Research Files of Dr. John Neff

Dr. John Neff (1961-2020) created the Center for Civil War Research in 2009 and served as its director until his death in 2020. He joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 1999. With a research focus in Civil War memory, he was delighted to be invited to participate in the placing of a monument to the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment at Gettysburg National Military Park in 2000. His first book, Honoring the Civil War Dead: Commemoration and the Problem of Reconciliation, appeared in 2005 from the University Press of Kansas. That year, he was also named the College of Liberal Arts Teacher of the Year, and in 2009 he received the Elsie B. Hood Outstanding Teacher Award. At the time of his death, he was researching the legacy of the Civil War in Chicago, a project he had tentatively titled City of Memory.

Presented here are a number of Neff's research files, in which he had compiled information about Civil War cemeteries, monuments and reunions, as well as lists of recommended reading. They were "works in progress"; files with similar names or alternate formats have been included together on the same record for convenience.

Link to UM News article: Professor John Neff's Door was Always Open

Photo of John Neff by Nathan Latil/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Service