guarding Bull's...
Letter from Governor Ridgely C. Powers of Mississippi, to U. S. Attorney General George H. Williams, dated 16 May 1873, suggesting a second individual for the position of United States Marshal in the state. [Powers' first nominee was General E. J....
"Political Correspondences" (Lowndes Cty., Miss.) Broadside. An anti-secession broadside printed in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The document records the names of individuals who were asked to consider representing Lowndes County at the State...
A letter from Confederate Private Andrew J. Patrick near Holly Springs, Mississippi, to his father and wife concerning the October 3-4, 1862, battle at Corinth. He discusses the possible capture of his friend, David Haigler, and reveals his concern...
Printed committee report dated 3 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. It recommends that the petitions by Mississippi territory residents for compensation due to Creek Indian depredations (and the depredations of American...
A printed copy of an address by Thomas Smith Grimk’e at a religious meeting in Charleston, South Carolina on 29 March 1831. In his comments Grimk’e focuses upon the resolution of the American Sunday School Union on the issue of Sunday Schools...
A printed copy of a report from the Committee on the Public Lands, dated 29 May 1812, issuing from their inquiry into the expediency of confirming claims to land in the Mississippi Territory founded on Spanish Warrants of Survey.
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...
From the Wesley James Ellzey Papers. A certificate of Confederate draft exemption issued to Wesley James Ellzey on May 8, 1864. The exemption was issued because he was a teacher.
Printed committee report dated 12 February 1816, relating to claims in the Mississippi Territory. This report concerns the validity of British and Spanish grants, some held by non-residents.