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.; Discusses the prominence of the United Daughters of the Confederacy among Southern white women prior to World War II and the annual observances of Confederate holidays. Mentions other influential women's organizations in Mississippi.
From the Adams (John Q.) Letters. Letter from John Quince Adams to his wife, Sarah Adams, dated 27 June 1862, written from Camp Big Springs, Mississippi. Adams, who served in Co. E., 60th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteers during the Civil War,...
From the Camp (David A.) Letters. Letter from David A. Camp, captain in Company D of the 16th Battalion of Georgia Calvary (also called the Georgia Partisan Rangers), to his wife Anna Camp. In his letter dated 3 February 1863, Camp writes from...
From the United States. Army. Provost-Marshal's Office (4th District, Richmond, VA.) Documents. Partially completed form from April 1865, used to certify that deserters from the Confederate forces had taken the Amnesty Oath issued under the...
An Act: To provide for the more efficient execution of conscription and for the arrest of deserters and absentees from the armies. By Mr. Ayer; ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 10 January 1865.
