Reference photocopy of descriptive roll (volume 1) must be used instead.

Biography:

T. Otis Baker was a lawyer from Natchez, Mississippi. He also served as captain of Company A, Tenth Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, and was wounded in the battles of Shiloh and Atlanta during the Civil War. Baker later served in the Adams Light Infantry.

Box List:

  • Box 1: Folder 1: Correspondence
               Folder 2: Descriptive lists and accounts
               Folder 3: Financial papers
               Folder 4: Miscellaneous military papers
               Folder 5: Medical and hospital papers
               Folder 6: Oaths of allegiance
               Folder 7: Orders, general and special
               Folder 8: Personal papers
               Folder 9: Rolls
  • Box 1: Volume 1: Descriptive roll book of Company B, Natchez Southrons, Tenth Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
               Volume 2: Diary (1862–1863)
               Volume 3: Minutes of the meetings of the Silver Grays, a military company of Natchez (1861–1862)

Miscellaneous items:

  • Box 1: Two newspaper clippings concerning Cartwright Eustis
               Six pages of a wartime diary (1863–1864)
               Bill (blank) from H. Gastrell's Hardware Store in Natchez
  • Box 2: Muster roll