Embracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, this newly republished double volume collection provides a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals of Mississippi. Part 2, containing chapters sixteen through twenty-four, is a much more personal study of the people of Mississippi. This section presents sketches of individual life and gives special attention to notable families and conspicuous and prominent residents of the state.
I have owned the two original Volumes of "Memoirs of Mississippi, 1891" for over twenty years, but only recently tried to use them for research on original issues for Mississippi from its beginnings to the Civil War, but size, format, age of printed pages, and un-search ability sof them made it impossible to construct a summary of the information. I decided that it needed to be made more usable by transcribing it into a modern format (digital, and searchable), and more economical to reproduce and share with others. I originally thought that a chapter by chapter transcription and publishing would be best, but decided that a somewhat larger, but less than volume size would be best. This book includes Chapters 3 through 5. The first Chapters 1 and 2 are covered in the first edition. Now Chapter 3 goes into an overview of the exploration and settlement of the area (southeast United States). Chapter 4 is devoted to the organization and governmental form of the state. Finally in this first of the series, Chapter 5 lays out the legal and judicial history. We hope you enjoy this part of the early history, of a wonderful area of this country, and the trials it endured to become so.
I have owned the two original Volumes of "Memoirs of Mississippi, 1891" for over twenty years, but only recently tried to use them for research on original issues for Mississippi from its beginnings to the Civil War, but size, format, age of printed pages, and un-search ability of them made it impossible to construct a summary of the information. I decided that it needed to be made into a more usable book by transcribing it into a modern format (digital, and searchable), making it more economical to reproduce and to share with others. I originally thought that a chapter by chapter transcription and publishing would be best, but decided that a somewhat larger, but less than volume size would be best. This book includes Chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 discusses the early wars in which Mississippi was involved: Of these six wars and expeditions discussed five were national and one civil, a striking circumstance, and one which furnishes a basis for a division of the subject, the Civil war, the one fought for the states' rights, being assigned to another chapter (Chapter 7). Of the five national wars and expeditions, the first was for protection of boundary, the second for protection of life, the third for vindication of honor, the fourth from sympathy with a fellow repub¬lic coupled with fear of invasion, and the fifth to secure a newly acquired territory. The second and third are so curiously intermingled and yet separate that they may be with equal fairness classed as two phases of one war. These national movements are: First, the Sabine expedition of 1806 to protect our Louisiana frontier from the Spaniards. Second, the Muscogee war of 1812-14 against the uprising of the southern Indians in the famous Tecumseh conspiracy for extermination of the whites. Third, the British war of 1812-15 in its final action at New Orleans. Fourth, the Texas war of 1836. And Fifth, the Mexican war of 1846-48. Finally Chapter 7 discusses the Civil War from the Mississippi Secession, soldiers of the state, distinguished troops, actions at and prior to Vicksburg, desertions, and the surrender, reconstruction, the iron-clad oath, and finally back in the USS (1870's style). We hope you appreciate this early history, and the wars, and sacrifices the new state and its original people endured to become a State, and to be readmitted after the war,
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891–1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow white citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging from the mundane to the horrific: family picnics, parades, river baptisms, carnivals, fires, funerals, two of Mississippi's last public and legal executions by hanging, and a lynching. From formal portraits to candid images of events in the moment, Pruitt's documentary of a specific yet representative southern town offers viewers today an invitation to meditate on the interrelations of photography, community, race, and historical memory. Columbus native Berkley Hudson was photographed by Pruitt, and for more than three decades he has considered and curated Pruitt's expansive archive, both as a scholar of media and visual journalism and as a community member. This stunning book presents Pruitt's photography as never before, combining more than 190 images with a biographical introduction and Hudson's short essays and reflective captions on subjects such as religion, ethnic identity, the ordinary graces of everyday life, and the exercise of brutal power.
