Manuscripts

Papers of Zachariah Walker, Woodville, consisting principally of correspondence and accounts of his New Orleans factors. The letters contain considerable information in regard to the cotton market.

Dates:  1903 - 1904.

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Letters to William Burwell Walker (January 24, 1859–March 5, 1904) of Aberdeen, and senator from the Thirty-Eighth District, while the legislature was in session. One letter each from Frank Burkitt, secretary of the Mississippi Exposition Bureau; R. B. Fulton, chancellor of the University of Mississippi; W. L. Hutchinson, director of the Mississippi Experiment Station; and Governor A. H. Longino.

Dates: 1821-1869.

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Seventy-two items and papers of Robert J. Walker (b. July 19, 1801–d. Nov. 11, 1869), United States senator from Mississippi, Secretary of the Treasury, and governor of the Kansas Territory.

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WORTHINGTON-STONE FAMILY PAPERS

Addition to Worthington Family Papers, this collection includes the two volume diary of Amanda Worthington, daughter of Samuel Worthington, of Washington County from January 1, 1862, to October 21, 1865. In this diary she describes the events and life during the Civil War on a Delta plantation. An article about the school life of Amanda Worthington appeared in the Journal of Mississippi History, XXXIV, No. 2, (May 1972).

Dates: 1853; 1855; 1884

Dates: 1820-1878; 1911.

War diary of Charles F. Vogel, a member of Company E, Twenty-ninth Regiment, Missouri Infantry, who began the diary when stationed on the steamboat Adriatic near Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Of special interest are the entries for the period May 15,1863–July 8, 1863, describing Raymond, commenting upon the battles of Champion Hills and Jackson, the citizens of Bovina and other Mississippians, the fall of Vicksburg and a visit to that city two days afterward.