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...
Wier, Mary Elizabeth, 1822-1909; Wier family; Civil war; United States; Lauderdale County (Miss.); Childbirth; Children; Parker family; Wier, Robert Stuart, 1829-1864; Confederate States of America.Army. Mississippi Infantry, 14th. Company B...
Letter, Elizabeth Wier from Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to her daughter Mary Elizabeth Wier. She mentions the recent birth of a Parker grandchild, the health and excitement of her daughter Sue Parker, and the activities of other family...
Agriculture--Mississippi.; Industrialization--Mississippi.; Balance Agriculture with Industry (Miss.); Mississippi--Economic policy.; Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.
Mississippi state law ""Balance Agriculture with Industry,"" 1944, from House Bill 176.
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...
Civil war; United States; Teachers; Education; Union City (Tenn.); La Grange (Tenn.); Oxford (Miss.); Webb, Matilda Ann, 1832-1913
Letter to ''Lit'' (Matilda Ann Boyd Webb) from her cousin, Mattie A. Boyd, and Sophie Boyd Hays. Mattie is visiting Sophie, her school term in Oxford having just ended. Mattie writes that most of the young men are gone from town, and that...
Rice, Donald. Bush, George H.W. Columbus Air Force Base. Meridian, MS. State of the Union. National Guard.
1- Air Force Secretary Donald Rice accepted your invitation to visit Columbus Air Force Base last week. What were his impressions of the facility and the people there?; 2- From Columbus, you flew to Meridian to participate in the conversion of the...
Clinton, Bill. Iraq. Hussein, Saddam. Bush, George HW. Selective Service. Military Draft.
1- President Clinton ordered a cruise missile attack on Iraq’s Intelligence Headquarters in Baghdad in response to evidence that Saddam had plotted to assassinate President Bush. What was your reaction to the attack?; 2- The House voted not to...
4-H Clubs; Farm life-Mississippi; Depressions--1929--United States; Tennessee Valley Authority; Electric power--Mississippi; Tornadoes--Mississippi--Tupelo.
Oral history; First of two interviews conducted with Paul H. Perkins, conducted on February 11, 2005 at Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi State University.
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...
Darden, John P.; Fleming & Baldwin (Firm: Natchez, Miss.); Cotton--Purchasing--Mississippi--Jefferson County.; Confederate States of America--Confiscations and contributions.
Letter from Fleming & Baldwin to John P. Darden, regarding the amount of cotton he turned over to the Confederate treasury.
Civil war; United States; Columbus (Miss.); Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 48th. Company C; Confederate States of America; Young women; Sewing; Lee, W. H. (William Hollinshed), 1841-1910
Letter, Clotille Morrow, a teenaged girl in Columbus, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, telling him that Columbus is ''exceedingly dull,'' with no parties, weddings, or beaux. Captain Baskerville has raised a cavalry battalion with five...
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.
Agriculture--Mississippi.; Industrialization--Mississippi.; Balance Agriculture with Industry (Miss.); Mississippi--Economic policy.; Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.
The ""Balance Agriculture with Industry"" plan of action for community development, released by the Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board.
John C. Stennis Washington DC US Naval Station Beall MD Korth Stroop Bureau of Naval Weapons Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis at US Naval Station in Washington, D.C. Stennis, Senator J. Glenn Beall of MD, USN Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Fred Korth and Rear Admiral Allan L. Reed, USN (ordered as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations) on dock...
John C. Stennis USS John King USS Stribling US Naval Station Glenn Beall Allan L. Reed Admiral PD Stroop Fred Korth Washington DC Stennis
Senator John C. Stennis in Washington, D.C. standing with officials; US Naval Station- Washington DC- Senator John Stennis of Mississippi, Senator J. Glenn Beall of Maryland, Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Fred Korth and Rear Admiral Allan L....
