Finding Aid for the William Decatur Howell Collection (MUM00235)

Authors

Document Type

Finding Aid

Collection Date

1863-1864

Identifier

MUM00235

LCSH

Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 3rd. Company I; Soldiers -- Mississippi -- Diaries; Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate

General Physical Description Note

1 box (.417 linear feet)

Link to Digitized Collection

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/civ_war/

Description

Diary, letters and passes from William Decatur Howell, private Company I, 3rd. Mississippi Cavalry. Also includes typescripts of the diary and letters from Maud Morrow Brown entitled : "William Decatur Howell 1846-1864: A Soldier's Journal Letters". Nearly all items written between William Decatur Howell and his mother, Nancy Keyes Merriam Howell.

Recommended Citation

William Decatur Howell Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi