Estimate and assessment of tax owed on pork: H. Wilson of Copiah County paid 104 pounds pork to the Confederate government, as a 10% tax on 1040 pounds assessed. Payment received by agent T. H. Wheeler at Depot No. 3, 4th Congressional District. ...
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Letter, Loulie Feemster, Bigbee Bottom, Mississippi, to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, opening with news of church and business. She lists the fabrics she bought for clothes and includes a humorous limerick about wives spending...
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...
Edward Windham family farm; multiple views. Farm of 77 acres located on old highway 15 about four miles north of Bay Springs, MS. Jasper Co. Agricultural agent W. C. Jefcoat and Assistant county agent J. W. James assisted with selection of farm...