Correspondence, scrapbooks, and account books of Major John J. Hood (1837–1910), native of Alabama and resident of Forest, Meridian, and Jackson. Hood served in the Confederate army as a scout until 1863 when he transferred to the Reverend C. K. Marshall's staff in Richmond. He was paroled in April 1865. After the war Hood had a mercantile business in Forest, and later was a bookkeeper for Marks-Rothenberg Company, Meridian. He was also a feature writer for Meridian and Jackson newspapers.

Included in the collection are letters from C. K. Marshall, Clement Evans, Robert Lowry, A. J. McLaurin, Stephen D. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, J. A. P. Campbell, and Frederick Sullens. The papers also contain pictures, funeral notices, manuscripts of articles by Hood, and six scrapbooks of newspaper clippings. The other volumes are a diary, April 11, 1860–June 1862, and account books for 1874, 1876, 1882–1883, 1906–1909. The volume for 1876 contains a detailed description of his trip to the eastern part of the United States.