Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Friday, October 31, 2025

November 11, 2025: The Forgotten Role of Natchez in the Reconstruction Era of Mississippi: Speaker Jere Nash, author of Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862-1877.

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We will take a look at the 10-year period after the Civil War . This turbulent and eventful era of reconstruction was a time when Black Mis...
Monday, May 26, 2025

History of Natchez and Mississippi railroads

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Saturday, May 17, 2025

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Retired Archeologist and Local Historian,   Mr. Smokye Joe Frank to discuss the history of the locomotive, “The Mississippi,” built in Engla...
Saturday, June 5, 2021

The Train Station

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I'm going to post this, even thought it's not finished and I'm still not sure of all the facts.  But I need to post. It was a dr...
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Sunday, June 3, 2018

Remembering the Enslaved: Delia -- A guest post by Tom Scarborough

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This is an oil portrait that has been in my family since the 1840s. It is of an enslaved woman named Delia.  She was the house se...
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Friday, October 6, 2017

More on South-West by a Yankee - Treatment of Slaves 1835

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A description of Natchez, written in 1835 by Joseph Holt Ingraham. Offered without comment: "Many of the planters are nort...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Matters Familia - Ephemera

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I used to have a little online bookstore. I loved venturing out to libraries, Goodwill and Salvation Army stores looking for books to s...
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