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Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection
MUM00743
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Summary Information Repository University of Mississippi Libraries Biographical Note Title Scope and Content Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection Administrative Information ID Related Materials MUM00743 Controlled Access Headings Date [inclusive] Collection Inventory 1827-2014 Series 1: Chronological Extent Files 12.0 Linear feet 9 boxes Series 2: Subject Files Abstract Series 3: Jacob Research files and unpublished manuscripts of Dr. M. Thompson Manuscript Carolyn Ross on the subject of Jacob Thompson Drafts (1810-1885). Series 4: Subject Files
Preferred Citation Carolyn Jones Ross Research Files Collection (MUM00743), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi
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Biographical Note
Jacob Thompson: Jacob Thompson was born in Leasburg, North Carolina in 1810 and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1831. He was admitted to the bar in 1834 and opened a law practice in Pontotoc, Mississippi. In 1839, voters elected Thompson to the U.S. House of Representatives where he remained until 1851 when he lost a reelection contest. President James Buchanan appointed Thompson U.S. Secretary of the Interior in 1857. He resigned from the office in January 1861 to become Inspector General of the Confederate States Army. Later, he joined the army as an officer, served as an aide to General P.G.T. Beauregard, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thompson was present at the battles of Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, and Tupelo. In 1864, President Jefferson Davis asked Thompson to head a secret delegation to Canada where he appears to have led Confederate Secret Service operations. Thompson’s name arises in connection to many anti-Union plots and allegations of involvement with Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth. After the Civil War, Thompson fled for while to England and Canada, eventually returning to Memphis, Tennessee to manage his holdings. He served on the board of the University of the South at Sewanee. Thompson died on 24 March 1885 and is buried in Memphis at Elmwood Cemetery. Carolyn Jones Ross: Carolyn Jones Ross was born on 18 March 2014 to parents L. Bruce Jones and Mary Jones of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She earned bachelor and master degrees from Louisiana State University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A speech- language pathologist, Dr. Ross worked in Iberville Parish, Louisiana public schools, and Louisiana State University Medical School before entering private practice in New Orleans. She was an early pioneer in the use of Cued Speech, a phoneme-based system of hand shapes and positions that clarifies ongoing speech. In addition to her professional career, Dr. Ross performed community service, especially in the field of arts and heritage. She participated in the New Orleans Symphony Chorus and served on the board of the Symphony Volunteers Inc. For over a quarter century, Dr. Ross was a volunteer reader for WRBH-FM’s Radio Reading Service. The recipient of many New Orleans honors, she received a Special Certificate of Appreciation from the mayor in 1987. After the death of her husband Raphael Ross Jr, M.D., she moved to Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Ross served on the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council board and the Oxford- Lafayette Heritage Foundation board. She researched the life of Oxford resident and politician Jacob Thompson (1810-1885) with the intent of writing a biography but died away on 18 March 2014 before completing the project. Prior to her passing, her research helped to develop the historic marker at the Jacob Thompson Home Place site as well as interpretive materials at the L.Q.C. Lamar House.
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The collection contains Dr. Ross’s research files on Jacob Thompson. The archive has preserved the original folders and labels (although the container list spells out abbreviations). The files are arranged into four series. Series 1 preserves the integrity of a section of Dr. Ross’s files that reflect the chronological sequence of Thompson’s life. Series 2 (letter size folders) and Series 3 (legal size folders) are subject files on Thompson (as well as three folders on the Oxford, Mississippi African American Rosenwald school historic marker project). Series 4 holds drafts of her book manuscript on Thompson.
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Administrative Information
Publication Information University of Mississippi Libraries 2014
Access Restrictions The collection is open to researchers.
Additions No further additions are expected to this collection.
Acquisition Information Dr. Joyce Sidorfsky donated the collection in September 2014 following the death of her friend Dr. Carolyn Ross.
Processing Information Political Papers Archivist Leigh McWhite completed processing the collection in October 2014.
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Related Materials
Related Materials at the University of Mississippi Other Jacob Thompson manuscript material in the Archives & Special Collections: F.A.P. Barnard Collection. Includes letters from Jacob Thompson (2 boxes). Hopson Collection. Material related to the Nicholas Thompson home in Leasburg, North Carolina built in the early 1800s and home of Jacob Thompson (1 box). Willie and Marjorie Lewis Memorial Collection. Contains correspondence, genealogical research, clippings, photographs, and legal documents related to the life and career of Jacob Thompson (3 boxes). Carolyn Jones Ross Memorial Collection of Personal Papers of Jacob Thompson and Catherine Jones Thompson. Original letters, journal, and business documents of the Jacob Thompson family (1 box). Publications by or about Jacob Thompson in the Archives & Special Collections: Arthur Ben Chitty, “Jacob Thompson; He Fought One Union But Built Another – at Sewanee.” Reprint from Sewanee Alumni News (15 February 1956). Call Number: E664 T3 C3. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Address of Com. M.F. Maury, Before the Fair of the Agricultural & Mechanical Soc. Of Memphis, Tenn. Delivered at the Fair Grounds…Oct. 17th, 1871 (Memphis: Appeal Job Office, 1871). Include introductory remarks by Jacob Thompson. Call Number: HD1769 M3. P.L. Rainwater, ed. “Letters to and from Jacob Thompson.” Reprint from Journal of Southern History Vol. 6, No. 1 (February 1940). Call Number: E664 T3 L3. Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil: Hon. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi (1850). Call Number: E415.9 T45 P64. Jacob Thompson, Address, Delivered on Occasion of the Opening of the University of the State of Mississippi: In Behalf of the Board of Trustees, November 6, 1848, by Hon. Jacob Thompson, M.C…. (Memphis: Franklin Board and Job Office, 1849). Call Number: LB41 T5. Jacob Thompson, Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents (Washington, DC: J.T. Towers, 1851). Call Number: E423 T47. Jacob Thompson, Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents (Jacinto, MS: W.H. Jones, 1851). Call Number: E423 T472 1851. Jacob Thompson, Increase of the Army: Speech of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1847, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Bill to Raise for a Limited Time an Additional Military Force, and for Other Purposes (Washington, DC: Office of Blair & Rives, 1847). Call Number: E409 T56 1847. Jacob Thompson, Letters from the Hon. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, and the Hon. Frederick P. Stanton of Memphis District, Tenn., Representatives in Congress, and a Letter from T. Nixon Van Dyke, Esq., on the Subject of the Southwestern Railroad (Richmond: Shepherd and Colin, 1849). Call Number: HE2792 L992 1849b. Jacob Thompson, Speech of Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Civil and Diplomatic Bill, and the Presidential Election. Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 21, 1848 (Washington, DC: Towers, 1848). Call Number: E415.9 T45 S6 1848.
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Controlled Access Headings
Geographic Name(s)
Mississippi -- History -- 19th century
Personal Name(s)
Thompson, Jacob, 1810-1885 -- Archives
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Collection Inventory
Series 1: Chronological Files Box 1
Folder 1: Timothy S. Bottoms, M.A. Thesis “From a Needle to an Anvil…” 1991 Scope and Content Study of Connally General Store in Leasburg, NC 1881- 1895
Folder 2: Caswell County/Leasburg History
Folder 3: The Heritage of Caswell County NC 1989 Scope and Content J. Whitlow, Editor
Folder 4: 1827 and Earlier
Folder 5: Leasburg Area Contacts Scope and Content Regarding the Jacob Thompson Research
Folder 6: University of North Carolina 1827-1833, 1859 with President Buchanan, 1860 State Committee to NC Folder 7: Leasburg Material
Folder 8: Jacob Thompson 1827-1833 Scope and Content et al. at University of North Carolina
Folder 9 1828-1834
Folder 10 1835-1837
Folder 11 1838
Folder 12 1839
Folder 13 1840
Folder 14 January-December 1841
Folder 15: Jacob Thompson Other than House Business 1842
Folder 16 1842
Folder 17 1843
Folder 18 1844
Folder 19 1845
Folder 20 1846
Folder 21 1847
Folder 22: Jacob Thompson Personal Life Outside 30th Congress, 6 December 1847 – 14 August 1848, 4 December 1848 – 3 March 1849
Folder 23: 30th Congress December 1847, January- February 1848
Folder 24 March-April 1848
Box 2
Folder 1 May-December 1848
Folder 2: Material for Speech on Jacob Thompson in the House of Representatives, 30th Congress 1848-1849
Folder 3: Early Development of University of Mississippi Library Scope and Content Thesis by Nichols
Folder 4 January-June 1849
Folder 5 July-December 1849
Folder 6: Summary January-June, July-December 1850
Folder 7 January-June 1850
Folder 8 July-November 1850
Folder 9: Congress, 2nd Session December 1850-4 March 1851
Folder 10 1851
Folder 11 1852
Folder 12 1853
Folder 13 1854
Folder 14: Property Records for Jacob Thompson Land & Negro Slaves
Folder 15: Home Place, Oxford, Being Built 1853
Folder 16: Jacob Thompson’s Home Place Site & House Now
Folder 17: Jacob Thompson’s Real Estate 1835-1881 Scope and Content Memphis 1835-1881 & After His Death
Folder 18: Property Records
Folder 19 1855
Folder 20 1856
Folder 21 1857
Folder 22: Jacob Thompson at Interior Department
Folder 23 1858
Folder 24 January-June 1859
Folder 25 July-December 1859
Box 3 Folder 1: Buchanan Administration January-June 1860
Folder 2 January-June 1860
Folder 3: Summary July-December 1860
Folder 4 July-December 1860
Folder 5: Collateral Material 1860-1861
Folder 6: A Country Editor Faces Secession 1860-1861 Scope and Content “Oxford Intelligencer” by E.V. Capati
Folder 7: Letters from Kate Thompson to Mary Cobb January-June 1860 Scope and Content 4 Letters
Folder 8: Mary Chesnut Civil War Diary 1861-1865
Folder 9 January-April 1861
Folder 10: Summary Materials 1861
Folder 11: Duncan McCollum's Diary 1861
Folder 12: Reveille in Washington, Margaret Leech 1861- 1865, 1941 Scope and Content Extensive Bibliography
Folder 13 May-August 1861
Folder 14 September-December 1861
Folder 15: CSA Jefferson Davis Administration September-December 1861
Folder 16: Confederate Medical Laboratories 1862
Folder 17: The Capture of Holly Springs 1862 Scope and Content J.G. Dupree 1862 & Unidentified Bibliography
Folder 18: Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant 1885 Scope and Content Only One Mention of Jacob Thompson Folder 19 January-June 1862
Folder 20 July-December 1862
Folder 21 1863
Folder 22: House Journal 1863 Scope and Content Regular Session Jacob Thompson Attending
Folder 23: Jefferson Davis, CSA Administration 1863
Folder 24 January-June 1864
Folder 25 July-September 1864
Folder 26 October-December 1864
Folder 27: Confederate Commission in Canada
Folder 28: St. Albain's Raid 1864 Scope and Content Trial Transcripts, Newspaper Accounts
Folder 29: NIAGARA “Peace Conference” 1864 Scope and Content Clifton House
Folder 30: Motives for the Burning of Oxford, Mississippi – Howard T. Dimick 1946 Scope and Content Journal of Mississippi History
Folder 31: Summary 1865
Folder 32 January-April 1865
Folder 33 May-August 1865
Folder 34 September-November-December 1865
Folder 35: Collateral: Contemporaries 1865
Folder 36 January-June 1866
Folder 37 July-December 1866
Folder 38 January-June 1867
Box 4 Folder 1 July-December 1867
Folder 2 1868
Folder 3 1869
Folder 4 1870
Folder 5 1871
Folder 6 1872
Folder 7 1873
Folder 8 1874
Folder 9 1875
Folder 10 1876
Folder 11 1877
Folder 12 1878
Folder 13 1879
Folder 14: University of the South: Sewanee
Folder 15: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
Folder 16 1880
Folder 17: Jacob Thompson’s Will: Lafayette County & Shelby County
Folder 18: Map of Memphis 1881
Folder 19 1881
Folder 20 1882
Folder 21 1883
Folder 22 1884
Folder 23: Collateral 1885
Folder 24 1885
Folder 25: Jacob Thompson’s Will & Catherine Thompson’s Will Folder 26: Elmwood Cemetery
Folder 27: Thompson Family Bible
Folder 28: Gravestone’s Engraving, Cemetery Records Scope and Content Oxford and Environs
Folder 29 1886
Folder 30 1886-
Folder 31 1887-1888
Folder 32 1889-1891
Folder 33 1892-1900
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Series 2: Subject Files Scope and Content (Letter Size Folders)
Box 4
Folder 34: Biographies of Jacob Thompson
Folder 35: Copied Materials Scope and Content Copied for Chronological File and/or Contain Errors
Folder 36: Materials from Books and Newpapers 1900- 1965
Folder 37: Life of Jacob Thompson 1930 Scope and Content M.A. Thesis by Dorothy Oldham
Folder 38: Internet: Articles Downloaded
Folder 39: Banking in England by Jacob Thompson
Folder 40: Articles 1990-Present
Folder 41: “Letters to and from Jacob Thompson” Scope and Content Rainwater, P.L. Article
Folder 42: Education Support by Jacob Thompson Scope and Content University of Mississippi, Female Academy, University of the South
Folder 43: Jacob Thompson Jr. Mentioned in Jacob Thompson’s Will
Folder 44: Macon Thompson 1839-1873
Folder 45: Jacob Thompson 1966- Scope and Content Unpublished Materials about Him
Folder 46: Nicholas Thompson (Lucretia) as Research Subject
Folder 47: Letters from Kanthering Andrews to Ela Ray Chacy Scope and Content Typescripts Talks of Her Jacob Thompson Connection
Folder 48: Museum Brown Bag Talk “Macon and the Watch”
Folder 49: Uncle Joseph’s Children Josephine (Joey) & Samuel Maverick T. – J.G. Buchanan Book
Folder 50: Jacob Thompson’s Siblings / Other Kin
Folder 51: Current News Items (Jacob Thompson Related)
Folder 52: Bibliographical Entries to Follow up on
Folder 53: Bibliographies
Folder 54: Duplicate Materials
Folder 55: Letters from Kate Thompson to Mary Cobb 1860 Scope and Content 10 letters
Folder 56: Jacob Young Thompson
Folder 57: Macon's Gold Watch Folder 58: Jacob/Catherine Helped Extended Family
Folder 59: Family Information 1860s-1870s Scope and Content Macon and Jacob Thompson Especially
Folder 60: Macon and Jacob Thompson Especially
Folder 61: The Great Book: Calvary Episcopal Church & Archival Items
Folder 62: Will Lewis/Olivia Nabors Family Papers/Photographs
Folder 63: Early History of Oxford - Ann Percy 2008
Folder 64: Relatives and Friends
Folder 65: Letters from Brothers to Jacob Thompson Scope and Content Typescripts in Year Folders
Folder 66: Cemetery, Church and Library, Jacob Thompson in Memphis
Folder 67: Varina Howell Wife of Jefferson Davis from Rowland’s Wife of Jefferson Davis 1927
Folder 68: Lucius Q.C. Lamar: His Life, Times, and Speeches 1825-1873 Scope and Content Published 1895
Folder 69: Jacob Thompson, A.G. Brown, J. Giddings
Folder 70: Biography of Jacob Thompson for University Press of Mississippi Scope and Content Frank Windham, from [Jane Bachana] File, Not Published
Box 5
Folder 1: C. Macon Thompson Year by Year, Age 6 and Jacob Thompson’s Activities 1845
Folder 2: Places
Folder 3: Panola, Panola County
Folder 4: Mississippi, State of Folder 5: Tanner Early 1800s
Folder 6: A History of Mississippi, Vol. 1, Richard A. McLemore 1973 Scope and Content Ed., USM Press 1973
Folder 7: Overview/Dates Jacob Thompson’s Life
Folder 8: Chickasaw Center 10 June 2012 Scope and Content Research, Sulphur, Oklahoma
Folder 9: William Davis Notes, Correspondence Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson, CC Clay, Sanders, Beall, 1970 Article, Etc.
Folder 10: John Crews Play “Of Two Minds” and Talk Comparing F.A.P. Barnard with Jacob Thompson
Folder 11: From These Hills: A History of Pontotoc County 1976 Scope and Content Pages on 1836-1840s, Story of Pontotoc Date?, Regarding Jacob Thompson’s Ear
Folder 12: “Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi” Joseph G. Baldwin 1853
Folder 13: Public Men and Events Vol. II (From Monroe 1817 – Fillmore 1853) Nathan Sargent 1875
Folder 14: Notes to Myself Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson Project
Folder 15: Library of Congress, National Archives
Folder 16: Correspondence Scope and Content Regarding K. Gibbs & Hannah McKee, Jacob Thompson Materials
Folder 17: Inquiries Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson Folder 18: Jane Gray Buchanan
Folder 19: Macon Kirkman
Folder 20: University of Mississippi Holdings Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson
Folder 21: Mississippi State Archives
Folder 22: Internet Resources Scope and Content Regarding Writing, Getting Published, Etc.
Folder 23: Updates on Some of Jacob Thompson’s Major Interests
Folder 24: Updates on Some of Jacob Thompson’s Major Interests
Folder 25: Tulane Special Collections
Folder 26: Memphis Public Library
Folder 27: William C. (Jack) Davis
Folder 28: Index Cards in Manuscript Division Library of Congress Scope and Content Showing Letters to and from Jacob Thompson (I Have Copies of Those Marked)
Folder 29: Tennessee State Library & Archives Scope and Content Memphis Newspapers of 1800s
Folder 30: University of Memphis Library
Folder 31: James McPherson Booknotes Transcripts 1994
Folder 32: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Special Collections
Folder 33: “A Celebration of Jacob Thompson’s 200th Birthday”
Folder 34: Faulkner’s Country: The Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha, Donald H. Doyle 2001 Folder 35: The Disruption of American Democracy, Roy Franklin Nichols 1948
Folder 36: Jacob Thompson Essay for Mississippi Encyclopedia 1 September 2003
Folder 37: Jacob Thompson, Ann Percy
Folder 38: Hugh Goforth Materials
Folder 39: Speech for Rotary Club 20 March 2007 Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson
Folder 40: Kate Thompson Kirkman
Folder 41: The University of Mississippi, The Formative Years 1848-1906
Folder 42: Biographical Entries Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson
Folder 43: Information on Internet Research Resources [University of North Carolina, Etc.]
Folder 44: Visuals for May 11 Talk
Folder 45: Miscellaneous Notes
Folder 46: Thompson Family Papers at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Library
Folder 47: Miscellaneous Scope and Content Regarding sources
Folder 48: Genealogy Including Collaterals
Folder 49: Form for Contributors to Jacob Thompson Project
Folder 50: Jack Waugh
Folder 51: Welcome to Leasburg Community
Folder 52: University of Mississippi Its First Hundred Years, Cabaniss
Folder 53: Oldham Thesis Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson
Folder 54: Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Folder 55: Skipworth Historical and Genealogical Society
Folder 56: Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery – Farrow, Lang and Frank Hartford Courant
Folder 57: Caswell County Correspondence
Folder 58: Person County
Folder 59: Don Doyle Emails – Read for Oxford Section
Box 6
Folder 1: Faulkner, Fortunes, and Flames
Folder 2: Script: Rotary Club Speech 20 March 2007 Scope and Content Regarding Jacob Thompson
Folder 3: Quotes from Founding Fathers Scope and Content Regarding Moral/Religious Foundation of United States
Folder 4: Lucius Q.C. Lamar by Son-in-Law E. Mayes
Folder 5: Jacob Thompson Timeline
Folder 6: Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick 1921
Folder 7: Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society
Folder 8: Thompson House, Oxford, Mississippi
Folder 9: The Clays of Alabama, Ruth Ketring Nuermbreger 2003
Folder 10: L.Q.C. Lamar Lifeline, David Sansing
Folder 11: Notes
Folder 12: Quotes from Jacob Thompson Letters in My Personal Possession
Folder 13: The Works of James Buchanan Vol. XII Biographical
Folder 14: The Works of James Buchanan Vol. XI Speeches, Correspondence, State Papers 1860-1868
Folder 15: The Works of James Buchanan Vol. X Speeches, Correspondence, State Papers 1856-1860
Folder 16: Johanna Isom Interview, Slave Narrative, Ex- Slave of Jacob Thompson
Folder 17: U.S. Department of Interior
Folder 18: Updates on Matters Jacob Thompson Worked on in the House and Secretary of Interior 1839-1851, 1857-1861
Folder 19: Draft 13 of Congress 1st Session 1847-1848
Folder 20: Supplementary Notes on Jacob Thompson in 26th-31st Congresses
Folder 21: History of U.S. House of Representatives, House Documents 103-324, 103rd Congress, 2d Session
Folder 22: Congressional Delegation from Mississippi 1817-
Folder 23: U.S. House of Representatives Mississippi Delegation/Statistics
Folder 24: House of Representatives, Description, Seating Charts in Jacob Thompson’s Time
Folder 25: “Back of the Big House” J.M. Vlach
Folder 26: Washington DC People, Physical Traits, Events, Etc.
Folder 27: Biographies Important Congressmen/Presidents 1839-1851
Folder 28: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi 1851-
Folder 29: Lafayette County, Mississippi
Folder 30: Pontotoc, Mississippi
Folder 31: Life in Washington, and Life Here and There 1859
Folder 32: The Year of Decision 1846, Bernard Devoto 1943
Folder 31: Interior Department Folder 32: Mexican War
Folder 33: Antebellum – Jacob Thompson
Folder 34: Congress
Folder 35: Jacob Thompson Being a Villain, 1. John Wilkes Booth/Jacob Thompson Abraham Lincoln Kidnap/Assassination Plot, 2. Embezzling Confederate Funds
Folder 36: Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of Slavery, Noah Brooks 1904
Folder 37: Abraham Lincoln and Jacob Thompson
Folder 38: Jacob Thompson & Abraham Lincoln, Compare & Contrast (Early Life, Career, 30th Congress, Later)
Folder 39: April 1865: The Month that Saved America, Jay Winik 2001
Folder 40: Lee’s Miserables, Gary Gallagher, Editor
Folder 41: Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest, Jan Morris
Folder 42: Material Scope and Content Regarding “Making One Whole,” Slaveowner – Remunerated Emancipation on Freed Slaves – Prepare for Citizenship
Folder 43: “Abraham Lincoln’s Missed Opportunities for the Highest Service to Our Nation” Letter to ? C. White, Jr.
Folder 44: Sources for “Abraham Lincoln’s Missed Opportunities for Highest Service to Our Nation”
Folder 45: Time Line of Civil War
Folder 46: Serious Articles Scope and Content Regarding Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison
Folder 47: A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, John G. Nicolay 1903 Scope and Content Pages 361-2 and 544
Folder 48: Current Discussions of Civil War, Secession, Etc. in the New Millennium
Folder 49: Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Edward Steers Jr.
Folder 50: The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion 1860-’65 Vol. 1, Horace Greeley 1885
Folder 51: Confederate Mississippi: People & Policies of a Cotton State in Wartime, John K. Bettersworth 1943
Folder 52: Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency, John C. Waught 1997
Folder 53: Portions of A. Lincoln through 2nd Bull Run
Folder 54: Civil War General Information
Folder 55: Civil War and Oxford, Mississippi
Folder 56: The Civil War, Time-Life
Folder 57: Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History, James Horan 1954
Folder 58: Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, Re: Confederate Emissaries in Canada 1995 Scope and Content Pages 521-523
Folder 59: The Day Lincoln Was Shot, Jim Bishop 1955, 1983
Folder 60: Lincoln’s Assassination
Folder 61: Abraham Lincoln
Folder 62: What Shall We Do with the Negro? Lincoln, White Racism, and Civil War America, Paul D. Escott 2009
Box 7
Folder 30: The Letters of Kate Thompson to Mary Ann Cobb 1858-1861
Folder 1: Confederates in Canada
Folder 2: Jefferson Davis
Folder 3: Canadian Newspaper Articles 1864-1865 Scope and Content Regarding American Civil War
Folder 4: Active Service: Castleman 1864-1866, 1917
Folder 5: Canada & the United States: The Civil War Years – Robin Wink 1960, 1970
Folder 6: Secret Missions of the Civil War, Philip Van Doren Stern, from First-Hand Accounts 1939
Folder 7: Canada Research 2004
Folder 8: Refugeeing in Tyler, Texas
Folder 9: Confederate Operatives in Canada and the North, Kinchen 1970 Scope and Content Pages with Quotes
Folder 10: Current Correspondence with Canada or About Confederates in Canada 1864-1869
Folder 11: Cameron Notes JPB to Jacob Thompson, Other Letters Copied by Cameron in Canada, Museum of Confederacy – Brackenbrough Library
Folder 12: Cape Fear – Wilmington to Canada
Folder 13: Confederate Commission to Canada, Castleman, Active Service 1864-1865 1917
Folder 14: Canadian Public Opinion on American Civil War
Folder 15: Confederate Commission Canada 1864-1865
Folder 16: Abraham Lincoln, One Volume Edition, Carl Sandburg 1936/1954
Folder 17: Myths after Lincoln, Lloyd Lewis 1929-1941
Folder 18: The Confederate Government 1861-1865
Folder 19: Civil War
Folder 20: Sewanee University of South File on Jacob Thompson, Jacob Thompson, Arthur Ben Chitty
Folder 21: Arthur Ben Chitty/ Sewanee
Folder 22: University of the South Jacob Thompson Era Folder 23: Calvary Episcopal Church Files Scope and Content Sent by Connie Marshall
Folder 24: Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment 16 March 1995
Folder 25: Post-Civil War – Jacob Thompson
Folder 26: Self-Guided Tour of Jacob Thompson Scope and Content Related Sites, Brochure: CUB funded?
Folder 27: Jacob Thompson Historic Marker Dedication Program
Folder 28: Jacob Thompson Home Place Site Historic Marker Project
Folder 29: L.Q.C. Lamar House
Folder 30: Historic Marker Forms, Mississippi Department of Archives & History
Folder 31: Jacob Thompson Home Site Highway Marker Project
Folder 32: Joel Wiliamson Had Shared a Portion of His Manuscript Scope and Content Regarding William Faulkner and the South with Dr. Howorth, I Copied These Pages from that Material
Folder 33: William Faulkner’s Connection of Compson to Jacob Thompson 1975
Folder 34: Thompson as Faulkner’s Compsons
Folder 35: From Faulkner Fortunes and Flames
Folder 36: William Faulkner and Southern History – Joel 1993
Folder 37: Oxford History/Faulkner
Folder 38: Ageless Heroes (Susie Mitchell Marshall/Burns Belfry Church/Rosenwald School Marker)
Folder 39: Rosenwald School Project
Folder 40: Rosenwald School Marker Dedication Speech Folder 41: Architectural Terms, Basic Information
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Series 3: Jacob Thompson Manuscript Drafts Box 7
Folder 42: First Drafts – Jacob Thompson Book Introduction
Folder 43: Jacob Thompson Part 1
Folder 44: Jacob Thompson: Quintessential American Part One
Folder 45: Jacob Thompson Quintessential American Part __ “The High Price of Loyalty"
Folder 46: Jacob Thompson, a Quintessential American 29 December 2011 Scope and Content 95 Pages Printed
Folder 47: Jacob Thompson: A Quintessential American, Part 2, Jacob Thompson Comes to Mississippi
Folder 48: Part 2 Latest Version 22 August 2011
Folder 49: Part 3 Jacob Thompson Envisions
Part 50: Part 3 Jacob Thompson –University of North Carolina Comes into __ Diverted from Dream of Life in Natchez
Folder 51: Part 4 Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi 1839- 1847
Folder 52: Jacob Thompson Book Part 5 15 September 2011 Scope and Content Pages 1-54 Notes
Folder 53: Part 5. Mr. Thompson of Mississippi 1847- 1851
Folder 54: Jacob Thompson Book Part 5 Section 2 Scope and Content Pages 55-103, Notes 7-11 Folder 55: Jacob Thompson Chapter on 5th Term in House of Representatives
Folder 56: Part 6 Mr. Thompson, Contributions as a Private Citizen Living in Oxford, Mississippi 1851-1857
Folder 57: Book Draft Part 5 Jacob Thompson as Congressman 1839-1841 26th Congress in Detail
Folder 58: Part 7. Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1857 – 8 January 1861
Folder 59: Part 7. Mr. Thompson, Secretary of the Interior, 1857 – 8 January 1861
Folder 60: Part 9. Jacob Thompson, Exile in Europe and Canada April 1865 – December 1869
Folder 61: Part 10. Jacob Thompson, Convenient Political Scapegoat into 20th Century
Folder 62: Miscellaneous Drafts
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Series 4: Subject Files Scope and Content (Legal Size Folders)
Box 8
Folder 1: Jacob Thompson
Folder 2: Scrapbook/Pictures Jacob Thompson Project
Folder 3: Nicholas Thompson Property
Folder 4: Research in Canada, Canadian Point of View on Our War
Folder 5: Local History – Oxford, Mississippi
Folder 6: Local History Written Mainly by Jack Lamar Mayfield
Box 9
Folder 1: Interior Outgoing Letters: Indian Affairs 23 June 1858-1 February 1860 Scope and Content (Typescripts Filed by Year)
Folder 2: Wills Scope and Content Copies of Original Pages of Will Book
Folder 3: A Rebel in Yankeeland, W. Stanley Hoole
Folder 4: An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government, William C. Davis 2001
Folder 5: Writing the Civil War, Edited by James McPherson & William J. Cooper Jr.
Folder 6: Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour – William C. Davis 1991
Folder 7: Breckinridge Statesman Soldier Symbol, William C. Davis 197?
Folder 8: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation, Joseph J. Ellis 2000
Folder 9: Judah P. Benjamin The Jewish Confederate, Eli N. Evans 1988
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