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State of Mississippi
History & Genealogy

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Source:
HISTORY OF
MISSISSIPPI
THE HEART OF THE SOUTH
By
Dunbar Rowland, LL.D.
Director of the Mississippi State Department of
Archives and History

VOLUME I - HISTORY
VOLUME II - HISTORY - Continued

ILLUSTRATED
Chicago-Jackson
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1925

VOLUME I - VOLUME II

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION  
CHAPTER I - PHYSICAL FEATURES OF MISSISSIPPI 23
   - Water-Sheds of Mississippi
 - The Mississippi River Front
 - Width and Depth of Bottom Lands
 - Origin of the Name Mississippi
 - Surface Geology and the Soils of Mississippi
 - Foundation of the Agricultural Soils
 - Tertiary Deposits and Fertilizers
 - Cretaceous Period and Rotten Limestone
 - The Prairie Lands of the State
 - Other Regional Descriptions
 - Commercial Stones of the Carboniferous Era
 - Springs, Wells and Mineral Waters 		 
CHAPTER II - ABORIGINES OF MISSISSIPPI 43
   - Archaeology of Mississippi
 - In the Mississippi Valley
 - The Pearl
 - Sacred Mound of the Choctaws
 - Erection of the Mound
 - Resting Place for the Sacred Pole
 - History of Nanih Waiya
 - The Chickasaws and the Tombigbee Valley
 - Indian Tribes of Mississippi
 - The Choctaws
 - The Warlike, Unconquerable Chickasaws
 - Chickasaw Customs
 - Customs and Characteristics of the Natchez
 - Minor Mississippi Tribes		  
CHAPTER III - LEGENDS, MYTHS AND ELOQUENCE OF MISSISSIPPI INDIANS 78
   - The Legend of Atala
 - The Romance of Stel-O-Na and the Sieur De Mace
 - Legend of the Natchez Chief of the Beard
 - The Chief of the Beard's War Song
 - Biloxi Indian Legends, the Garden of Eden
 - How the Dog Delivered Man
 - The Wolf and the Opossum
 - Pascagoula Indian Legend
 - Legend of the Cherokee Rose
 - The Ring in the Tree
 - The Legend of Pushmataha's Birth
 - Eloquence of Mississippi Indians
 - Natchez Indian Eloquence, Speech of an Old Chief
 - Choctaw Indian Eloquence, Speech of Alibamo Mingo
 - Speech of Pushmataha
 - Speech of Colonel Cobb
 - Chickasaw Indian Eloquence, Speech of Paya Mattaha
 - Creek Indian Eloquence, Speech of Yahatastanake 		 
CHAPTER IV - SPANISH EXPLORERS 106
   - Expedition of Hernando de Soto
 - Landing at Tampa
 - Fierce Battle of Mauvilla
 - Battle of Chicaca
 - Spaniards Beach and Cross the Mississippi		  
CHAPTER V - FRENCH EXPLORERS 122
   - Marquette and Joliet
 - Robert Cavalier De La Salle
 - La Salle, the Father of the Mississippi
 - La Salle and Tonti at the Mississippi
 - Tonti
 - Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville
 - His Expedition
 - Finds the Mouth of the Mississippi
 - Explores that Stream
 - Erection of Fort Maurepas and Settlement of Old Biloxi		  
CHAPTER VI - FRENCH DOMINION 165
   - Bienville's Discoveries and Explorations
 - "The English Turn"
 - Iberville's Expedition of 1700 to the Mississippi
 - Colonial Capital Transferred from Biloxi to Mobile
 - Death of Iberville
 - Bienville's Troublous Decade, 1702-1712
 - The Mississippi Country Under Crozat's Grant
 - Fort Rosalie and the Natchez Settlement
 - Natchez District and Fort Rosalie
 - The Colony Under the Western (Mississippi) Company
 - Bienville, as Governor General, Founds New Orleans
 - Concessions Located and Settled
 - The Capture of Pensacola
 - Re-Establishment of old Biloxi
 - The Casket Girls
 - The Colonial Capital Established at New Biloxi
 - Large Migration to Natchez and Yazoo Districts
 - Disagreements With Superiors
 - Collapse of the Western Company
 - Colonial Capital Established at New Orleans
 - Distressing Conditions
 - Bienville Discredited
 - Perier's Administration and the Natchez Massacre
 - Extermination of the Natchez
 - Again a Royal Province
 - Mississippi Both French and English
 - Bienville is Again Made Governor of the Province and the Chickasaw Wars Follow
 - Retirement of Bienville
 - Vaudreuil Succeeds Bienville
 - Choctaw Nation Divided into Factions
 - Province of Louisiana Under Kerlerec
 - Romance of the French Period		  
CHAPTER VII - BRITISH DOMINION 253
   - Military and Civil Government of Major Robert Farmar
 - The Johnstone Administration, 1764-66
 - Fort Rosalie Becomes Fort Panmure
 - British Occupy Fort Chartres
 - Indian Treaty of 1765
 - Predecessors of Peter Chester
 - Peter Chester, Governor
 - Large British Immigration
 - Establishment of Protestantism
 - Royalists and Patriots
 - Anthony Hutchins
 - Natchez, Anglo-Saxon Nucleus of the Mississippi Valley
 - Revolutionary War Reaches Natchez
 - One of the American Boats Attacked by Royalists
 - West Florida Possessed by Spain
 - English Land Grants in Mississippi		  
CHAPTER VIII - SPANISH DOMINION 285
   - The British Revolt of 1781
 - Administration of Don Bernardo De Galvez
 - Conflicting Territorial Claims
 - Introduction of Estevan Miro
 - Other Commandants of the Natchez District
 - Spanish Land Grants
 - The Natchez District in 1785
 - Administrative Changes
 - Relations With the British
 - Natchez District Claimed as Georgia County
 - Andrew Jackson in the Natchez District
 - Administration of Estevan Miro
 - Western Demands for a Free Mississippi
 - Colonel Wilkinson Suggests Spanish-Western Alliance
 - Kentucky Crowds Out Natchez Tobacco
 - Natchez in 1790
 - Fort Nogales
 - Administration of Carondelet
 - Spanish-Western Conspiracy fails
 - American Boundary Commissioner Arrives
 - Ellicott's First Astronomical Observations
 - Commencement of Spanish Delays
 - Spanish Posts Strengthened
 - Ellicott's Escort Strengthened
 - Other Spanish Excuses for Delay
 - Spaniards Retreat to Fort Panmure
 - Committee of Public Safety Organized
 - Permanent Committee Formed
 - Gayoso Commissioned Governor General
 - The End of Spanish Rule
 - Southern Boundary at Length Surveyed
 - A Personal Link Between Spain and America
 - Spanish Census of the Natchez District, 1792
 - Provincial Government		  
CHAPTER IX - SARGENT ADMINISTRATION, 1798 - 1801 337
   - Mississippi Territory Created
 - Organization of Government
 - Administration of Winthrop Sargent
 - The Governor's Address
 - Regulation of the Militia
 - Temporary Government Organized
 - Relations With Spanish Louisiana
 - Early Laws of the Mississippi Territory
 - Adams and Pickering counties created
 - The Port of Natchez
 - Sargents Enemies become Active
 - First Territorial Election
 - The Government Left With Secretary Steele		  
CHAPTER X - ADMINISTRATION OF W. C. C. CLAIBORNE 376
   - Governor Claiborne Arrives at Natchez
 - First General Assembly, Second Session
 - County Organization
 - Breaking up of the Mason-Harp Robber Band
 - Territorial Capital Moved to Washington
 - Jefferson College Founded
 - Fort Dearborn and Defence
 - Death of First Territorial Delegate
 - Sifting Mississippi Land Claims
 - Madison Defines Scope of Inquiry
 - The Second General Assembly Convenes
 - Territorial Land Offices Opened
 - Election of Territorial Delegate
 - Municipal Incorporation of Natchez
 - Second Session
 - Second General Assembly
 - Taking Over an Empire
 - Administration of Cato West
 - Extension of the Territory		  
CHAPTER XI - WILLIAMS AND MEAD ADMINISTRATIONS - 1805 - 1809 404
   - Cession of Great South Mississippi Tract
 - Vital Disturbances of 1805-7
 - The Kemper Affair
 - Governor Williams Leaves For North Carolina
 - Mead's Administration
 - Aaron Burr in Mississippi
 - The Arrest of Burr
 - Toulmin's Digest of Laws
 - Land Offices Closed
 - Change in the Suffrage Laws
 - Dissolving the Legislatures
 - Natchez in 1808		  
CHAPTER XII - DAVID HOLMES, LAST TERRITORIAL GOVERNOR (1809 - 1817) 442
   - Governor David Holmes
 - The Governor's Removal to Mississippi
 - The Sixth General Assembly
 - First Territorial Bank
 - Wilkinson's Military Administration Under Examination
 - Revolution in the Gulf Coast Country
 - Mississippi in the War of 1812
 - Opening of the Creek War
 - The Massacre at Fort Mims
 - Mississippi Cavalry Sent to the Front
 - Jackson Marches Down from Tennessee
 - Claiborne's Service Concluded
 - Jackson's Advance to Pensacola
 - British Occupy Mississippi Sound
 - Defense of New Orleans
 - Last Territorial Assemblies
 - Approaching Statehood
 - List of Territorial Officials		  
CHAPTER XIII - MISSISSIPPI ASSUMES STATEHOOD 482
   - Act Authorizing A State Government
 - The Constitutional Convention of 1817
 - The Constitution of 1817
 - Final Steps in the Creation of the State
 - First Session of the State Legislature
 - Judicial Appointments and Elections
 - Reassembling of the General Assembly
 - The Elizabeth Female Academy
 - Mississippi's Aid to Texas
 - Conclusion of Governor Holmes' State Administration		  
CHAPTER XIV - LEADING FIGURES IN THE STATE'S EARLY HISTORY 507
   - Commencement of Poindexter's Administration
 - The New Purchase
 - The First Session of the General Assembly of 1821
 - Death and Burial of Pushmataha
 - Locating the New State Capital
 - Hinds and Monroe Counties created
 - General Elections Fund and Chancery Court
 - Creation of Orphans' Court and Superior Court of Chancery
 - The Poindexter Code
 - Special Session of June, 1822
 - Jackson the Capital of the State
 - The Election of 1823
 - Improvements of Waterways and Roadways
 - Lafayette's Visit to the State
 - The Death of Governor Leake
 - Mount Salus, Home of Governor Leake		  
CHAPTER XV - EXPANSION AND INFLATION 542
   - Brandon and his First Administration
 - Holmes' Last Administration
 - Mississippi's Position on Slavery
 - Brandon Called to the Governorship Again
 - Second term as Acting Governor
 - Finances and Taxes
 - Governor By Election
 - Andrew Jackson Visits Capital
 - Important Legislation of 1829
 - Board of Internal Improvement Created
 - Forcing the Indians Westward
 - Revival of Education
 - Financial Matters of 1830
 - The Need of a New Constitution
 - The Fall Election of 1831
 - Building Railroads
 - Close of Governor Brandon's Career		  
CHAPTER XVI - THE STATE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF 1832 565
   - The constitutional Convention of 1832
 - Regulation of Slaves as Property
 - The Elections of 1832 and 1833
 - Conclusion of Governor Scott's Administration
 - Last Indian Lands Ceded to State
 - Governor Scott's Death From Cholera
 - Changes of Administration
 - First Year of the Runnels Administration
 - Contest Over the United States Senatorships
 - Former Choctaw Chief, Carroll County Representative
 - Poindexter's Decline
 - Walker's Ascent
 - John A. Quitman Acting Governor
 - Lynch's Administration
 - Mississippians in the Texas Revolution
 - Extra Legislative Session of January, 1837
 - The Crash of 1837
 - The Elections of 1837-38
 - The Choctaws and Chickasaws in 1837		  
CHAPTER XVII - CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH 599
   - Governor McNutt's First Administration
 - Temporary Relief Through the Union Bank
 - Proposed Financial Alliance With England
 - State Library and State Teachers' Association
 - Public Buildings Near Completion
 - Rights of Married Women
 - New United States Senators and Congressmen
 - Finances in 1838-39
 - State and Presidential Elections
 - The Governor's Attack on the Union Bank
 - Lining Up the Banks
 - Railroad Works Protected
 - Other Events of 1840
 - Repudiation of Union Bank Bonds
 - Governor Tucker and His Administration
 - First Occupant of Governor's Mansion
 - The Killing of Hagan
 - Retirement of Governor Tucker
 - Election of Governor Brown
 - The First Brown Administration
 - Planters' Bank in Liquidation
 - Statute of Limitations Passed
 - University of Mississippi Located
 - Presidential Campaign of 1844
 - Prentiss, Clay's Champion in Mississippi
 - Governor Brown's Reelection
 - Proposed System of Public Schools
 - State Divided Into Congressional Districts
 - The Mexican War and Mississippi Politics		  
CHAPTER XVIII - MISSISSIPPI IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO 651
   - Foreign Complications Threatened
 - Texas Adopts Congressional Resolutions
 - Mexican and American Armies Advance
 - Mexicans Open Hostilities
 - First Mississippi Troops at the Front
 - First Mississippi Infantry (Mississippi Rifles) Organize
 - John A. Quitman to the Front
 - The Battle of Monterey
 - Buena Vista Won by the Mississippi Rifles
 - Return of Colonel Davis and the Mississippi Rifles
 - Second Mississippi Regiment and Reuben Davis
 - Battalion of Riflemen, 1847-48
 - General Quitman's Distinguished Military Career
 - Major Earl Van Dorn
 - A School of Practical Warfare		  
CHAPTER XIX - SECTIONAL ISSUES IN MISSISSIPPI 694
   - Joseph W. Matthews Elected Governor
 - Matthews on State's Rights
 - Manipulation of State Finances
 - Educational and Charitable Measures
 - The Cholera of 1849
 - Promotion of Charities
 - Democrats and Whigs Unite in Convention (1849)
 - Meetings of the State Nominating Conventions
 - The Convention of October, 1849
 - Democrats Carry the General Election of 1849
 - Overshadowing National Issues
 - The Clay Compromise in Congress
 - The Nashville Convention
 - Congressional Adoption of the Compromise
 - Fighting the Compromise in Mississippi
 - John I. Guion, Governor Ad Interim
 - James Whitfield, Another Governor Ad Interim
 - Foote Elected Governor
 - Final State Position Further Defined
 - The Foote-Pettus Administration
 - Democrats Back in Power 		 
CHAPTER XX - MISSISSIPPI RESISTS COERCION 748
   - Incoming of the McRae Administration
 - Establishment of State Charities
 - McRae's Second Term
 - Amendments to State Constitution Adopted
 - Consolidation of Levee Improvements
 - The Rise of Lucius Q. C. Lamar
 - Sectional Issues Reenter State Politics
 - Gubernatorial Election of 1857
 - L. Q. C. Lamar Elected to Congress
 - Retirement of Governor McRae
 - Commencement of the McWillie Administration
 - Death of John A. Quitman
 - Special Session of 1858
 - John J. Pettus Elected Governor
 - John Brown's Raid Intensifies National Issues
 - First Term of Governor Pettus
 - Marshalling of the Political Forces in 1860
 - The Legislature Calls a Secession Convention
 - Mississippi Passes Ordinance of Secession
 - Effect and Progress of Secession Movement
 - Withdrawal of the Congressional Delegation
 - Text of the Ordinance of Secession
 - Conforming to the New Conditions
 - Mississippi Formally Enters the Confederacy
 - War Approaching Home Soil
 - The War in Mississippi
 - Conclusion of the Pettus Administration
 - Effects of Emancipation		  
CHAPTER XXI - LAST CONFEDERATE ADMINISTRATION 811
   - Gen. Charles Clark Elected Governor
 - Capital Moved to Columbus
 - Inauguration of Governor Clark
 - Mixed Civil and Military Governments
 - Federal Occupation in 1863
 - Attempted Union Control of Cotton
 - Union Camps of Freemen
 - Capital of Mississippi Moved to Macon
 - Last Struggles of the War in Mississippi
 - Task Assigned to General Forrest
 - Mississippi Accepts Results of the War
 - Confederate Congressmen		  
CHAPTER XXII - MISSISSIPPI IN THE WAR FOR SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE 839
   - Mississippi's First Military Movements
 - Organization and Distribution of Mississippi Troops
 - Closing in on Vicksburg
 - The Arkansas and her Fate
 - Land Operations in Spring and Summer of 1862
 - Position of Troops in North Mississippi
 - The Battle of Iuka
 - Battle of Corinth
 - Second Attempt on Vicksburg Planned
 - The Holly Springs Raid
 - Vicksburg Again Defended
 - Cutting Around Vicksburg
 - Grierson's Troopers Lay Waste
 - The State
 - Federals Occupy Jackson
 - The Battle of Champion Hill
 - Final Siege of Vicksburg
 - Jackson Again Occupied By Sherman
 - Last of the War in Mississippi
 - Battle Fields of Mississippi		  

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

Author, Portrait of - Frontispiece  
Mississippi River at Natchez 25
View of the Tombigbee River at Columbus 25
Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound of the Choctaws, as it Appeared in 1914.  Taken from the West End 49
Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound of the Choctaws, as it Appeared in 1914.  View from East End 49
Display of Indian Arrow-Heads and Spear Points from Yazoo County 59
From a Collection of Indian Arrow-Heads, Spear Points and Bird Points in the State Museum 59
Selected from a Collection of Indian Pipes Preserved in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History 69
Frontispiece and Title Page of "Atala," By M. de Chateaubriand 79
Hernando De Soto 107
Spanish Halbert, Reputed to Be a Relic of the De Soto Expedition Through, Mississippi in 1540 107
Scenes Along the Route of De Soto in Tunicia County:   
     Coldwater River, near the Ford Where De Soto Crossed 111
     View of the Border of the Lowlands 111
     Buck Island Bayou, near the Indian Trail Traveled By De Soto 111
     Bluffs Bordering the bottom 111
Scenes Along the Route of DeSoto in Tunica county:  
     View of the Mississippi River Near the Point of discovery 115
     View of De Soto Mound, Looking from the West 115
     View of Morass East of the Mounds at Which Were Located the Indian Villages 115
Lewis XVI, King of France, from a Portrait 123
Robert Cavalier De La Salle, from a Portrait 127
La Salle Taking Possession of Louisiana in the Name of King Louis XIV, April 9, 1682.  From a painting by T. de Thulstrup 131
Governor General Pierre Le Moyne D'Iberville 137
First Settlement on Mississippi Soil, Landing of the French Under d'Iberville, April 8, 1699, at Old Biloxi or Fort Maurepas 141
First Colony Biloxi, Fort Maurepas 147
Back Bay of Biloxi 147
Flag of France, in colors 165
Portion of De Lisle's Carte De Louisiana, 1718 167
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur De Bienville II, from a portrait 177
Site of Fort Rosalie, Natchez 195
John Law of Lauriston, Founder of the Western Company, from a Portrait 201
An Ancient House of Biloxi, Reputed to Have Been Built Early in the 18th Century 207
Old Cannon Taken from a Vessel Sunk in the Back Bay of Biloxi 207
Old French Fort, Near Pascaoula 213
Flag of England, in colors 253
Portion of Map Made By Lieutenant Ross in 1765 257
Town and Fort of Natchez (1787) 257
Great Seal of the British Province of West Flora 267
Flag of Spain, in colors 285
"Concord," the Home of the Spanish Governors 299
Key of "Concord" 299
A Marble Square from the Floor of "Concord" 299
Facsimile of a Memorial to the King of Spain, Dated 1797 317
Flag of the United States, in colors 337
Winthrop Sargent, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 345
First Page of Territorial Governor Winthrop Sargent's Letter Book 351
Proclamation of Governor Winthrop Sergeant, 1800 357
Form of Military Commission Issued By the Mississippi Territory in 1801 357
Title Page of "Petition of Cato West and Others" Against the Administration of Governor Winthrop Sargent 367
Title Page of Pamphlet Issued by Gov. Winthrop Sargent in Defense of His Administration as Governor of the Mississippi Territory 367
Two Great Men Lie Side by Side.  tombs of Winthrop Sargent and Seargeant S. Prentiss 371
"Windy Hill Manor," Natchez, Where Aaron Burr Awaited Trial for Treason in 1807 371
William C. C. Claiborne, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 377
Jefferson College, Washington 387
Gov. Robert Williams, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 405
Facsimile of the Order for the Arrest of Aaron Burr 417
Facsimile of the Order Directing That Aaron Burr Be Sent to Washington, D. C. 417
Facsimile of a Letter Relative to the Aaron Burr Expedition to the Mississippi Territory 423
Facsimile of the Mississippi Messenger, February 11, 1806 429
Title Page of the "Magistrates' Assistant," Compiled by Judge Harry Toulmin 435
Gov. David Holmes, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi all of Fame 443
Document from Silas Dinsmore 449
Map of Washington, the Territorial Capital of Mississippi, with accompanying Document from Silas Dinsmore 449
Facsimile Signatures of Governors of Mississippi Territory 480
Facsimile of the First Page of the Journal of the Mississippi Constitutional Convention of 1817 487
Facsimile of the First Page of First Constitution of Mississippi (1817) 491
Facsimile of the Last Pages of the Mississippi Constitution of 1817, with signatures of the Members of the Constitutional Convention 495
Sugar Bowl, Tray and Candle Snuffers of Gov. George Poindexter 503
Governor George Poindexter, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 509
Map Showing the Land Donated By the United States to the State of Mississippi for a Seat of Government 513
Facsimile of Original Manuscript Map of the City of Jackson as Made By the Commission Charged With the Duty of Locating a Capital for the State of Mississippi 517
First Building in Jackson and First State Capitol, Northeast Corner of Capitol and President Streets 523
Walking Cane Presented in 1825 by the Marquis De Lafayette to Gov. Walter Leake of Mississippi 541
Governor Gerard Chittocque Brandon, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 543
A Mississippi Bowie Knife and Sheath 559
Currency of the Mississippi and Alabama Railroad Company 559
Facsimile of the First Page of the Mississippi Constitution of 1832 567
Dr. John W. Monette, Mississippi Historian 575
Governor Hiram G. Runnels, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 581
"Monmouth," Natchez, the Home of Gov. John A. Quitman 598
Hon. Jacob Thompson 608
The Original Governor's Mansion, Jackson (1842) 627
Seargeant Smith Prentiss, from an Oil Painting in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 641
Governor Albert Gallatin Brown, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 653
Governor John Anthony Quitman, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 663
Jefferson Davis, at the Age of Thirty-two Years 669
Facsimile of Letter from Colonel Jefferson Davis to Governor A. G. Brown 673
"The Briars," Natchez, Where Jefferson Davis Was Married in 1845 679
"Stanton Hall," Natchez 679
Knapsack Worn by Senator James Z. George as a Soldier in the War With Mexico 685
Bullet Pouch Worn by Charles H. Gibbs at the Battle of Buena Vista 685
Sword Presented by Col. Jefferson Davis to John Holt, a Private in the First Mississippi Volunteers, War With Mexico, for Gallantry in Action 685
The Famous "Mississippi Rifle" With Which the First Mississippi Volunteers in the War With Mexico Under the Command of Col. Jefferson Davis Were Armed 685
Saddle Blanket and Bags of General Valencia, a Mexican General, Captured by a Young American Officer During the War With Mexico, and Presented to Gen. John A. Quitman 685
Senator Robert J. Walker 689
Governor Joseph W. Matthews, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 695
Central Rotunda Under the Dome, New Capitol 703
Ante Bellum Home, Columbus 725
Home of Gov. John I. Guion, at the Northwest Corner of Capitol and West Streets, Jackson 725
Governor John Isaac Guion, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 731
Governor James Whitfield, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 735
Governor Henry Stuart Foote, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 739
Governor John J. McRae, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 743
A Type of the Young Mississippi Woman of 1850.  From "Dem Good Ole Times," by Mrs. James H. Dooley, illustrated by Suzanne Gutherz 751
Senator L. Q. C. Lamar, at Thirty-Seven Years of Age 755
"Kirkwood," Madison County.  The Ante-Bellum Home of Governor William McWillie 761
Governor William McWillie, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 765
Governor John J. Pettus, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 769
A Type of the Mississippi Woman, 1820-1860.  From "Dem Good Ole Times," by Mrs. James H. Dooley, Illustrated by Suzanne Gutherz 775
Magnolia State Fllat, in colors 776
Facsimile of "An Ordinance to Dissolve the Union Between the State of Mississippi and the Other States United With Her Under the Compact Entitled The Constitution of the United States" 779
"Bonnie Blue" Flag, in colors 784
Colonel William S. Barry 787
Flag of the Confederacy, in colors 790
An Officer of the Confederate States Army 793
An Infantryman of the Confederate States Army 793
A Cavalryman of the Confederate States Army 793
Battle Flag of Eighteenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 797
Battle Flag of the Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 797
Currency of the State of Mississippi Issued During the Confederate Period.  The Portrait is that of Governor J. J. Pettus 801
Bracelet, Watch Charm, and Ring Made By a Mississippi Confederate Officer While a Prisoner at Fort Delaware 807
Flag of the Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 807
Governor Charles Clark, from an Oil Portrait in the Mississippi Hall of Fame 813
Capitols in 1863-64.  1, Courthouse, Columbus; 2, Calhoun Institute, Macon; 3, Church, Columbus 821
Confederate States Bond, of August 20, 1862 827
Mississippi Bond of February 20, 1865 833
Jefferson Davis and His Generals 841
Brig.-Gen. W. L. Brandon 849
Brig.-Gen. Douglas H. Cooper 849
Brig.-Gen. B. G. Humphreys 849
Brig.-Gen. William Barksdale 849
Brig.-Gen. M. P. Lowrey 849
Brig.-Gen. W. S. Featherston 849
Brig.-Gen. Samuel Benton 849
Brig.-Gen. Wirt Adams 849
Brig.-Gen. J. R. Davis 849
Dress Sword of Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, of the Nineteenth Regiment of Mississippi Infantry, C. S. A. 859
Pistol and Holster Worn by Col. Robert A. Smith When Mortally Wounded at the Battle of Munfordsville 859
Lee's Headquarters at the Junction of Plank Road and Welford's Furnace Road, Chancellorsville, Virginia 859
Battle Flag of Fourth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 869
Flag of Duncan Rifles, Third Battalion of Mississippi Infantry, C. S. A. 869

VOLUME II - VOLUME I

CONTENTS

   
CHAPTER XXIII - ARMIES OF TENNESSEE AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA 11
   - Mississippi in the Army of Tennessee
 - The Battle of Shiloh-Chalmers' Brigade
 - Mississippi Horsemen and Gunners
 - Breckinridges Reserve Corps
 - Death of Albert Sidney Johnston
 - Caring for the Wounded in Battle
 - General Call to the Confederate Colors
 - The Battle of Murfreesboro
 - General Chalmers Badly Wounded
 - Chickamauga
 - Siege and Battle of Chattanooga
 - Georgia Campaign of 1864
 - Final Actions of Army of Tennessee
 - Battle of First Manassas
 - "Enlisted for the War"
 - The Sixteenth with Stonewall Jackson
 - The Peninsula Campaign
 - Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg
 - General Lee Invades the North
 - Mississippi at Gettysburg
 - Barksdale's Brigade
 - Picketts Charge
 - Humphreys' Brigade with Army of Tennessee
 - Closing Actions of the War
 - Devotion of Mississippi Women		  
CHAPTER XXIV - MISSISSIPPI OFFICERS, ORGANIZATIONS AND MEN 68
   - List of General Officers
 - List of Regiments and Battalions
 - Roster of Mississippi Soldiers, Army of Northern Virginia, Paroled at Appomattox		  
CHAPTER XXV - CONDITIONS IN MISSISSIPPI AFTER THE WAR 105
   - Mississippi's Fight for Home Rule
 - Judge Sharkey Appointed Provisional Governor
 - Sharkey's Administration
 - Secession Ordinance Declared Null and Void
 - Ante-Election Issues in Mississippi
 - Election of General Humphreys
 - Legislature of October 16 - December 6, 1865
 - A Dual-Headed Government
 - Two United States Senators Elected
 - The Black Code of 1865
 - The Thirteenth Amendment Rejected
 - Bitter Fight Between Republican Politicians
 - Parting of the Ways
 - Action By Congress on Presidential Vetoes
 - Home Affairs Preceding Legislative Session, 1866 - 67
 - Martial Law Not Lifted
 - Fourteenth Amendment Passes Congress
 - The Legislature of October 15, '66-February 21, '67
 - Request for the Release of Jefferson Davis from Imprisonment
 - Passage of the Reconstruction Acts
 - Effects of Reconstruction Acts in Mississippi
 - Majority of Negro Registrants
 - Negro Vote Handled Through Loyal League
 - Upon the Eve of the Convention
 - Political Divisions
 - Constitutional Convention of 1868
 - First Rejection of the Constitution
 - Governor Humphreys Forced from Office by the Military Arm
 - Governor Humphreys' Family Ejected From the Mansion
 - The Ames Provisional Administration
 - Resubmission of the Constitution
 - Admission of Mississippi's United Stats Senators		  
CHAPTER XXVI - RECONSTRUCTION CONTINUED 159
   - Governor Alcorn Accepts The Situation
 - Plans Too Large For Treasury
 - First Financial Year of the "New Order"
 - The Legislature of 1871
 - Governor Alcorn Abandons the Field
 - Racial Disorders of 1871
 - The Meridian Riot of March 6, 1871
 - The Enforcement Act
 - The Close of the Year 1871
 - The Inauguration of the Powers Administration
 - Republican Rule Continued
 - The General Elections of 1872
 - Secretaryship of State Monopolized by Negroes
 - The Ames-Alcorn Contest for Governor
 - State Finances Under Negro Rule
 - First Year of the Ames Administration
 - Rebellion Against Misrule
 - The The Vicksburg Riots of December, 1874
 - Special Session of the Legislature
 - The Taxpayers' Convention of 1875
 - Response of Governor and Legislature
 - The State Democracy Again in Action
 - Political and Race Disorders
 - The Election of November, 1875
 - The Fall of Radical Republicanism
 - Proceedings Making John M. Stone Governor.		  
CHAPTER XXVII - DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL 206
   - First Steps in True Reconstruction
 - The Finances of 1876
 - Elections of 1876
 - Mississippi at the Centennial Exposition
 - The Legislature of 1877
 - State Board of Health Organized
 - The Democrats Unimpeded
 - Legislative Session of 1878
 - Last Scourge of Yellow Fever
 - Elections of 1879 and 1880
 - The Levee System
 - Last of Governor Stone's Administration
 - Governor Lowry Inaugurated
 - Finances of 1882
 - Industrial Growth
 - The Session of 1884
 - Abuses of the Convict System
 - Railroad Commission Created
 - Last Visit of Jefferson Davis to the State's Capital
 - Events of 1884 and 1885
 - Mississippi at the New Orleans Exposition
 - Temperance and Education Prominent
 - Close of Lowry's Second Administration
 - In Gratitude to the Maimed and Dead
 - Better Treatment for Convicts
 - Death of Jefferson Davis
 - Good Outlook for 1890		  
CHAPTER XXVIII - JOHN M. STONE'S LAST TERM AS GOVERNOR  
   - Last Term of John M. Stone
 - Millsaps College Founded
 - Mississippi Historical Society Incorporated
 - The Constitutional Convention of 1890
 - Two Leaders, Not Democrats
 - The Reasons for the Convention
 - The Great Problem Before the Convention
 - The Constitution Adopted as a Whole
 - Ordinances Adopted by the Convention
 - Code of 1892
 - Death of Lamar
 - State Issue of Fiat Money
 - Suggested Reforms in the Laws
 - Adoption of State Flag and Coat-of-Arms
 - Honors for Anselm J. McLaurin
 - State Finances Not Encouraging
 - McLaurin Assumes Governorship
 - The Passing of Senators George and Walthall
 - War With Spain, 1898
 - Railroad Exemption From Taxes Repealed
 - Recommends Popular Election of United States Senators
 - The Election of 1899
 - Financial Outlook Brighter
 - Literary Activates in Mississippi		  
CHAPTER XXIX - A NEW GENERATION 279
   - Inauguration of the Longino Administration
 - The New Capitol
 - Election for Congressmen and Constitutional Amendments
 - Creation of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
 - State Insurance Department Created
 - Adopted of the Magnolia as State Flower
 - Extension of Convict Farm System
 - Beginning of the Oyster Dispute
 - Good Roads Movement
 - Governor Longino Encouraged
 - Passage of Primary Election Law
 - Constitutionality of the Law Vindicated
 - The Primary Elections of 1903
 - Epitome of the Longino Administration
 - Gov. James K. Vardaman Inaugurated in the New Capitol
 - Legislation of 1904
 - Creation of Text Book Commission
 - The Beauvoir Confederate Home
 - Yellow Fever Exterminated in Mississippi
 - The Penitentiary Farms
 - Boundary Decision Against Mississippi
 - Laws Passed in 1906
 - Penitentiary System Reformed
 - Vardaman Defeated for United States Senator by Williams
 - Edmond F. Noel Chose for Governor
 - Social Conditions in Mississippi		  
CHAPTER XXX - EIGHT CONSTRUCTIVE YEARS 315
   - The Noel Administration
 - Encouragement of Agriculture and Live Stock
 - Death of Gen. Stephen D. Lee
 - Death of Bishop Charles B. Galloway
 - Leroy Percy Succeeds United States Senator McLaurin
 - Establishment of Agricultural High Schools in the State
 - Other Encouragements for Rural Development
 - A State Pure Food Law Enacted
 - Trustees of the State Charity Hospital
 - Earl Leroy Brewer Elected Governor
 - The 1912 Legislature
 - Preserving the Old State Capitol
 - Guaranteeing Bank Deposits
 - Administrative and Executive Development
 - Elections of 1914
 - Elections of 1915		  
CHAPTER XXXI - A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD 345
   - Inauguration of T. G. Bilbo
 - Educational Reforms By the Legislature
 - New State Charities
 - Final Action on Preservation of the Old Capitol
 - State Tax Commission Created
 - Special Session of 1917
 - Legislation of 1918
 - Departmental Matters
 - Election of Byron Patton Harrison to the U. S. Senate
 - Lee M. Russell Elected Governor
 - Constitutional Amendment Regarding School Funds
 - The People of Mississippi in 1920
 - Facts Taken From the Fourteenth Census
 - Urban and Rural Population
 - Population of Corporations Above 2,500 People
 - Population of Mississippi, 1800-1920
 - Analysis of the State's Population		  
CHAPTER XXXII - MISSISSIPPI IN THE WORLD WAR 363
   - Mississippi Troops on the Mexican Border
 - The Regiment Held for War
 - Becomes the 155th Infantry
 - Overseas Duties Absorb Regiment
 - Effacement of State Lines
 - Letters from the Front
 - "Heroes All"
 - Mississippi's Home Service During the War
 - General Officers from Mississippi
 - Mississippi Centennial Poem
 - 1817 - 1917		  
CHAPTER XXXIII - STATE AFFAIRS, 1920 - 1924 394
   - Lee M. Russell Inaugurated Governor
 - Primaries and General Election, 1920
 - Two Constitutional Amendments Adopted
 - John Sharp Williams Retires From the U. S. Senate
 - United States Senator Hubert D. Stephens
 - The Campaign of 1923
 - Legislation of 1920-24
 - Governor Whitfield's Inaugural
 - Financial, Industrial, and Economic Reforms
 - Mississippi Governors in Succession		  
CHAPTER XXXIV - MISSISSIPPI IN CONGRESS 420
   - Mississippi's First Senators, Walter Leake and Thomas H. Williams, December 11, 1817
 - Senatorial Contest of 1829
 - George Poindexter and Robert J. Walker
 - Senators 1829-1847
 - Jefferson Davis, the Hero of Buena Vista, Senator From Mississippi
 - Senators 1850-1861
 - Resignation of Senators Davis and Brown
 - The Confederate Reconstruction Periods
 - L. Q. C. Lamar, Edward Cary Walthall, James Z. George
 - Senators 1880-1925
 - John Sharp Williams
 - Pat Harrison
 - Mississippi Congressmen
 - George Poindexter, First Congressman, December 11, 1817
 - Prentiss and Word
 - Claiborne and Gholson
 - Congressmen 1817-1925		  
CHAPTER XXXV - THE JUDICIARY OF MISSISSIPPI 440
   - The Pioneer Territorial Judges
 - First Judicial Systems
 - Judicial System Taking Shape
 - Changes in System up to the Time of Statehood
 - Territorial Judges of Mississippi, 1798-1817
 - First Judiciary of the State
 - The First State Supreme Court
 - Supreme Judges of the State of Mississippi, 1818-1832
 - High Court of Errors and Appeals, 1833-1870
 - Supreme Court, 1870-1925
 - Judges of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, 1870-1925
 - Circuit Judges, 1833-1925
 - Chancellors, 1870-1925
 - The Superior Court of Chancery, 1821-1857
 - Personnel of the Superior Court of Chancery		  
CHAPTER XXXVI - EDUCATION IN MISSISSIPPI 469
   - Before and In Territorial Times
 - Pioneer Academies of the State Period
 - Mississippi's Educational System
 - Public Education Up to 1845
 - Founding of the State University
 - The First Common School "System"
 - Schools for Defectives
 - Educational Interregnum Caused By War
 - The Reconstruction Period
 - The State University Before and During the War
 - The University Since the War
 - Mississippi State College for Women
 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College
 - The Alcorn A. & M. College
 - The System Under the Constitution of 1890
 - Schools For Defectives Recently Established
 - State Educational Institutions
 - The Denominational Colleges
 - Junior colleges and Academies
 - Colleges and Institutes for Negroes
 - Present Public School Conditions
 - High Schools and Education of Negroes		  
CHAPTER XXXVII - INDUSTRIAL MISSISSIPPI 508
   - Comparative Importance of the Industries
 - Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century
 - Tobacco, Mississippi's First Commercial Staple
 - Raising of Indigo Plant for Dye Stuffs
 - Cotton Becomes King
 - Whitney's Gin Introduced
 - The Basis of Mississippi Cotton
 - The Cultivation of Corn
 - Inauguration of Scientific Farming
 - Agricultural Progress Since the War For Southern Independence
 - The Decade 1900-1910
 - Statistical Survey, 1850=1920
 - Explanation of Census Terms
 - Acreage, Production and Value of the Leading Crops
 - The Farmers, White and Negro
 - Artificial Drainage
 - Drainage Enterprises
 - Drainage on Farms
 - The Operating System of Artificial Drainage
 - Drainage Legislation
 - Live Stock in Mississippi
 - Live Stock Products and Sales
 - Industrial Mississippi,  1799-1900
 - Industrial Progress for Twenty Years
 		  
CHAPTER XXXVIII - TRANSPORTATION IN MISSISSIPPI 549
   - Mississippi River Travel
 - Steaming Up the Mississippi
 - First Western Passenger Steamer
 - Railroad Pioneering in Mississippi
 - Longest Chartered Railroad in the United States
 - Great Railroad Development Since the '80s
 - The Illinois Central System
 - Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company the Southern Railway System
 - The Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
 - Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad
 - Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
 - The Alabama and Vicksburg Railway Company
 - Gulf and Ship Island and Railroad Company
 - The Mississippi Central Railroad
 - The Louisville and Nashville System in Mississippi
 - The New Orleans Great Northern
 - Minor Lines
 - The Highways of the State
 - Why The Department was Created
 - The Available Funds
 - Mississippi's Highway System		  
CHAPTER XXXIX - BANKS, BANKING AND STATE FINANCES 571
   - State Regulation of Banks
 - Present Banking and Existing Banks
 - Mississippi Banks by Towns and Cities
 - Status of the Leading Banks
 - The Debt of the State From 1865 to 1900
 - Bonded Indebtedness Covering the Past Twenty Years		  
CHAPTER XL - MISSISSIPPI HIGHER ACTIVITIES 588
   - Early Catholic Missions
 - Early Baptist Missions
 - The Episcopal Church
 - The Methodists of Mississippi
 - Lorenzo Dow Deeds First Protestant Church Lot
 - Historic Sunday School at Natchez
 - The State Furnishes Three Bishops
 - The Presbyterians in Mississippi
 - Formation of Mississippi Presbytery
 - The Cumberland Presbyterian Church
 - The Christian Church
 - Present Status of the Churches
 - Public Charities
 - Mississippi as a Leader in Reforms
 - Modern Social Tendencies
 - Good Society Still in Mississippi 		 
CHAPTER XLI - THE MISSISSIPPI PRESS 613
   - Birth of the Mississippi Press
 - Andrw Marschalk and B. M. Stokes, Pioneers
 - The Mississippi Gazette and Other Newspapers of Natchez
 - Marschalk, Peter Isler and Richard C. Langdon, First Public Printers of Territory and State.
 - Newspapers Established Outside of Natchez and Washington, Pioneer Capitals
 - Leading Early Newspapers Classified Politically
 - Early Jackson Press
 - War Trials for Mississippi Newspapers
 - The Revival
 - Oldest Existing Newspapers
 - Four Great Editors
 - Mississippi Newspapers on File in the State Historical Department, Published 1830-1840; 1840-1850; 1850-1860
 - Present Newspapers of Mississippi 		 
CHAPTER XLII - SLAVERY IN MISSISSIPPI - THE NEGRO IN 1924 628
   - Slavery Among the French and Spanish
 - American Opposition to the Institution
 - Mississippi Territory Recognizes Problem
 - The State of Mississippi and Slavery
 - Abolition Arises as a Political  Issue 
 - Opposition to Slave Traffic Increases
 - Rising Tide of Pro-Slavery Sentiment
 - Slavery as Practiced in Mississippi
 - Attitude Toward Slavery After the War
 - Negroes of the South During the War
 - The Negro in Mississippi in 1924 		 
CHAPTER XLIII - RACIAL INFLUENCES 657
   - Early Population of the Gulf Coast Regon of Mississippi
 - The French Pioneers of Interior America
 - Upper and Lower Mississippi United
 - Providing the French With Wives
 - Importation of African Slaves
 - Termination of French Rule
 - Racial Mixtures Under English Dominion
 - Immigration Under Spanish Rule
 - American Centers and Sources of Moulding Forces
 - Mississippi Populaton 1850-1860		  
CHAPTER XLIV - THE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI - ADAM CLAIBORNE 673
   - Historical Division
 - Counties of the Old Natchez District
 - Counties of First Choctaw Cession
 - District of Mobile Counties
 - County Division of First Chickasaw Cession
 - The New Purchase Erected into Counties
 - Counties Formed From Remaining Choctaw Lands
 - Remainder of Chickasaw Lands Formed Into Counties
 - The Counties of Mississippi; Their Early History and Organization, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Water Courses and Railroads, Development in Population, Agriculture, and Manufactures:
 - Adams County
 - Alcorn County
 - Amite County
 - Attala County
 - Benton County
 - Bolivar County
 - Calhoun County
 - Carroll County
 - Chickasaw County
 - Choctaw County
 - Claiborne County		  
CHAPTER XLV - THE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI - CLARK - HARRISON 705
   - Early History and Organization, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Water Courses and Railroads, Development in Population, Agriculture and Manufactures;
 - Clarke County
 - Clay County
 - Coahoma County
 - Copiah County
 - Covington County
 - De Soto County
 - Forrest County
 - Franklin County
 - George County
 - Greene County
 - Grenada County
 - Hancock County
 - Harrison County		  
CHAPTER XLVI - THE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI - Hinds - Marion 734
   - Early History and Organizations, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Water Courses and Railroads, Development in Population, Agriculture, and Manufactures:
 - Hinds County
 - Holmes County
 - Humphreys County
 - Issaquena County
 - Itawamba County
 - Jackson County
 - Jasper County
 - Jefferson County
 - Jefferson Davis County
 - Jones County
 - Kemper County
 - Lafayette County
 - Lamar County
 - Lauderdale County
 - Lawrence County
 - Leake County
 - Lee County
 - LeFlore County
 - Lincoln County
 - Lowndes County
 - Madison County
 - Marion County		  
CHAPTER XLVII - THE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI - MARSHALL - SUNFLOWER 787
   - Early history and Organization, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Water Courses and Railroads, Development in Population, Agriculture and Manufactures:
 - Marshall County
 - Monroe County
 - Montgomery County
 - Neshoba County
 - Newton County
 - Noxubee County
 - Oktibbeha County
 - Panola County
 - Pearl River County
 - Perry County
 - Pike County
 - Pontotoc County
 - Prentiss County
 - Quitman County
 - Rankin County
 - Scott County
 - Sharkey County
 - Simpson County
 - Smith County
 - Stone County
 - Sunflower County		  
CHAPTER XLVIII - THE COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI - TALLAHATCHIE - YAZOO 89
   - Early History and Organization, Cities, Towns, and Villages, Water Courses and Railroads, Development in Population, Agriculture, and Manufactures:
 - Tallahatchie County
 - Tate County
 - Tippah County
 - Tishomingo County
 - Tunica County
 - Union County
 - Wayne County
 - Webster County
 - Wilkinson County
 - Winston County
 - Yalobusha County
 - Yazoo County		  

ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME II

Coat of Arms of Mississippi, in colors - Frontispiece  
Maj.-Gen. W. H. C. Whiting 13
Brig.-Gen. James A. Smith 13
Brig.-Gen. Carnot Posey 13
Brig.-Gen. Robert Lowry 13
Brig.-Gen. J. H. Sharp 13
Brig.-Gen. Peter B. Starke 13
Brig.-Gen. Charles Clark 13
Brig.-Gen. S. W. Ferguson 13
Maj.-Gen. E. C. Walthall 25
Brig.-Gen. W. F. Tucker 25
Brig.-Gen. W. F. Brantley 25
Brig.-Gen. W. E. Baldwin 25
Brig.-Gen. S. J. Gholson 25
Maj.-Gen. W. T. Martin 25
Knife and Fork Used on the Confederate Battleship "Alabama," Commanded by Admiral Raphael Semmes 37
Sword Worn by Gen. W. S. Featerston During the War for Southern Independence 37
Battle Flag of the Second Mississippip Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 37
The Crater, Petersburg, Virginia 49
Devil's Den, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 57
Cemetery Hill from Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 57
Maj.-Gen. Earl Van Dorn 69
Brig.-Gen. Richard Griffith 69
Maj.-Gen. S. G. French 69
Brig.-Gen. N. H. Harris 69
Brig.-Gen. J. R. Chalmers 69
Brig.-Gen. C. W. Sears 69
Battle Flag of the Tenth Mississippi Regiment of Infantry, C. S. A. 79
Governor William Lewis Sharkey 107
Governor Benjamin G. Humphreys 117
Title Page of "The Imitation of Christ" 135
Governor James Lusk Alcorn 161
Episcopal Church, Natchez 205
Gen. Stephen Dill Lee 211
Governor Robert Lowery 221
Mississippi State College for Women, Columbus 227
Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne 233
Cane of Jefferson Davis, Made from the Mount Vernon Oak 240
Governor John Marshall Stone 243
Old State Capitol, 1839-1903 249
Senator L. Q. C. Lamar 257
Senator Edward Cary Walthall 263
Senator James Z. George 267
Confederate Monument, Jackson 273
Flag of Mississippi, in colors 279
The New Capitol of Mississippi 281
Front of the Mississippi State Capitol, Showing Tympanum 287
Section of the Mississippi Hall of Fame 287
Section of the State Museum, Showing Flags and Mementoes of the War for Southern Independence, with the Mississippi Hall of Fame in the Distance 291
Jefferson Davis Beauvoir Memorial Home for Mississippi Confederate Soldiers 303
Monument Erected in Honor of the Women of the Confederacy, on the Capitol Grounds, Jackson 317
East End of Capitol 317
Display Cases Showing Collection of Indian Antiquities 323
Facsimile of Bronze Tablet Presented by Colonial Dames of Mississippi, February 22, 1911 327
Main Building, State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Jackson, 1904 333
Senate Chamber and House of Representatives, Old Capitol, Jackson (Before Restoration) 339
Detail of Dome, Old Capitol 347
Detail of the House of Representatives Chamber, Old Capitol 347
Detail of the State Library, Old Capitol 347
Stairway, Old Capitol, Leading to the Third Floor 347
Magnolia, State Flower, in colors 363
Maj.-Gen. H. P. McCain 365
Brig.-Gen. Fox Conner 365
Brig.-Gen. John W. Heard 365
East Mississippi Hospital for the Insane, Meridian, 1904 395
Senator John Sharp Williams 401
Jefferson Davis Monument at Fairview, Kentucky, His Birthplace 405
Facsimile of a Letter from Jefferson Davis to G. T. Beauregard 410, 411
The Sword, Scabbard and Belt Worn by Gen. William Barksdale When He Was Killed at Gettysburg 417
Sudley Springs, Bull Run, Virginia, Where Mississippi Troops Were Engaged 417
Main Entrance to Capitol 421
Senator Hernando DeSoto Money 429
Dr. Richard Watson Jones 471
Gen. Stephen Dill Lee 471
Dr. Robert Burwell Fulton 471
Hon. James Rhea Preston 471
State Institution for the Blind, Jackson, 1902 477
Pioneer Buildling of the University of Mississippi, Oxford (1848) 483
Music Hall - Mississippi State College for Women 489
The Cotton Plant, in colors 508
Naval Reserve Park, Biloxi 513
A Productive Tomato Field, Crystal Springs 519
Harvesting Corn 519
Great Forage Plant of Mississippi.  Lespedeza, or Japanese Clover 527
Mississippi Pecan Grove 535
Alfalfa Field in Noxubee County, Northeast Mississippi 535
Mississippi Long-Leaf Pines 543
Mississippi Forest of Long-Leaf Pine 543
Beauvoir, Last Home of Jeffeson Davis 551
Benachie Avenue, Biloxi, with the Gulf of Mexico in the Distance 565
Stock Certificate of First Bank Established in Mississippi At Natchez in 1809 573
The Heart of Jackson, Showing the Governor's Mansion in  the Foreground, Smith Park in the Center, and the State Capitol in the Background 591
Alcorn A. & M. College for Negroes - Chapel Buildilng 653
Map of Mississippi Territory, 1809 675
"Arlington," Natchex 681
"Malmaison," Carroll County, Home of Greenwood Leflore, Built 1854 681
The Classic City Hall of Jackson 735
Lauren Rogers Libary, Laurel 755
Street Scene, Laurel 755
City Hall, Meridian 763
Map of Mississippi, 1832 775
Ante-Bellum Home, Holly Springs 789
Biloxi Lighthouse, Built in 1848 789
Map of Mississippi, 1842 801
Map of Mississippi, 1872 831


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