Guardian and ward; Custodian accounts; Itawamba County (Miss.); Probate courts; Education; Tuition; Slaves; Debtor and creditor; Taxes; Money; Crayton, R. C.; Tynes, Roena C., 1852-1880
Annual Report of W. D. Tynes Guardian for R. C. Crayton a Minor To February Term 1863 of the Probate Court of Itawamba Co Mississippi. As assets, Tynes lists five individuals indebted to the guardian account by notes, cash on hand of $900 in...
Civil war; United States; Jackson (Miss.); Legislation; Cotton; Hobbs, Howell, 1810-1877
Auditor's receipt from A.J. Gillespie, Auditor of Public Accounts, Jackson, Mississippi, for a warrant of $750.00 as an advance on 30 bales of cotton to be produced and sold upon demand of the Governor to T.H. and M. Allen Company, New Orleans. ...
Nottoway Plantation (La.); Randolph, John Hampden, 1813-1883; Sugar trade; John Shelby & Co. (Memphis, Tenn.); Bayou Goula (La.); Steamboats
Waybill for a wartime shipment of 20 hogsheads (about 135 bushels) of sugar from Nottoway, the plantation of John Hampden Randolph, a wealthy planter of Bayou Goula, Louisiana, to be shipped on the steamer Louisville to John Shelby & Co. in...
Civil war; United States; Confederate States of America; Taxation; Scarbrough, James; Scarbrough family
Receipt for James Scarborough's payment of $632 in taxes to the Confederate States of America for ''State, county, military, and military relief,'' received by Sheriff William C. Staples, 1862.
Civil war; United States; Agriculture; Green, Anna, 1804-1886; Moore's Bayou (Quitman Co., Miss.); Tunica County (Miss.)
Letter from Matilda Patterson from Moor's Byue (Moore's Bayou), Tunica County, later Quitman County, Mississippi to her sister Anna Green, relating family and local news, and praising the soldiers fighting in the war. She mentions that son Joseph...
Shaw family; Copiah County (Miss.); Agriculture; Cotton; Civil war; United States; Brookhaven (Miss.); Diphtheria; Diseases
Letter, Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw. He writes that he is still unwell and that he has the ''flux.'' Another company left Brookhaven, but there is no news from the war. He tells her about the cotton and some hogs that they plan to...
Business; Gins; Civil war; United States; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 14th. Company K
Letter from Charles H. Abert to W. A. Blanchard, regarding the non-receipt of a gin band and other business matters. He writes that the war has begun in Charleston, and that his son, George Abert, has gone to Columbus to join the 'Rifle Company'...
Civil war; United States; Columbus (Miss.); Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 48th. Company C; Confederate States of America; Young women; Sewing; Lee, W. H. (William Hollinshed), 1841-1910
Letter, Clotille Morrow, a teenaged girl in Columbus, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, telling him that Columbus is ''exceedingly dull,'' with no parties, weddings, or beaux. Captain Baskerville has raised a cavalry battalion with five...
Civil war; United States; Education; Agriculture; Green, Anna, 1804-1886; Tunica County (Miss.)
Letter from Eliza Patterson to her aunt, Ann Boyd Green, from Tunica County, Mississippi. She writes of being home from Nashville and bringing a nephew Bell with her, and about a nephew who recently died of whooping cough and measles. She mentions...
Wier, Mary Elizabeth, 1822-1909; Wier family; Civil war; United States; Lauderdale County (Miss.); Childbirth; Children; Parker family; Wier, Robert Stuart, 1829-1864; Confederate States of America.Army. Mississippi Infantry, 14th. Company B...
Letter, Elizabeth Wier from Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to her daughter Mary Elizabeth Wier. She mentions the recent birth of a Parker grandchild, the health and excitement of her daughter Sue Parker, and the activities of other family...
Civil war; United States; Huntsville (Ala.); Fort Hatteras (N.C.); Fort Clark (N.C.); Fort Pickens (Fla.); Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861; Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th; Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876; Walker,...
Letter from Hallie Cruse in Huntsville, Alabama, to her sister, Maria Walker, regarding the troubles of family and friends. She mentions a Confederate camp in Huntsville and refers to the 4th Alabama Regiment's involvement in the battle at...
Secession; Mississippi; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Weather; Hinds County (Miss.); Telegraph
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, relating family news and discussing the ongoing session of Mississippi's Convention, 1861. He describes hard times where business and money are concerned. He tells her...
