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Orig. pub. New York 1873. Reprinted 1972, 1983. Print on Demand Edition 2009. xvi, 532 pp. + illus. A study of the Indians of the southeastern states, this book emphasizes the Georgia tribes but also contains information on the aboriginal inhabitants of Virginia, the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The following topics are covered: the location of the various tribes, the physical characteristics of the Indians, religion and idol worship, medicine, tools and artifacts, family structure, games and arts, funeral customs and mounds, weapons and pipes, fishing and hunting, and many other aspects of life and manners.

Orig. pub. Salisbury, NC, 1801. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2011. viii, 76 pp., new intro., new index James Hall was an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, educator, and patriot who made a missionary journey in 1800-01 which laid the foundations of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi. This first history of the Mississippi Territory was a by-product of Hall's journey down the perilous Natchez Trace to minister to the scattered Presbyterian congregations in the area. More an intelligent and informed historical sketch than an actual history, he describes the country and its boundaries, its form of government, and discusses such topics as the soil, climate, produce, manners and customs, population, and trade and commerce. This volume retains significance as a rare historical document and an eyewitness account.

Orig. pub. Mobile, AL 1876. Reprinted 1975. Print on Demand Edition 2018. xv, 528 pp. This is an important book for the study of the organization of political parties in the South, consisting in great measure of original material. Alabama was the cradle of the Confederacy and William Lowndes Yancey was the moving spirit of secession. The book concentrates on political factions in Alabama in the 1850s and includes many of Yancey's speeches. Other Gulf states enter the picture with the intrusion of the federal government. Early Indian problems are covered as are South Carolina's Nullification efforts. Particularly intriguing is the dialogue within the Cotton Belt regarding the Border States. The author is concerned with examining the reasons for the secession of the southwestern states with an aim of obliterating sectional misunderstanding. He considers factors leading to secession in the context of Alabama history and the events of national history leading up to the election of Lincoln and the… Read More

Vol. II, (iii), 255 pp., index

Vol. I, xii, 216 pp., index, map

Orig. pub. 1953, 1962. Reprinted 1983, 2003. Print on Demand Edition, 2009. The set The Pascagoula River Valley includes Jackson County, Mississippi, and George County, which was part of Jackson County for a century. The existing written and legendary material on this region has been brought together in the first volume of this set, entitled History, Story, and Legend of the Pascagoula Country, which covers the history of the territory up to 1817. Part I of Volume II (History and Genealogy of the Pascagoula River Country) covers additional history of the region, from 1812 to 1960. Part II of Volume II, over half the book, is devoted to genealogy: names of immigrants coming into the region, the census of 1850, families of 1860, cemetery records, and Bible records. Three courthouse fires in Jackson County make this volume particularly valuable as a source of genealogical records.

Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. the set This is the "classic" work on the history of Georgia through the Revolutionary War by Charles Colcock Jones Jr., one of the most versatile and prolific historical writers of all time. He was the first native-born Georgian to write a history of his state. In his U.S. IANA, Wright Howes called this a "most scholarly history of the colonial and revolutionary period of this state." The history received accolades from fellow historians for "its style and extensive use of original sources." Volume One deals with the aboriginal and colonial times while Volume Two covers the revolutionary period. Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe, a young philanthropist who was inspired to find a refuge for "unfortunate individuals, confined for debt, of respectable connections and guilty of no crime." In granting the charter for the colony in 1732, the King was motivated by the anxiety of the Carolinians to establish a buffer to… Read More

708 pp., index, 125 illus. Biographical information on the following individuals is contained in Volume IV: Abernethy, H.B.; Aby, S.H.; Aderholdt, T.S.; Aldridge, F.M.; Alexander, J.P.; Alexander, G.B.; Alexander, H.N.; All Saints College; Allen, Arthur; Allen, J.F.; Allen, J.T.; Allen, T.D..; Anderson, E.A.; Anderson, R.B.; Andrews, F.H.; Armstrong, T.C.; Arnold, G.L.; Arrington, J.H.; Ashley, W.F.; Aycock, W.J.; Backstrom, J.W.; Bailey, C.K.; Bailey, J.W.; Bailey, P.G.; Baird, R.W.; Ballard, E.E.; Barnett, T.J.; Barr, T.P.; Barron, J.O.; Bartran, D.W.; Baskin, W.E.; Bates, C.L.; Batson, W.C.; Baucum, T.A.; Baylis, R.J.; Beech, T.R.; Bell, J.W.; Bennett, G.R.; Bennett, J.O.; Berry, P.W.; Biggs, W.M.; Birdsong, T.B.; Bishop, R.J.; Bitterman, C.H.; Bledsoe, O.F.,III; Blethen, B.J.; Block, F.J.; Block, Louise B.; Blocker, Milton S.,Sr.; Blount, W.N.; Boland, Alice E.; Boland, W.C.; Boswell, Henry; Bouton, C.E.; Boydstun, R.W.; Boykin, T.H.; Braden, W.H.; Bradford, J.W.; Brand, R.F.; Brand, Thomas;… Read More

Orig. pub. Birmingham 1900. Reprinted 1975, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2013. 773 pp., illus., index Pickett's history, one of the most valuable works on the history of the Southern country, is an account of the territory of Alabama prior to its admission as a state with later chapters containing many biographical sketches of men prominent in the later developments of the commonwealth. The Annals by Owen, historical facts in outline fashion, continue that history from statehood in 1819 to 1900. Alabama was settled by the Spanish, French, and British during the colonial period. These early settlers immediately encountered native Indians and one of the strengths of this work is its treatment of the Indians of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana including the Mobilians, Chatots, Thomez, Tensas, Chocktaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, and others. Chapters deal with the French and Spanish in Alabama and Mississippi; the establishment of the Louisiana Territory; the Jesuit presence in Louisiana; conflicts… Read More

Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. xvi, 556 pp., index + illus., maps

Orig. pub. Atlanta 1924. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 200 pp., map Using all the early land grants and other records of the state, McLendon, who was secretary of state in Georgia at the time he wrote this book, put together a valuable study of Georgia's land disposition history dealing specifically with the lands acquired from the Creek and Cherokee Indians and the Georgia western lands in largely what is now Alabama and Mississippi. He discusses the headright and land lottery counties. Particular emphasis, however, is on the Yazoo Land Fraud, a massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795-1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at absurdly low prices. Major companies involved in this were the Georgia Land Company, the Georgia Mississippi Company, the Upper Mississippi Company, and the Tennessee Company. Earlier companies involved were the South Carolina Yazoo Company, the Virginia Yazoo Company, and the Tennessee Yazoo Company.… Read More

Orig. pub. Chicago & Jackson 1925. Reprinted 1978. Print on Demand Edition 2013. The set Available by volume The result of years of laborious research by the gifted director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, this four-volume work was written to satisfy the need for a definitive narrative history based on original sources of information. Volumes I and II contain the historical narrative, beginning with the physical features of Mississippi, a description of the Indians, the European exploration, and early colonization. Chapters describe territorial administrations, statehood, leading figures in the state's early history, expansion, the war with Mexico, the War Between the States, Reconstruction, development into the twentieth century, Mississippi in World War I, education, industry, transportation, banks and finance, religion, the press, racial matters, and the counties of Mississippi. Volumes III and IV contain together over 1400 pages of biographical information on leading… Read More

xiii, 11-905 pp., index, 109 illus. Contents: Armies of Tennessee and Northern Virginia; Mississippi Officers, Organizations and Men; Conditions in Mississippi After the War; Reconstruction Continued; Democrats in Control; John M. Stone's Last Term as Governor; A New Generation; Eight Construction Years; A Century of Statehood; Mississippi in the World War; State Affairs, 1920-1924; Mississippi in Congress; The Judiciary; Education; Industry; Transportation; Banks, Banking and State Finance; Mississippi's Higher Activities; Mississippi Press; Slavery in Mississippi; Racial Influences; and Counties of Mississippi.

xxi, 23-933 pp., index, 141 illus. Contents: Physical Features of Mississippi; Aborigines of Mississippi; Legends, Myths and Eloquence of Mississippi Indians; Spanish Explorers; French Explorers; French Dominion; British Dominion; Spanish Dominion; Sargent Administration, 1798-1801; Administration of W.C.C. Claiborne; Williams and Mead Administrations, 1805-1809; David Holmes, Last Territorial Governor (1809-1817); Statehood; Leading Figures in the State's Early History; Expansion and Inflation; Under the Constitution of 1832; Continued Development; Mississippi in the War with Mexico; Sectional Issues in Mississippi; Mississippi Resists Coercion; Last Confederate Administration; and Mississippi in the War for Southern Independence.

700 pp., index, 125 illus. Biographical information on the following individuals is contained in Volume III: Adams, M.T.; Albriton, J.L; Alexander, J.A.; Alford, W.B.; Allen, A.A.; Allen, B.B.; Allen, J.B.; Allen, J.M.; Allen, P.W.; Allen, W.T.; Alvis, A.H.; Amacker, O.H.; Anderson, W.D.; Armstrong, E.C.; Arnold, J.M.; Backstrom, J.G.; Ball, R.A.; Barbee, J.W.Jr.; Barrett, W.O.; Barron, I.H.; Baugh, W.M.; Beall, B.S.; Beams, D.E.; Belhaven College; Bennett, G.G.; Bennett, J.D.; Bigham, Claudia M.T.; Bingham, D.L.; Bishop, D.H.; Bland, H.O.; Boggess, J.E.; Bondurant, A.L.; Boothe, J.B.; Boozer, A.I.; Bourgeois, A.E.A.; Boyett, J.R.; Boyett, W.G.; Brannon, G.W.; Brewer, W.C.; Bridges, L.C.; Bright, I.B.; Brister, B.E.; Britton, E.H.; Broom, S.C.; Brown, G.L.; Brown, J.N.; Brown, J.T.; Brown, R.L.; Brown, T.J.; Bryan, H.M; Buchanan, W.F.; Buckley, W.C.; Bunch, J.H.; Burkett, O.R.; Bush, M.P.; Butts, E.S.; Campbell, R.B.; Carpenter, W.A.; Carter, H.R.; Carter, J.P.; Cashin, J.M.; Caughey, R.H.;… Read More

Orig. pub. Boston 1883. Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1969. Print on Demand Edition 2016. xvi, 540 pp., index + illus., maps

Orig. pub. New York 1860. Reprinted 1976. Print on Demand Edition 2009. 234 pp. Gen. Sam Dale was a soldier, frontiersman, backwoods politician, and adventurer. Born in Virginia, Dale was active on the frontier as it moved westward through Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Based on personal interviews, the book describes his frontier adventures, his fights with Indians during the Creek Wars, his character and achievements, and relates the frontier and its customs in the style of the time in which he lived. Dale commanded a battalion of Kentucky volunteers against the Creeks in 1814 and carried dispatches for General Andrew Jackson from Georgia to New Orleans. After the war, he became a trader at Dale's Ferry in Alabama, was appointed colonel of militia, held various local offices, and was a delegate to the 1816 convention that divided the territory of Mississippi. He was a member of the first general assembly of Alabama and served in the state legislatures of both Alabama and Mississippi.

Orig. pub. Nashville 1858. Reprinted 1974. Print on Demand Edition 2010. (xii), 236 pp., frontis., new intro., map One of the most engaging and valuable of the first-hand books of Tennessee historical reminiscences, this narrative recounts the adventures of a pioneer, hunter, Indian fighter, and scout during the time from 1790 to 1820 as told by Joseph Bishop to the author. Written in a very florid style, it nevertheless conveys the flavor of an old pioneer's adventures and character. The late Tennessee State Historian Stanley F. Horn, in a special introduction written for this reprint edition, called it "an impressive reflection of the raw reality of pioneer life in Tennessee," and welcomed the reprint edition which will make it more readily accessible to "the many who will be entertained and enlightened by it."

n.p.n.d., Reprinted 1976, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2011. (iii), 245 pp., new index Brief historical sketches and rolls and rosters of military organizations in the service of the Confederacy from the state of Mississippi are included in this book compiled by a member of the 10th Mississippi Regiment. This is a compilation of several newspaper sketches of Mississippi's military contributions to the Civil War effort. Some regiments are covered in chronological order with muster rolls, lists of engagements, and narrative reports, when available. While certainly not a complete state history, this primary source material has value and should not be overlooked. A comprehensive new index has been added to this reprint edition.

Orig. pub. 1908. Reprinted 1978, 1988. Print on Demand Edition 2011. (vii), 650 pp., new intro., new index This "classic study of Mississippi's military heritage" is the result of "a monumental task of locating, identifying, arranging, editing and publishing," performed by Dunbar Rowland, then director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. It is primarily concerned with the Civil War, but all wars and campaigns from 1803 to 1898 are included. Each war is accorded a separate chapter, then subdivided into histories of each military unit. The sources included original manuscript rolls, minutes of military boards, order books, correspondence, diaries, scrap books, official reports, military telegrams, registers of appointments, newspaper files, military service blanks, interviews with soldiers, miscellaneous collections of military papers, and printed sources. Questionnaires distributed to Mississippi's veterans yielded valuable information that would otherwise have been lost. The new… Read More