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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items) |
Abstract | Meriwether Jeff Thompson was a Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo. Papers of Meriwether Jeff Thompson include about 70 Confederate rosters and muster rolls, chiefly of the Army of the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas; Thompson's manuscript autobiography and reminiscences of the Civil War years; correspondence while in active service and as a federal prisoner at Johnsons Island; a Confederate cipher invented by Thompson; and an autograph book. Other papers include correspondence while Thompson was living in New Orleans; accounts, 1866-1867, of the Southern Hospital Association of New Orleans; two speeches during the secession crisis while he was mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.; and other items, including newspaper articles on the Pony Express. |
Creator | Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Meriwether Jeff Thompson, Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.
Back to TopPapers of Meriwether Jeff Thompson include about 70 Confederate rosters and muster rolls, chiefly of the Army of the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas; Thompson's manuscript autobiography and reminiscences of the Civil War years; correspondence while in active service and as a federal prisoner at Johnsons Island; a Confederate cipher invented by Thompson; and an autograph book. Other papers include correspondence while Thompson was living in New Orleans; accounts, 1866-1867, of the Southern Hospital Association of New Orleans; two speeches during the secession crisis while he was mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.; and other items, including newspaper articles on the Pony Express.
Back to TopArrangement: by format.
Folder 1 |
Original finding aid |
1860-1866; 1940 |
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Folder 2 |
1867-1913 |
Folder 3 |
May 1865 |
Folder 4-6
Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6 |
Muster rolls, June 1865 |
Folder 7 |
Muster rolls, September 1861 and undated |
Folder 8 |
Volume 1: Confederate autograph book, 1863-1864 |
Folder 9 |
Volume 2: Notebook kept by Thompson as a member of a committee for a "Lottery or Gift Enterprise for the Benefit of the Southern Hospital Association of New Orleans," 1866-1867 |
Folder 10 |
Volume 3: Autobiographical memoranda and reminiscences of the war years (typed copy) |
Folder 11 |
Volume 3: Part one (manuscript copy) |
Folder 12-16
Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16 |
Volume 3: Part two (manuscript copy) |
Reel M-1566/1 |
Microfilm |