Plantations; Plantation overseers; Choctaw Agency (Oktibbeha County, Miss.); Civil war; United States; African-Americans; Slavery; Agriculture; Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston), 1807-1891; Resaca, Battle of, Resaca, Ga., 1864; Atlanta (Ga.);...
Letter from Rice plantation manager A. B. Parks in Choctaw Agency, Mississippi, to Augusta Hopkins Rice in Mobile, Alabama, opening with the health of the slaves and the state of the crops. Parks writes that his son, who was wounded after fighting...
Feemster family; Selma (Ala.); Railroad travel; Teaching; Feemster, Mary Louise (Loulie), 1838-1867; Chunky (Miss.)
Letter, Alex W. Feemster in Selma, Alabama, to his wife, Loulie Feemster, agreeing that her teaching in Chunky, Mississippi would not help their situation because of the timing of the trains running between the two towns. He tells her that he has...
Feemster family; Infants; Traditional medicine; Lowndes County (Miss.); Sewing; Religion; Stainback, George Tucker, 1829-1902; Feemster, Alexander Whitfield, 1827-1911
Letter, Loulie Feemster to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, mentioning home and sewing matters and the text of the morning sermon. She had feared that Mattie would have the ''Flux,'' but she took care of it with rhubarb, and the...
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.
Brister C. Cosnahan family farm; multiple views. Farm of 352 acres located four miles west of Summit, MS on highway 98. Pike Co. Agricultural agent George Mullendore and Assistant county agent Carl Izard assisted with selection of farm family.
In a series of letters, J. M. Marmuck asks that his son Vivian be excused from work in the field, drawing, and religious services except for those that are non-denominational. He is Catholic and thinks it would be wrong for him. In later letters he...
About 1908 Columbia stopped using wax for its records. This is a celluloid indestructable record dating from about 1910 or so. These can also be labled Oxford. These cylinders can be 2 and 4 minute records. 2 minutes have the 1902 date without...
About 1908 Columbia stopped using wax for its records. This is a celluloid indestructable record dating from about 1910 or so. These can also be labled Oxford. These cylinders can be 2 and 4 minute records. 2 minutes have the 1902 date without...
About 1908 Columbia stopped using wax for its records. This is a celluloid indestructable record dating from about 1910 or so. These can also be labled Oxford. These cylinders can be 2 and 4 minute records. 2 minutes have the 1902 date without...