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Matt W. Gage To Frazer And Gage (Undated), Matt W. Gage May 2019

Matt W. Gage To Frazer And Gage (Undated), Matt W. Gage

Correspondence

Concerning Matt W. Gage's fondness for his cousins


Matthew Gage, Jr. To Jere Sanders (Undated), Matthew Gage Jr., Jerrie E. Sanders May 2019

Matthew Gage, Jr. To Jere Sanders (Undated), Matthew Gage Jr., Jerrie E. Sanders

Correspondence

Concerning a debt to Jerrie


Song Lyrics (Undated), Author Unknown May 2019

Song Lyrics (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence

The author prays to god and promies to care for his dying sister's child before she passes.


Poem (Undated), Author Unknown May 2019

Poem (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence

Handwritten poetry


Sallie Miller To Mrs. Atwood (Undated), Sallie Miller May 2019

Sallie Miller To Mrs. Atwood (Undated), Sallie Miller

Correspondence

Sallie Miller asks Mrs. Atwood for help in releasing her husband.


Unknown To Unknown (Undated), Author Unknown May 2019

Unknown To Unknown (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence

Author discusses illness, relatives' children & their own plans for children.


James T. Jones To Martin Jones (Undated), James T. Jones, Martin Jones May 2019

James T. Jones To Martin Jones (Undated), James T. Jones, Martin Jones

Correspondence

James is inquiring to the status of the money he sent home.


James T. Jones To Sack (Undated), James T. Jones May 2019

James T. Jones To Sack (Undated), James T. Jones

Correspondence

James cannot write to Miss Sallie and wants the recipient to show her and his family the letter.


Unknown To Unknown (Undated), Author Unknown May 2019

Unknown To Unknown (Undated), Author Unknown

Correspondence

Nationalistic discussion of secession & oppression; also discusses correspondence home and his next encampment.


B. F. Gentry To W. R. Gentry (12 July 186?), Benjamin F. Gentry, Wiley R. Gentry May 2019

B. F. Gentry To W. R. Gentry (12 July 186?), Benjamin F. Gentry, Wiley R. Gentry

Correspondence

Benjamin discussing food, general conditions and their movements around northern Mississippi, near Tupelo, Ripley and Saltillo.


Col. B. I. Hillssee To Unknown Col. (14 May 1864), B. I. Hill May 2019

Col. B. I. Hillssee To Unknown Col. (14 May 1864), B. I. Hill

Correspondence

Report on collecting Confederate troop stragglers


Series 9. Miscellaneous Documents & Correspondence: Box 9: Folder 22, Author Unknown May 2019

Series 9. Miscellaneous Documents & Correspondence: Box 9: Folder 22, Author Unknown

Correspondence

Handwritten manuscript with seal, "Bar Meeting- At a meeting of the Kosciusko Bar and officers of the Circuit Court".


Manuscript With Seal "Bar Meeting...At A Meeting Of The Kosciusko Bar And Officers Of The Circuit Court...", Author Unknown May 2019

Manuscript With Seal "Bar Meeting...At A Meeting Of The Kosciusko Bar And Officers Of The Circuit Court...", Author Unknown

Correspondence

Regarding appreciation of services of W.S. Featherston for presiding over court.


Manuscript., Author Unknown May 2019

Manuscript., Author Unknown

Correspondence

Regarding the mailing address for D. M. Faith Venables in England.


Letter From Mary Caruthey. Undated, Mary Caruthey May 2019

Letter From Mary Caruthey. Undated, Mary Caruthey

Correspondence

Handwritten letter, undated, from Mary Caruthey, regarding a failure to procure Evangeline.


Letter From J. C. W. To Mrs. Featherston. Undated, Author Unknown May 2019

Letter From J. C. W. To Mrs. Featherston. Undated, Author Unknown

Correspondence

Regarding filling a special order for a dress.


Letter From L. Q. C. Lamar To W. S. Featherston. Undated, L. Q. C. Lamar May 2019

Letter From L. Q. C. Lamar To W. S. Featherston. Undated, L. Q. C. Lamar

Correspondence

Letter sent from Marshall County; regarding the relationship between Lamar and Featherston, support for Featherston in U.S. Senate election, presidential appointment, filling appointed mission to Mexico, Colonel Cushman's federal appointment. Envelope.


Letter Dated From W. A. Anderson To Mrs. Featherston. 8 September, W. A. Anderson May 2019

Letter Dated From W. A. Anderson To Mrs. Featherston. 8 September, W. A. Anderson

Correspondence

Letter sent from Holly Springs; regarding resignation from Philharmonic Society, election as honorary member.


Letter From The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Undated, Goodspeed Publishing Co. May 2019

Letter From The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Undated, Goodspeed Publishing Co.

Correspondence

Letter sent from Chicago, Illinois; regarding enclosed article for publication in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Attached: typed manuscript, regarding a biographical account of W.S. Featherston. Envelopes.


Various Ground Passes, Author Unknown May 2019

Various Ground Passes, Author Unknown

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Ebws 1.6: Undated 19th Century Miscellaneous Material, Handwritten Lyrics, Etc. May 2019

Ebws 1.6: Undated 19th Century Miscellaneous Material, Handwritten Lyrics, Etc.

Correspondence

handwritten lyrics


Ebws 1.5: Undated 19th Century Empty Envelopes And Letter Fragments May 2019

Ebws 1.5: Undated 19th Century Empty Envelopes And Letter Fragments

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Ebws 1.1: Undated 19th Century Correspondence And Fragments May 2019

Ebws 1.1: Undated 19th Century Correspondence And Fragments

Correspondence

No abstract provided.


Roxanna Chapin Gerdine To Eliza Mckinstry (1858), Roxana Chapin Gerdine May 2019

Roxanna Chapin Gerdine To Eliza Mckinstry (1858), Roxana Chapin Gerdine

Correspondence

Roxana writes about the beauty of Washington, GA; in-depth talk of slavery; feelings of guilt; talk of the union and possible secession; Senator Robert Toombs; a local Baptist revival meeting; her sister Lucy attending Mt. Holyoke 'Seminary'; her sister Emily Chapin; and notes that she has been thinking of her deceased mother and sister recently


Unknown To "Brother William", Author Unknown May 2019

Unknown To "Brother William", Author Unknown

Correspondence

Regarding father's will and it being different that the writer had thought. The author of the letter notes that all that has been willed to them is now William's


Highway 61: Good Roads, Great Migrations, And Delta Blues, Samuel Willcoxon May 2019

Highway 61: Good Roads, Great Migrations, And Delta Blues, Samuel Willcoxon

Honors Theses

This thesis analyzes the social and racial factors that contributed to the cultural significance of U.S. Highway 61. First, I explore the background of road building and transportation in the United States. Next I detail the history of convict labor in the South, from convict leasing to convict labor on roads as a result of the Good Roads Movement. Third, I describe how economic and social conditions contributed to the out-migration of southerners during the twentieth century. Lastly, I analyze how social conditions spawned the Mississippi Delta blues, and how Highway 61 became a symbol of opportunity for blues musicians.


A Pro-Life Re-Alignment: Proposing A Shift In Focus Toward Demand-Side Anti-Abortion Advocacy, Dylan Fink May 2019

A Pro-Life Re-Alignment: Proposing A Shift In Focus Toward Demand-Side Anti-Abortion Advocacy, Dylan Fink

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to inspire a change in the conversation within the pro-life community and to create a new approach for anti-abortion proponents to use to reduce the number of abortions in the United States. Based on a supply and demand theory of economics, any pro-life strategy to destroy the market for abortion falls into one of two categories. Until now, the pro-life movement has been focused almost exclusively on limiting the supply of abortion services. While the pro-life movement should continue its efforts to ban and restrict abortion, these efforts will fail to fully end abortion …


Deposit Of W. S. Featherston's Presidential Proclamation May 2019

Deposit Of W. S. Featherston's Presidential Proclamation

Documents

Certificate regarding deposit of W.S. Featherston's Presidential Proclamation, 7 September 1867.


Certificate Regarding The Appointment Of W.S. Featherston To Office Of Circuit Judge May 2019

Certificate Regarding The Appointment Of W.S. Featherston To Office Of Circuit Judge

Documents

Certificate regarding the appointment of W.S. Featherston to office of Circuit Judge of the Second Judicial District of the State of Mississippi.


Statements Upon Death Of General W.S. Featherston. May 2019

Statements Upon Death Of General W.S. Featherston.

Documents

Manuscripts: Statements upon death of General W.S. Featherston.