Tensas Parish (La.)--History.; Natchez (Miss.)--History.; Waterproof (La.)--History.; Saint Joseph (La.)--History.; Plantation life--Louisiana--History--19th century.; Slavery--United States--History--19th century.; Levees--Louisiana.;...
Diary kept by plantation owner Zenas Preston from 1850-1853. Preston's plantation, Leftwich, was situated on Lake St. Peter in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, and Preston describes frequent trips to Waterproof, Saint Joseph, and Natchez via the...
Lipscomb, Jane, 1810-1865; Wier, Elizabeth, 1798-1864; Enterprise (Miss.); Civil war; United States; Chatfield, William M.; Chatfield, George Washington, 1810-1881; Clergy; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 20th....
Letter, Jane Hardwick Lipscomb, probably from Jasper County, Mississippi, to her sister-in-law Elizabeth Lipscomb Wier at Enterprise, Mississippi, telling of the state of the anxiety of her daughter Laura and sympathizing with the recent troubles...
Narrative and list compiled by Jane Stewart Calhoun, documenting money owed to her by the government for food, supplies, animals, and other damages incurred during the Civil War, undated. She also mentions an unnamed Union spy who stayed with...
Secession; Mississippi; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Hinds County (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, relating family and local news and telling her about the local excitement over Mississippi's secession, 1861.
Okolona (Miss.); Tupelo (Miss.); West Point (Miss.); Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877; Roddey, Philip Dale, 1826-1897; Duff, William Lewis, 1841-1909; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 8th; Fort Pillow (Tenn.);...
Letter from Mattie Morrow in West Point, Mississippi, to Billie and Jimmie, asking about family and mutual friends and referring to the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, June, 1864. She mentions Generals Forrest and Roddey, Colonel William Duff of the...
Plantations; Plantation overseers; Choctaw Agency (Oktibbeha County, Miss.); Civil war; United States; African-Americans; Slavery; Agriculture; Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891; Resaca, Battle of, Resaca, Ga., 1864; Atlanta (Ga.);...
Letter from Rice plantation manager A. B. Parks in Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Mobile, Alabama, opening with the health of the slaves and the state of the crops. Parks writes that his son, who was wounded after fighting...
Feemster family; Infants; Traditional medicine; Lowndes County (Miss.); Sewing; Religion; Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902; Feemster, Alexander Whitfield, 1827-1911
Letter, Loulie Feemster to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, mentioning home and sewing matters and the text of the morning sermon. She had feared that Mattie would have the ''Flux,'' but she took care of it with rhubarb, and the...
Ross, Emmett Lloyd, 1838-1891; Ross family; Marriage; Clinton (La.); Teachers; Bayou Sara (La.); Civil war; United States
Letter, James Ross in Clinton, Louisiana, to his son, Emmett Ross. He encourages his son to rest so that his leg injury will heal faster. He gives his consent for Emmett to marry Mollie (Mary Collins), even though he hasn't met his future...
Class reunions.; Gulfport High School (Gulfport, Miss.)--Photographs.; Clothing and dress.; Hotel Markham (Gulfport, Miss)--Photographs.; Dixie Guide (Newspaper: Gulfport, Miss.)
Gulfport High School Class of 1954 Reunion: First row: Imogene Hill Tollison, Marilyn Cuevas Atstom, Sally Bradford Lyons, Lydia Besse Hall, Dessie Clayton Allen, Elizabeth O'dom Clark, Martha Pecoul Sinopoli, Christine Holcomb Mitchell, Nina...
Chamber of Commerce official and business leaders of Gulfport, Miss. visit U.S. Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport;(1) J. H. McManus, City Commissioner;(2) Lt. Commd. W. B. Greeg, officer at Base;(3) Sherman Muths, Vice-President...
John C. Stennis Mississippi Test Facility George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Hancock Port & Harbor Commission Kink, Freitag, Bounds, Jacobs Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis (second from left) poses with E. W. King, Capt. Freitag, James Bounds, Neville Jacobs of the Hancock Port & Harbor Commission at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at the Mississippi Test Facility in Bay St. Louis on...
John C. Stennis Mississippi Test Facility George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Bay St. Louis King, Freitag, Bounds, Jacobs Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis (second from left) poses with E. W. King, Capt. Freitag, James Bounds, Neville Jacobs of the Hancock Port & Harbor Commission at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at the Mississippi Test Facility in Bay St. Louis on...
John C. Stennis Mississippi Test Facility George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Bay St. Louis King, Freitag Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis (second from left) poses with E. W. King and Capt. Freitag at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at the Mississippi Test Facility in Bay St. Louis on June 27, 1970.
John C. Stennis Mississippi Test Facility George C. Marshall Space Flight Center Bay St. Louis Balch and Freitag Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis (left) stands with J. M. Balch and Capt. Robert F. Freitag in a parking lot at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at the Mississippi Test Facility in Bay St. Louis on June 27, 1970.
Knox, James, 1786-1864; Pickens County (Ala.); Presbyterians; Agriculture; Slavery; African-Americans; Somerville, James, 1827-1868; Oak Grove Presbyterian Church (Franconia, Ala.); Sons of Temperance of North America; Cotton; Presbyterian Church...
Diary kept from March 1848 to February 1851 by James Knox (1786-1864), a planter and Presbyterian church elder in Pickens County, Alabama. The diary records planting, harvesting, and other agricultural work, as well as Presbytery meetings and...
Sykes family; Sale family; Slavery; African-Americans; Pioneer Express Company (Mobile, Ala.); Sale, John B., 1818-1876; Refugees; New Orleans (La.)
Letter, Luke J. Whitfield at the Pioneer Express Company in Mobile, Alabama, to James Sykes, regarding an unnamed slave (Zeke?) who belonged to Captain John B. Sale. The slave had been hired out by Sykes to a Mr. Sawyers, who apparently...