Feemster family; Religion; Revivals; Civil war; United States; Breastfeeding; Christian sects; Conversion; Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863; Infants; Slavery; African-Americans; Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902; Feemster,...
Letter, Loulie Feemster to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama. She is at her friend Hallie's and opens by telling him about her recent social calls. She says that the church doesn't seem ''much revived,'' but that the soldiers have...
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...
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Women's clothing; Godey's lady's book and magazine; Agriculture
Letter to Eudora Hobbs in Salem, North Carolina, from her father, Howell Hobbs, acknowledging receipt of her President's Card for good conduct at school. He asks her what she wishes to do about a dress which had belonged to her mother, and which...
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.
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...
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Civil War; Politicians; Presidents; Politics and government; Generals
Volume 13 of a continuing series (currently 31 volumes) showcasing an edited collection of documents by and about Ulysses S. Grant. Materials in the series span the dates of 1837-1885; volume 13 spans the dates of November 16, 1864-February 20,...
Agriculture--Mississippi--History; Issaquena County (Miss.); Porter, G.C.--Family.
G. C. Porter family farm; multiple views. Farm of 70 acres located about 23 miles south of Rolling Fork, near Valley Park. Issaquena Co. agent Bill Flemming, Assistant county agent George Berry, Home Demonstration agent Mary Harpole assisted with...
Calves.; Aberdeen Creamery Company (Aberdeen, Miss.)
The Calf Book: 24-page pamphlet on calf-rearing, advertising the De Laval Cream Separator, and distributed by the Aberdeen Creamery Company in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.; Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1835-1914.; Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.; Weaver, James B. (James Baird), 1833-1912.; Populist Party (U. S.); Elections--United States--1892.; Willard, Frances E. (Frances...
Letter to Cammie Williams from his cousin, Willie R. Hollingsworth, in Chicago, Illinois, regarding politics and his support of Grover Cleveland over the Republican (Benjamin Harrison) and Populist (James Weaver) party candidates.
College students--Mississippi--History.; Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.; Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. Trilby.; Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Letter to Cammie Williams from his brother Mims Williams, who was attending Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Most of the letter is about books and authors.
