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John Jones papers
Notebook/scrapbook (ca. 1850s-1870s) with text of Fourth of July speech, comments, and pasted newspaper clippings compiled by John Jones about Africans and African Americans, politics, and history; freedom certificates issued to John and Mary Jones by the Madison County Circuit Court at Edwardsville (Ill.), and signed by William Brown, Clerk, 1844 Nov. 28; letter of Mary Jones to Albert Hager
Leroy Pope Walker papers
Telegrams (3) received by Gen. Braxton Bragg from Walker, Secretary of War, Confederate States of America (Apr. 11, 12, 13, 1861), plus a dispatch dated Apr. 12, 1861, giving an account of the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Also, document by Walker to newspaper correspondents, July 1, 1861, urging them not to reveal military intelligence to the North; Walker's appointment of
William A. Sypher papers
Diaries (2 v., 1862 Sept. 2-1863 Dec. 31 and 1865 Jan. 1-1865 July 30, and notations through November 1865) of William A. Sypher, a private in Company A of the 42nd Ohio Infantry during the Civil War, and later pension application information (1890-1901). Handwritten entries made almost daily in diaries describe drills, training and maneuvers, weather conditions, and identify his