Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

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Diaries of farmer, teacher, minister in North Mississippi, 46 volumes.

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Four page letter and transcript from Sid Nesmith (1833-1877) to his mother Mrs. Geo. W. Nesmith (1799-1885) while he was serving as Special Agent of the Treasury Department in Mississippi. Of particular importance is the early written reference to the game of Base Ball. Written in ink, very legible and retains the stamped envelope.

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An innocuous telegram documenting President Andrew Johnson's deliberations regarding the path Reconstruction would soon take throughout the South.

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Reconstruction Era memoir.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a typescript of The Angry Scar: The Story of Reconstruction, written by Hodding Carter and published in 1959, by Doubleday as part of a series entitled, "Mainstreams of America," the third work dealing with the Civil War.The Angry Scar deals with the decade after the Civil War and how the South and its people lived during Reconstruction. The story is taken from diaries, newspaper articles and correspondence of the times with contemporary comments...

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Family letters, genealogy, and history of Clinton, Mississippi.

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Letters from military camp sites, family letters, and deeds of land in Newton County, Mississippi.

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Letters to Godman in Terry, Mississippi regarding Civil War and Reconstruction.

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Family correspondence, scrapbook, other of Mississippi railroad entrepreneur, politician, judge, and founder of Hattiesburg, Laurel, and Gulfport, Mississippi.

Scope and Contents The three letters in this collection, written February 22, March 28, and April 26, 1923, were sent to Mr. J.E. Boos of Albany, New York. They describe Harwell's experiences during the siege of Vicksburg in 1863 and his unit's action during the Atlanta campaign of 1864. Harwell writes of congenial relationships between Northerners and Southerners both during and after the war and mentions two reunions of Confederate veterans which he attended, one in Louisville, Kentucky, date unknown, and...

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A collection of photographs, booklets, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, and letters about Mississippi.

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Written for the Newton County (Mississippi) Centennial.

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Letters from a Confederate soldier with the Mississippi Volunteers.

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Business records of a mercantile business in south central Mississippi.

Scope and Contents This collection contains two printed rosters of the distribution of officers and companies of the Fourth Military District, Department of Mississippi, dated November 1, 1868, and February 1, 1869. The documents were originally in pamphlet form, but at some point, they were opened out and laminated, as a preservation measure.The front side of each roster indicates the district name (Fourth Military District), the commanding officer (Brevet Brigadier General Alvan C. Gillem), the...

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Claim to the U.S. Commissioners of Claims, plus two letters of support, 1871.