Weaver, Stark & Co. (Mobile, Ala.); Salt; Sykes, James William, 1810-1885
Account statement and receipt for James Sykes' payment of $594.95 to Weaver, Stark & Co. of Mobile, Alabama, 8 sacks of salt shipped to Columbus by railroad. 1863.
Sykes, James William, 1810-1885; Columbus (Miss.); Clothing and dress; Barter; Merchants; Tailors; H. Johnston (Firm: Columbus, Miss.)
Account statement for James W. Sykes' purchases from Columbus, Mississippi, merchant tailor Harrison Johnston in 1861. Sykes received credit for one 105 pound hog. Statement dated January 1, 1862.
Guardian and ward; Custodian accounts; Itawamba County (Miss.); Slaves; Clothing; Taxes; Crayton, R. C.; Tynes, Roena C., 1852-1880; Tynes, W. D. (William Doric), 1837-1915
Affidavit, R. H. Bolen promises to pay W. L. Tynes, guardian of R. C. Crayton $80.00 for the hire of a Negro girl named Elcy, who is to have a winter suit of clothes, two summer suits of clothes, one blanket, a quilt, one pair of shoes and...
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. ...
Fagot, Pierre Auguste Samuel; Fagot, Emilie Jourdain; Uncle Sam Plantation (La.); Steamboats; Grocery trade
Bill for a wartime shipment of grocery items on the steamboat J. A. Cotten for the 'Uncle Sam' plantation managed by Emilie Fagot, widow of Samuel Fagot, 1861. Groceries include candles, salt, and lard.
Grocery trade; Starkville (Miss.); Curry family; Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902
Bill for items purchased by Sarah E. Curry in January of 1863. Items include a plough, buggy, a wagon, a grind stone, fodder, hogs, and various meat and produce. Sarah E. Curry married W.P. Bond in 1888.
Marion (Miss.); Women; Civil war; United States; Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864; Jones family; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906; Teachers
Black-bordered letter from J. M. Jones in Marion, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Mobile, Alabama, opening with news about mutual friends and the weather. She writes about women in Marion working to help maimed soldiers and describes one...
American Party; Columbus (Miss.); Political parties; Elections; Mississippi; Political Conventions; Philadelphia (Pa.); Fontaine, Charles D., 1817-1871; Swann, Fleming L.; Stith, R. S.; Horne, A. G.; Cash, McDowell & Kimbrough (Firm: Columbus,...
Broadside, Platform and Principles of the American Party of the U. States, Adopted in Convention at Philadelphia, June, 1855. Platform outlines fourteen planks of the American Party, formerly the Know-Nothing Party, including religion, patriotism,...
Webster County (Miss.); Swine; Clothing and dress; Livestock; Agricultural implements; Implements, utensils, etc.; Scarbrough family
Detailed list of property, from household items to livestock, sold by James Scarbrough on January 25, 1862, along with the names of the men who purchased the items.
Estimate and assessment of tax owed on pork: H. Wilson of Copiah County paid 104 pounds pork to the Confederate government, as a 10% tax on 1040 pounds assessed. Payment received by agent T. H. Wheeler at Depot No. 3, 4th Congressional District. ...
Swine; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Starkville (Miss.); Curry family; Taxation; Confederate States of America; Oktibbeha County (Miss.); Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902
Form completed by Sarah E. Curry to account for the number of hogs slaughtered on her plantation between April 1863 and March 1864. She records 3 hogs for a total of 580 pounds, with 34 pounds due to the Confederate States government. Witnessed...
Vicksburg (Miss.); Paris (Ill.); Steamboats; Women; Social history; Bird, Mary Ellen TenBrook, b. 1843; Lamon, Lucy Malindia Alexander, b. 1843; Judson, Jacintha Alexander, 1828-1903; Judson, Willet Harmon, 1823-1890; Judson, Jennie Shields, b....
Letter from 17-year-old Ellen Mary 'Nell' TenBrook to her 17-year-old aunt, Lucy Malindia Alexander, in Paris, Illinois, January 1860. Nell is visiting her aunt (Lucy's sister), Jacintha 'Cinty' Alexander Judson, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and...
Shaw family; Copiah County (Miss.); Brookhaven; Measles; Diseases; Civil war; United States; African-Americans; Slavery; Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864; Fort Donelson (Tenn.); Clarksville (Tenn.)
Letter from Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw, telling her about the ill health of himself, his son, some of the slaves, and the neighborhood in general. Some of the soldiers in Brookhaven have the measles. He tells her that he has been...
Sykes family; Sykes, James William, 1810-1885; Slavery; African-Americans; Forkland (Ala.); Malone, Samuel Booth (1804-1863)
Letter from Alfred Y. Glover in Forkland, Alabama, to James Sykes in Columbus, Mississippi, requesting that he make a decision about a slave girl named Tildy-Ann, who belongs to one of Dr. Sam B. Malone's minor heirs. James Sykes is the agent for...
Slavery; Slave trade; Slaveholders; Abolitionists; Christian literature; Artists; Annexation; Texas; Natchez (Miss.); Saint Louis (Mo.); New Orleans (La.); Mobile (Ala.)
Letter from an unidentified illustrator of Indians who is publishing a book, from Natchez, Mississippi, to his wife in Vermont, 1853. The writer criticizes the institution of slavery and believes that a civil war is the only hope of ending it. He...
Boys; Horses; Vicksburg (Miss.); Civil war; United States; Distemper; Traditional medicine; Oktibbeha County (Miss.); Walker, Maria, 1820-1893
Letter from Arthur Hopkins Rice, Meadow Woods, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, to his aunt, Maria Walker. He writes about some of the horses having distemper, Mrs. Outlaw giving him a dog, killing snakes, and catching crayfish. He also mentions...
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; 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...
Okolona (Miss.); Young women; Courtship; Civil war; United States; Social history
Letter from Georgetta Potts to Mattie Morrow, mostly regarding news about mutual friends. She writes that she has a new 'sweetheart,' an intelligent and wealthy Spaniard. She mentions that Lucie Hampton is dying of consumption and that Frank W. is...
