Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: John J. Hood Papers (Z/0748).
Creator/Collector: John J. Hood.
Date(s): 1860-1909.
Size: 3.00 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, March 1963.
Provenance: Purchased by the MDAH from P.L. Rainwater, in 1963.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: John J. Hood Papers (Z/0748), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

John J. Hood 

Major John J. Hood (1837–1910), was a native of Alabama and resident of Forest, Meridian, and Jackson. Hood served in the Confederate army as a scout until 1863 when he transferred to the Reverend C. K. Marshall's staff in Richmond. He was paroled in April 1865. After the Civil War, Hood had a mercantile business in Forest, and later was a bookkeeper for Marks-Rothenberg Company in Meridian. He was also a feature writer for Meridian and Jackson newspapers.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books of Major John J. Hood.  Included in the collection are letters from C. K. Marshall, Clement Evans, Robert Lowry, A. J. McLaurin, Stephen D. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, J. A. P. Campbell, and Frederick Sullens. The papers also contain pictures, funeral notices, manuscripts of articles by Hood, and six scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The other volumes are a diary, April 11, 1860 - June 1862, and account books for 1874, 1876, 1882-1883, and 1906-1909. The volume for 1876 contains a detailed description of his trip to the eastern part of the United States.