Z 0734.000
BAKER (T. OTIS) PAPERS


Captain T. Otis Baker of Natchez served in Company A, Tenth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry. Included in this collection are the following items:

  • Letters, April 10, 1862–June 8, 1866 and n.d.
  • List of Civil War battles in which the Natchez Southrons (Company B, Tenth Mississippi Infantry) saw action
  • Roll of the Natchez Southrons
  • An amnesty oath for T. Otis Baker, July 21, 1865
  • Unidentified photographs, probably of T. Otis Baker and his wife Sarah Seaman Baker
  • Calling card for Mr. and Mrs. T. Otis Baker
  • Funeral notice for Sarah Seaman, wife of T. Otis Baker, May 21, 1866
  • Newspaper obituary for Mrs. Sarah Baker, May 29, 1866
  • Article from a January 17, 1864, Atlanta newspaper (extract from a general order directing the execution of three men who were sentenced to be shot for desertion)
  • Four lines of verse discussing love, author unknown
  • Receipt from the University of Virginia for $120 tuition paid by T. Otis Baker for the Fall 1866 session
  • A dance card listing eleven dances