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Abandonment of property (1)

Alabama. Convict Labor (3)

American bison hunting (1)

Appointment to guardianship (1)

Appointment to office (819)

B

Brine mining (2)

C

Civil war--Central America (1)

Collecting of accounts (89)

College graduation (4)

Concert programs (1)

Confederate States of America--Draft (481)

Confederate States of America--Draft. Evasion (11)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 16 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 26 (2)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 33 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 36 (4)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 39 (3)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 41 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 64 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 68 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 69 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 7 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 77 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 8 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 82 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 86 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. General Order No. 9 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 15 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 154 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 165 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 168 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 176 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 177 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 2321 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 277 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 28 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 313 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 4 (1)

Confederate States of America. Army. Special Order No. 5 (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Chapter LXXXIII (1863) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Chapter XLIV (1864) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Chapter XX (1864) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Chapter XXVII (1863) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Chapter XXXII (1864) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Impressment Law (1863) (36)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Number 41 (1865) (5)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Number 67 (1865) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Sequestration Act (1861) (1)

Confederate States of America. Congress. Legislation. Twenty Negro Law (1862) (32)

Confederate States of America. Oath of Allegiance (2)

Confiscations (5)

Contraband of war--Enslaved people (1)

Contracting Out--Enslaved Labor (5)

Conventions (135)

Conventions--Arkansas. Convention (1861) (5)

Conventions--Constitutional Convention (U.S.) (1787) (2)

Conventions--Convention of the People of the State of Alabama (1861 : Montgomery, Ala.) (2)

Conventions--Episcopal Church. Diocese of Mississippi. Convention (1)

Conventions--Florida. Constitutional Convention (1868) (1)

Conventions--Florida. Secession Convention (1861-1862) (1)

Conventions--Georgia. Convention (1863) (1)

Conventions--Louisiana. Constitutional Convention (1864) (1)

Conventions--Maryland. Constitutional Union National Convention (1860) (2)

Conventions--Mississippi. Constitutional Convention (1865) (4)

Conventions--Mississippi. Constitutional Convention (1868) (34)

Conventions--Mississippi. Convention (1861) (36)

Conventions--Mississippi. Convention (1869) (1)

Conventions--Mississippi. Special Convention (1851) (4)

Conventions--Missouri. Convention (1861-1863) (2)

Conventions--North Carolina. Convention (1861-1862) (1)

Conventions--South Carolina. Convention (1832-1833) (2)

Conventions--South Carolina. Convention (1860-1862) (1)

Conventions--Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.) (2)

Conventions--Tennessee. Union Convention (1865) (1)

Conventions--Texas. Convention (1861) (3)

Conventions--Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond, Va.) (1)

Convict Labor (2)

Crime (828)

Crime--Abandonment (1)

Crime--Adultery (1)

Crime--Affray (11)

Crime--Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon (17)

Crime--Arson (87)

Crime--Assassination (22)

Crime--Assault and battery (67)

Crime--Bigamy (1)

Crime--Bribery (1)

Crime--Burglary (9)

Crime--Contempt of Court (4)

Crime--Counterfeits and counterfeiting (6)

Crime--Destruction of property (107)

Crime--Embezzlement (8)

Crime--Extortion (7)

Crime--Forcible entry and detainer (8)

Crime--Forgery (10)

Crime--Fornication (2)

Crime--Fraud (27)

Crime--Gambling (5)

Crime--Illegitimacy (1)

Crime--Incest (1)

Crime--Intent to Kill (7)

Crime--Jail Escapes (21)

Crime--Kidnapping (7)

Crime--Larceny (86)

Crime--Libel and slander (3)

Crime--Lynching (9)

Crime--Manslaughter (27)

Crime--Murder (217)

Crime--Mutiny (12)

Crime--Perjury (5)

Crime--Poison (7)

Crime--Rape and Sexual Assault (11)

Crime--Receiving stolen property (1)

Crime--Retailing without a license (6)

Crime--Riots (9)

Crime--Robbery (78)

Crime--Sex work (1)

Crime--Shooting (41)

Crime--Smuggling (10)

Crime--Squatting (3)

Crime--Theft (141)

Crime--Threat (44)

Crime--Treason (26)

Crime--Unlawful Cohabitation (2)

Crime--Vagrancy (3)

Crime--Witness intimidation (3)

Criminal Procedure--Acquittals (7)

Criminal Procedure--Amnesty (147)

Criminal Procedure--Arraignment (3)

Criminal Procedure--Arrest (371)

Criminal Procedure--Bounty (3)

Criminal Procedure--Charges and specifications (Civil and Criminal) (9)

Criminal Procedure--Charges and specifications (Courts-martial) (17)

Criminal Procedure--Clemency (98)

Criminal Procedure--Convicted (166)

Criminal Procedure--Declined to prosecute (4)

Criminal Procedure--Escapes (51)

Criminal Procedure--Execution (41)

Criminal Procedure--Extradition (1)

Criminal Procedure--Imprisonment (153)

Criminal Procedure--Indictments (90)

Criminal Procedure--Pardon (297)

Criminal Procedure--Parole (47)

Criminal Procedure--Pleading (9)

Criminal Procedure--Release (67)

Criminal Procedure--Respite (1)

Criminal Procedure--Sentencing (86)

Criminal Procedure--Subpoena (1)

Criminal Procedure--Trials (1)

Criminal Procedure--Writ of Habeas Corpus (27)

Criminal Proecedure--Commutation of Sentence (1)

Cuba--History--Insurrection, 1849-1851 (1)

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Dakota War, Minnesota, 1862 (1)

Day of Fasting and Prayer (7)

Debt relief (31)

Default (Finance) (3)

Disenfranchisement (9)

Distillation (27)

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Emancipation and self emancipation (102)

Emancipation Proclamation (4)

Employees--Dismissal of (4)

Evacuations (23)

Evacuations--Corinth (Miss.), 1862 (1)

Evacuations--Jackson (Miss.), 1863 (2)

Evacuations--Meridian (Miss.), 1864 (1)

Evacuations--Snyder's Bluff (Miss.), 1863 (1)

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Fairs--Mississippi State Fair (2)

Fourth of July (3)

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Guerrilla warfare (11)

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Impressment (237)

Impressment--Enslaved people (103)

Impressment--Exemption (10)

Impressment--War Material (122)

Indian Wars (1)

Intoxicated (14)

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Livestock brands (1)

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Massachusetts. Legislation. Chapter 111 (Unknown) (1)

Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1)

Memorialization (3)

Meridian Race Riot (1871) (1)

Mexican War, 1846-1848 (25)

Military Engagements (202)

Military Engagements--Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 (2)

Military Engagements--Appomattox Courthouse, Battle of, Va., 1865 (1)

Military Engagements--Ball's Bluff, Battle of, Va., 1861 (4)

Military Engagements--Belmont, Battle of, Mo., 1861 (1)

Military Engagements--Bon Secour, Destruction of, Ala., 1864 (1)

Military Engagements--Buena Vista, Battle of, Mexico, 1847 (2)

Military Engagements--Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 (16)

Military Engagements--Bull Run, 2nd Battle of, Va., 1862 (3)

Military Engagements--Champion's Hill, Battle of, Miss., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Chancellorsville, Battle of, Va., 1863 (3)

Military Engagements--Chapultepec, Battle of, Mexico City, Mexico, 1847 (1)

Military Engagements--Chickasaw Bayou, Battle of, Warren County, Miss., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Confederate Heartland Offensive, Tenn. and Ky., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Corinth, Battle of, Miss., 1862 (8)

Military Engagements--Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862 (3)

Military Engagements--Farmington, Battle of, Miss., 1862 (2)

Military Engagements--Fort Donelson, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 (14)

Military Engagements--Fort Henry, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 (6)

Military Engagements--Fort Sumter, Siege of, Charleston, S.C., 1861 (6)

Military Engagements--Fredericksburg, Battle of, Va., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Gaines' Mill, Battle of, Va., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Galveston, Battle of, Tex., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Gettysburg, Battle of, Pa., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Goodrich's Landing, Battle of, La., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Grierson's Cavalry Raid, Miss., 1863 (7)

Military Engagements--Harrisburg, Battle of, Miss., 1864 (1)

Military Engagements--Iuka, Battle of, Miss., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Jackson, Battle of, Miss., 1863 (5)

Military Engagements--John Brown's Raid, Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1859 (3)

Military Engagements--Malvern Hill, Battle of, Va., 1862 (3)

Military Engagements--Meridian, Campaign, Miss., 1864 (2)

Military Engagements--Mill Springs, Battle of, Ky., 1862 (2)

Military Engagements--Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864 (1)

Military Engagements--Monterrey, Battle of, Mexico, 1846 (1)

Military Engagements--Mormon, Campaign, Miss., 1857-1858 (1)

Military Engagements--Nashville, Battle of, Tenn., 1864 (2)

Military Engagements--New Orleans, Capture of, La., 1862 (3)

Military Engagements--Palo Alto, Battle of, Miss., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Pensacola, Expedition of, Fla., 1861 (4)

Military Engagements--Port Gibson, Battle of, Miss., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--Roanoke Island, Battle of, NC., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Seven Days' Battles, Va., 1862 (3)

Military Engagements--Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864 (3)

Military Engagements--Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 (20)

Military Engagements--Snyder's Bluff, Battle of, Miss., 1863 (8)

Military Engagements--Somerset, Battle of, Ky., 1863 (1)

Military Engagements--South Mountain, Battle of, Md., 1862 (1)

Military Engagements--Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 (2)

Military Engagements--Vicksburg, Siege of, Miss., 1863 (16)

Military Engagements--Whale Wars (American Civil War) (1)

Military Engagements--Wilson's Creek, Battle of, Mo., 1861 (2)

Military Engagements--Yazoo Pass, Expedition of, Miss., 1863 (5)

Military Events--Armistices (2)

Military Events--Blockade (38)

Military Events--Capitulations, Military (97)

Military Events--Disband Military Units (72)

Military Events--Insubordination (14)

Military Events--Insurrections (56)

Military Events--Invasions (131)

Military Events--Martial law (16)

Military Events--Military Bounty (2)

Military Events--Military desertion (42)

Military Events--Military discharge (425)

Military Events--Military elections (209)

Military Events--Military leaves and furloughs (149)

Military Events--Military occupation (28)

Military Events--Military service exemption (306)

Military Events--Military transfer (161)

Military Events--Prisoner Exchange (16)

Military Events--Raid (114)

Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment (847)

Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment (Enslaved people) (1)

Military Events--Veterans' Reunions (1)

Mississippi Arsenal Explosion, Jackson, Miss., 1862 (2)

Mississippi Convict Leasing (18)

Mississippi--Census, 1871 (1)

Mississippi. Legislation (19)

Mississippi. Legislation. An act to incorporate a Board of Levee Commissioners for Bolivar, Washington, and Issaquena Counties and for other purposes (1865) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. An act to prevent the distillation of spirituous liquors… (Approved April 5, 1864) (20)

Mississippi. Legislation. Article VI (1870) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Article XXIX (1871) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter CXCI (1862) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter CXV (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter CXVII (1863) (3)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter I (1865) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter II (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter LIV (1861) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter LIX (1864) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter LX (1864) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter LXIV (1864) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter LXVII (1863) (7)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter VII (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XCII (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XIV (1864) (2)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XLIV (1861) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XLIV (1864) (4)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XLVI (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XVI (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XVI (1864) (2)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXII (1864) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXIII (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXVI (1865) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXVII (1863) (4)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXVII (1864) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Chapter XXXVI (1863) (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Prohibition Law (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi (1)

Mississippi. Legislation. Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi (1857) (10)

Mississippi. Legislation. Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi (1860) (1)

Mississippi. Supreme Court--David Edward Freeman v. State of Mississippi (1867) (1)

Mississippi. Supreme Court--Ritts v. State of Mississippi (1)

Mississippi. Supreme Court--Stringfellow v. the State of Mississippi (1)

Mississippi. Supreme Court--The State of Mississippi v. Creed Taylor (1870) (1)

Monument erection (1)

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National Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Discipline (1870 : Cincinnati, Ohio) (1)

New York--Census, 1855 (1)

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Political elections (295)

Political elections--Election of 1852 (3)

Political elections--Election of 1856 (5)

Political elections--Election of 1858 (1)

Political elections--Election of 1860 (31)

Political elections--Election of 1863 (1)

Political elections--Election of 1865 (1)

Political Elections--Election of 1868 (1)

Political elections--Mississippi. Election of 1851 (1)

Political elections--Mississippi. Election of 1861 (2)

Political elections--Mississippi. Election of 1862 (3)

Political elections--Mississippi. Election of 1863 (2)

Political elections--Mississippi. Election of 1864 (3)

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Resignation (224)

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Scott, Dred, 1809-1858--Trials, litigation, etc. (2)

Secession (154)

Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842 (4)

Seminole War, 3rd, 1855-1858 (1)

Sex (1)

Slave trade--United States (9)

Social gatherings (2)

Starvation (69)

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Taxation--Confederate States of America (38)

Taxation--Exemption (85)

Taxation--Mississippi (150)

The British North America Act, 1867 (1)

Total solar eclipses (1)

Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement Between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic (1848 February 2) (2)

Trial (180)

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United States--Census, 1850 (1)

United States--Census, 1860 (2)

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 (9)

United States--History--War of 1812 (6)

United States. Army. General Order No. 10 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 110 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 22 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 23 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 28 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 40 (2)

United States. Army. General Order No. 53 (1)

United States. Army. General Order No. 8 (1)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 14 (1)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 16 (1)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 2 (1)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 26 (1)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 474 (5)

United States. Army. Special Order No. 7 (1)

United States. Carriage of Passengers (1855) (1)

United States. Confiscation Act, 1861 (1)

United States. Confiscation Act, 1862 (1)

United States. Congress. Legislation (2)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Freedman's Bureau Act (1865) (1)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Fugitive Slave Law (1850) (3)

United States. Congress. Legislation. General Amnesty Act (1865) (69)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Ordinance of 1787 (2)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Pacific Railroad Act (1864) (1)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Swamp Land Act (1850) (4)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Tariff Act (1857) (1)

United States. Congress. Legislation. Third Reconstruction Act (1867) (5)

United States. Constitution (19)

United States. Constitution. 13th Amendment (1)

United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment (3)

United States. Constitution. 15th Amendment (7)

United States. Constitution. 3rd Amendment (1)

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Vaccination (3)

Virginia. Constitutional Convention (1829-1830) (1)

Voter registration (5)

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