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Biography/History:
Raymond Birchett inherited the materials in this collection. Most of the papers were passed down from his great-grandfather, J. A. Klein; grandmother Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox; grandfather T. G. Birchett; and father J. A. K. Birchett, who was an antiquarian and probably responsible for accumulating the majority of the collection. Little is known of Mrs. C. T. Eggleston or Robert J. Turnbull.Scope and Content:
This collection probably reflects the collecting interests of J. A. K. Birchett. This is especially true of the newspapers (series 9) where a number of early titles (some facsimiles) may be found. Series 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9 contain various items relating to the Civil War. Series 2 includes items on the Vicksburg campaign and its aftermath. Series 3 contains a War of 1812 broadside.Series Identification:
Miscellaneous papers relating to the Vicksburg campaign and the aftermath of the Civil War. Included are items regarding Mrs. C. T. Eggleston's efforts (ca. 1865) to raise money for Jefferson Davis and a letter (A.L.S.) from Varina Howell Davis declining such offers of assistance; items relating to Eggleston's work with the Rebel Minstrel Fund for Confederate Soldiers (1865); various documents concerning the assistance Eggleston and her friends provided to Confederate soldiers; and documents pertaining to Eggleston's work as president of the Vicksburg Confederate Cemetery Association.
Box 1Miscellaneous Civil War correspondence and papers of J. A. K. Birchett, T. G. Birchett, and John A. Klein. Most of the Civil War items relate to the Vicksburg campaign and its aftermath.
Box 1"Verses, on the Signal Victory Obtained over the British Troops at New Orleans, January 8th, 1815, by Gen. Andrew Jackson, and the Brave Troops under His Command," by Nathan Torrey; and a call to members of the Confederate States Cavalry Association to complete funeral arrangements honoring Jefferson Davis.
Box 1Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of Vicksburg City Hospital for 1890-91 to the Legislature of Mississippi; Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (1917); "He's a Collector Extraordinary," Illinois Central Magazine (July 1926); The Confederate Souvenir (n.d.); A Neurectomy of the Fifth Pair, J. H. Burnell, M.S., Vicksburg (n.d.); and Old Folks' Favorite Songster (n.d.).
Box 1Certificates relating to various fraternal organizations in France, including the Masonic order.
Box 1Twenty-dollar Confederate note (No. 44861) issued on February 17, 1864. (original transferred to currency collection).
Box 1Miscellaneous subjects are represented.
Box 1Ten-dollar bond (No. 118593) issued to George Joseph Carl by the Republic of Ireland in 1920.
Box 1Newspapers from Mississippi, other states, and foreign countries are represented. Many were collected by J. A. K. Birchett (see letter of Walthall to Birchett in series 2). Three Massachusetts newspapers bear the signature of Anna R. Holder, mother of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, and must have been handed down in the family. A number of newspapers are facsimiles.
Box 2: Mississippi newspapers
Jackson (Hinds County): Jackson Daily News, July 10, 1949 (fragment).
Natchez (Adams County): Mississippi Free Trader (13:7) September 29, 1847.
Rosedale (Bolivar County): Bolivar County Democrat (18:8) April 30, 1904.
Vicksburg (Warren County): Daily Citizen, June 25, 1863; Daily Citizen, July 2, 1863; Daily Citizen (7 facsimiles); Daily Commercial (1:58) May 5, 1877; Daily Herald, October 8, 1899; Daily Vicksburg Citizen (3:221) November 11, 1862; Daily Vicksburg Citizen (3:222) November 12, 1862; Evening News (1:12) February 4, 1871; Monday Morning News (2:5) October 17, 1905; Monday Morning News (3:1) September 11, 1904; Tri-Weekly Southern Intelligencer (2:101) August 8, 1846; Vicksburg American (10:14) January 21, 1910; Vicksburg Business Chronicle (1:9) November 1, 1875; Vicksburg Daily Tribune (1:50) July 4, 1876; Vicksburg Daily Whig (-:133) August 2, 1862 (fragment); Vicksburg Evening Post (2:145) June 17, 1884; Vicksburg Evening Post (3:46) February 20, 1885; Vicksburg Evening Post, June 14, 1933; Vicksburg Evening Post, March 19, 1936; Vicksburg Evening Post, May 31, 1937; Vicksburg Evening Post, October 28, 1937 (2 copies); Vicksburg Monitor (1:29) April 3, 1875; Vicksburg Weekly Herald (6:8) October 22, 1870 (uncut); Weekly Vicksburger (1:26) September 11, 1874; Weekly Vicksburg Herald (14:28) January 10, 1879.
Box 3: Out-of-state newspapers
Alaska (Dawson City): Klondike Midnight Sun (-:1) 1897.California (San Francisco): Call-Chronicle-Examiner, April 19, 1906; San Francisco Examiner (extra), April 20, 1906.District of Columbia: National Board of Health Bulletin (1:21) November 22, 1879.Illinois (Chicago): Chicago Sunday Tribune (60:251) September 8, 1901; Hearst's Chicago American, September 8, 1901.Hawaii (Honolulu): Pacific Commercial Advertiser (28:4989) August 4, 1898; Pacific Commercial Advertiser (28:4996) August 13, 1898.Louisiana (?): wallpaper edition, ca. 1862 (fragment).
Louisiana (New Orleans): Daily Picayune, ca. April 29, 1865 (fragment); Times-Democrat, July 8, 1888 (fragment); Times-Picayune New Orleans States, March 20, 1938 (fragment).
Massachusetts (Boston): Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770 (facsimile).Massachusetts (Northhampton): Hampshire Gazette (14:697) January 8, 1800; inscribed Anna R. Holder.Massachusetts (Cambridge): New England Chronicle or Essex Gazette, October 5-12, 1775; inscribed Anna R. Holder.Massachusetts (Stockbridge): Western Star (9:51) November 6, 1798; inscribed Anna R. Holder.New York (Kingston): Ulster County Gazette (2:88) January 4, 1800 (facsimile).
New York (New York City): Gaelic American, October 14, 1905 (fragment); New York Morning Post (3:155) November 7, 1783 (facsimile).Tennessee (Memphis): Commercial Appeal, August 6, 1922 (fragment); Commercial Appeal, April 25, 1937 (fragment).Box 3: Foreign newspapers
England (London): Commonwealth Mercury, November 18-25, 1658 (facsimile).Japan (Yokohama): Yokohama Boyeki Shimpo.Philippines (Manila): Freedom (1:2) October 19, 1898; Freedom (1:3) October 22, 1898; Manila Cablenews (3:102) June 27, 1903.
Samoa (Apia): Our Flag (1:4) April 1899.Box 4: Vicksburg newspapers (oversize)Daily Vicksburg Whig (21:142) July 18, 1860; Vicksburg Daily Herald (6:57) March 7, 1869; Vicksburg Daily Herald (19:214) September 10, 1882; Vicksburg Daily Times (6:219) September 17, 1871; Vicksburg Daily Times (6:220) September 19, 1871; Vicksburg Daily Times (6:62) January 18, 1872; Vicksburg Dispatch (2:78) March 31, 1899; Vicksburg Herald (15:6) January 6, 1878 (3 copies); Vicksburg Herald (36:240) October 8, 1899; Vicksburg Herald (38:215) September 7, 1901; Vicksburg Herald (38:216) September 8, 1901; Vicksburg Herald (38:221) September 14, 1901; Vicksburg Herald (38:226) September 20, 1901; Vicksburg Weekly Whig (10:40) October 4, 1848; Vicksburg Whig (extra), December 1857; Vicksburg Whig, October 19, 1862; Vicksburg Whig (extra), n.d.; Weekly American Times (2:19) September 9, 1857; Weekly Vicksburg Whig (23:40) October 9, 1861 (fragment).