Senator Stennis before Senate-Subcommittee considering Anti-Lynching Bill; the "Southern" struggle on Capitol Hill and longstanding friendship with constituent.
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...
Civil war; Agriculture; United States; Fort Sumter (Charleston, S.C.); Jackson (Miss.)
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her cousin, N. H. Boyd, in Jackson, Mississippi, telling her about the local excitement over Virginia's secession from the Union. She writes that military companies are passing through...
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...
Civil war; United States; Confederate Army; Slavery; African-Americans; Plantations; Agriculture; Livestock; Plantation overseers; Choctaw Agency (Oktibbeha County, Miss.); Rice, Augusta H., 1831-1906
Letter from Rice plantation manager A. B. Parks in Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Mobile, Alabama, regarding the state of the crops and livestock and the health of the workers, including slaves, 1864.
Civil war; United States; Confederate States of America; Draft; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lee, W. H. (William Hollinshed), 1841-1910; Edgefield District (S.C.); Religion; God
Letter, William States Lee, a minister in Edgefield District, South Carolina, to his grandson, William Hollinshed Lee, of Blythe's Regiment, Company A, Corinth, Mississippi. He mentions the evacuation of Columbus and doesn't know if the letter...
Civil war; United States; Sharon (Miss.); Madison County (Miss.); African-Americans; Slavery; Indians of North America; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 18th. Company G; Confederate States of America. Army....
Letter from Josephine Magruder in Sharon, Mississippi, to her brother, Henry Archibald Magruder. She mentions that a Mr. Clark is leaving with supplies for the Confederate and Camden Rifles (Companies C and G of the 18th Mississippi Infantry,...
Civil war; United States; Sharon (Miss.); Madison County (Miss.); Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 18th; Magruder, Henry Archibald, 1842-1896
Letter from Martha Magruder (later Martha Magruder Hopkins) to her brother, Henry Archibald Magruder, inquiring about his health and the health of his regiment (the 18th Mississippi Infantry) and reporting news about family and friends, 1862....
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...
Civil war; United States; Shuqualak (Miss.); Columbus (Miss.); Morrow family; Pope family
Letter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer's Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama. Pope is stationed in Shuqualak as Purchasing Commissary. He invites Lee to visit Columbus and mentions that he can stay...
Civil war; United States; Slavery; African-Americans; Alabama
Letter to Howell Hobbs from his cousin, Susan V. Batte, and her husband. Susan Batte mentions a cousin, Dick Batte, and his fear of being drafted into the army, and she asks if Hobbs has heard from his negroes yet. Mr. Batte writes of his recent...
Curry family; Starkville (Miss.); Courtship; Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902
Letter from widow Sallie E. Curry in Starkville, Mississippi, to the unidentified man in West Point, who wrote for her permission to write or visit. She tells him that he may visit because she doesn't approve of ladies corresponding with...
Curry family; West Point (Miss.); Courtship; Bond, Sarah E. (Sallie), 1830-1902
Letter to widow Sallie E. Curry from an unidentified man in West Point, Mississippi, asking her permission to correspond with him or allow him to call on her, 1863. Sallie E. Curry married W.P. Bond in 1888.
