Transcribed copy of a report by the General Legislative Committee of Mississippi based on findings from an investigation of the occupation of the University of Mississippi in 1962 by the United States Department of Justice. Action was taken in...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Diplomacy" holds a clapboard like a movie set hand, while bombs explode all around him. A movie camera is pointed at the man. The clapboard reads, "All foreign...
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...
Printed roster, dating 1 February 1869, listing the district headquarters, officers, and companies under Brigadier General Alvan Cullem Gillem, commander of the Fourth Military District, Department of Mississippi, established by the U.S. Congress...
Printed roster, dating 1 February 1869, listing the district headquarters, officers, and companies under Brigadier General Alvan Cullem Gillem, commander of the Fourth Military District, Department of Mississippi, established by the U.S. Congress...
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...
A Bill: To be entitled, "An Act to provide for keeping in repair the railroads of the Confederate States necessary for the transportation of troops and Government supplies." By Mr. Clapp; Read first and second times, laid on the table and ordered...
A Bill: To provide additional Clothing and Privileges to Troops in the Field. By Mr. Norton, Committee on Military Affairs; Read first and second times, to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of America on 30 December 1864.
Joint Resolutions: In reference to the treatment of colored troops. By Mr. Curry; Read first and second times, postponed until tomorrow, made special order for 1 o'clock, and ordered to be printed by the Congress of the Confederate States of...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 12, 1973 with Mr. Jerry Clower at his office in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Clower was born in 1926 at Route Four, Liberty, Mississippi. After graduating from high school, he joined the U.S. Navy. On...
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 27 September 1862, Camp writes about a...
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...
A letter from Milton W. Shaw, a corporal with the 5th Iowa Volunteers, to his friend Alf Giague in Birmingham, Iowa. Shaw was on board the naval transport Von Phul with Grant's troops who, in early 1863, entered the Yazoo Pass and attempted to...
Letter from Samuel J. Gholson in Verona, Mississippi, to Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles in Columbus, Mississippi, recommending Captain J. F. White instead of Major Inge for command of troops in the First Military District. Gholson was a native of...
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...
Transcribed copy of a typewritten document entitled "Message from Mississippi," produced by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission. This address was prepared for individuals who volunteered to speak publicly on behalf of the Mississippi State...
