Senator Stennis in Mississippi Columbus AFB Air Force Eubank McKee Schurter Stennis
(L-R) Maj. Gen. William E. Eubank, Jr. Deputy Commander, Second Air Force; Gen. Wm. F. McKee, Vice CS, USAF; Hon. John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from MS; and Col. Orie O. Schurter at Columbus AFB. Vehicle and hangar in background.
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...
Plantations; Plantation overseers; Choctaw Agency (Oktibbeha County, Miss.); Cattle; Swine; Agriculture; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; Spinning; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906
Letter from plantation manager A. B. Parks in Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice, reporting that he slaughtered some hogs and is sending her some meat and produce. He also writes about cattle and spinning. 1864.
Civil war; United States; Slavery; African-Americans; Sykes, James William, 1810-1885
Letter, commissary officer Major E. W. Halliday in Canton, Mississippi, to James Sykes, sending home Sykes' slave, Addison, who ''has become dissatisfied and is anxious to return home.'' Addison's wages for two months and two days were $41.33. ...
Civil war; United States; Shuqualak (Miss.); Columbus (Miss.); Marriage; Weddings; Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908; Lee, W. H. (William Hollinshed), 1841-1910
Letter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer's Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama, expressing his desire for Lee to visit him at his boarding house. Sims was wounded and captured. Pope sympathizes with...
Demopolis (Ala.); Mobile (Ala.); Montgomery (Ala.); Civil war; United States; Military occupation; Walker, John James, d. 1884; Oliver, Starke; Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906
Letter from W. H. R. in Demopolis, Alabama, to Augusta Hopkins Rice. He mentions Major Walker in Meridian, Mississippi and Starke Oliver, writes about the Yankees doing little damage in Montgomery, and also says that Yankees have 'quietly occupied'...
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson); 1822-1885;Civil War;Politicians Presidents;Politics and government;Generals
The Chronology of Ulysses S. Grant's life is extracted from the 31 volumes of the Papers of Ulysses S. Grant and is presented here as a full-length time line of Grant's life.
John C. Stennis Cuba Fitch Senate Armed Services Committee Soviet Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis at unidentifed location; talks of Cuban cave storage; Maj. Gen. Alva R. Fitc, the Army's top intelligence officer, poses with Chairman Stennis, before giving the Senat e Armeed Services Committee an evaluation of the current...
John C. Stennis Military Alva R. Fitch Cuban Cave Storage Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis in unidentified location talking about Cuban Cave Storage. Maj. Gen. Alva R. Fitch, the Army's top intelligence officer, poses March 6 with Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss. before giving the Senate Armed Services Committee an...
John C. Stennis Woods Massey Beauchamp 1st Cavalry Mount Olive Lucedale Mize Thomaston, GA Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis in unidentified location visiting 1st Cavalry Division and collecting home addresses from two 1st Battle Group, 7th Cavalry sergeants following lunch at Company C. The Cavalry Men are (l-r) Sgt. Paul L. Woods, son of Mr. and...
John C. Stennis Beauchamp 1st Cavalry Storke I Corps Charlie Company Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis in unidentified location visiting 1st Cavalry Division and and is greeted by Maj. General Charles E. Beauchamp, 1st Cavalry Div. Commanding general, upon his arrival to inspect facilities of Company C, 1st Battle Group, 7th...
John C. Stennis West Point, NY Board of Visitors English Aichaelis Irving Compton Robertson Jones Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis at West Point Military Academy, NY. The Board of Visitors stand Review (l-r) Capt. A. English, Aide to General Irving, Capt. Schoememan, Aid to Gen. Aichaelis, Lt. Chandler, Aide to Gen. Irving, Dr. KT Compton, Maj. Gen. FA...
John C. Stennis West Point, NY Board of Visitors Dunning Robertson Clay Compton Miller Dickey Irving Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis at West Point Military Academy, NY. The Board of Visitors stand at attention during the playing of ruffles and flourishes:(l-r) Dr. JR Dunning, Hon. WA Robertson, Gen. LD Clay, USA retired, Stennis, Dr. KT Compton, Col. FP...