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Descriptive Summary

PURL: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00462/
Title: E.C. Walthall Collection
Dates: 1834-1924 (bulk 1838-1895)
Collector: Walthall, Edward C. (Edward Cary), 1831-1898
Physical Extent: 1 box (.5 linear feet) )
Repository: University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA
Identification: MUM00462
Language of Material: English
Abstract: Edward Carey Walthall rose to the rank of major general in the Confederate Army and represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate from 1885-94 & 1895-98.  The E.C. Walthall Collection contains family financial documents, correspondence, and clippings dating from 1834 to 1902.

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Subject Terms

Walthall, Edward C. (Edward Cary), 1831-1898
Legislators -- United States
Mississippi -- History


Formats

correspondence
clippings (information artifacts)
financial records


Biographical Note

Edward Carey Walthall was born on 4 April 1831 in Richmond, Virginia.  While still a child he moved with his family to Holly Springs, Mississippi where he attended the Academy of St. Thomas.  Admitted to the bar in his early twenties, Walthall began his law practice in Coffeeville, Mississippi.  In 1856, he was elected District Attorney of the state's tenth judicial district.  Walthall held this position until he resigned in 1861 to enter the Confederate Army. 

He began his military service as a First Lieutenant of Company H, Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment, but his aptitude soon led to promotion.  By June of 1861, Walthall was a Lieutenant-Colonel and his cool skill holding the defensive line at the Battle of Mill Springs in Kentucky earned him a colonel's rank in the Twenty-Ninth Mississippi.  By December 1862, Walthall had obtained the rank of Brigadier General and again held a defensive position at the Battle of Chickamauga that permitted a retreat in good order.  At the Battle of Nashville, the talented officer commanded the division that prevented yet another disastrous withdrawal.  Participating in all the major battles from Missionary Ridge to Atlanta, Walthall rose to the rank of Major-General by June 1864.

After the war, Walthall returned to his law practice in Coffeeville until 1871 when he moved to Grenada.  Influential in state politics, Walthall served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1868, 1876, 1880, 1884, and 1896.  In 1885, Governor Robert Lowry appointed the general to fill the vacancy in the U.S. Senate left by L.Q.C. Lamar's resignation to accepting the office of U.S. Secretary of the Interior.  The state legislature reaffirmed his appointment in all subsequent elections. 

During his Senate tenure, Walthall served on the following committees: Civil Service and Retrenchment; Education and Labor; Public Lands; Revolutionary Claims (becoming its chairman in 1897); Improvement of the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries; Indian Depredations; Organization, Conduct and Expenditures of the Executive Department; and Military Affairs (becoming chairman of this latter committee in 1893).  Along with his colleague J.Z. George, Walthall played a prominent role in the defeat of the 1890 Federal Elections Bill (or, Force Bill) which threatened federal supervision of congressional elections in order to protect African-American suffrage.

In poor health, Walthall resigned from the Senate on 24 January 1894.  His successor, Anselm McLaurin, served in the third session of the Fifty-third Congress from December 1894 to March 1895.  Reelected to the Senate, Walthall served from March 1895 until his death on 21 April 1898.  His last official business in the Senate was delivering the eulogy for his colleague J.Z. George.  Walthall's funeral service took place in that same chamber two weeks later before an assembly that included the President, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, and the diplomatic corps.  Transported to Mississippi, his body lies interned in the Holly Spring Cemetery.

In his autobiography, Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts wrote "If I were to select the one man of all others with whom I have served in the Senate, who seems to me the most perfect example of the quality and character of the American Senator, I think it would be Edward C. Walthall of Mississippi....He rarely took part in debate.  He was a very modest man.  He left to his associates the duty of advocating his and their opinions, unless he was absolutely compelled by some special reason to do it himself.  When he did speak the Senate listened to a man of great ability, eloquence and dignity."


Bibliography

Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Vol. 2. Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1891, pp. 977-79.

Bradley G. Bond.  "Edward Cary Walthall, 1865-1890: A Redeemer Reappraisal."  Master's thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1987.

_____________.  "Edward C. Walthall and the 1880 Senatorial Nomination: Politics of Balance in the Redeemer Era" Journal of Mississippi History 50 (February 1988), pp. 1-20.

Reuben Davis.  Recollections of Mississippi and Mississippians.  Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.  Pages 340-44.

Alfred W. Garner.  "Public Services of E.C. Walthall" Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 9 (1906), pp. 239-53.

Paul Douglas Hardin.  "Edward Carey Walthall: A Mississippi Conservative."  Master's thesis, Duke University, 1940.

James Ervin Helms.  "Edward Cary Walthall: Soldier and Statesman."  Master's Thesis, George Peabody College for Teachers, 1928.

Marie Rutledge.  Winfield Scott Featherstone [i.e. Featherston] and Edward Cary Walthall of Holly Springs, Mississippi.  [Greenwood, MS]: Rutledge, 1977.

E.A. Smith.  Records of Walthall's Brigade of Mississippians.  Brewton, AL: n.p., 1904.

Edward C. Walthall.  Address of E.C. Walthall, Delivered at the Dedication of the Monument to the Confederate Dead at Jackson, Miss., June 3, 1891.  N.p.: 1891. 

________________.  The Unity of the South Not a Policy But a Necessity: Speech of Hon. Edward C. Walthall of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, Monday, January27, 1890.  N.p.: 1890.


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Prefered Citation

E.C. Walthall Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi

Access Restrictions

The E.C. Walthall Collection is open for research.

Copyright Restrictions

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Related Material

Resources at the University of Mississippi

Book of Presidents. Mrs. E.C. Walthall presented this scrapbook of clippings on U.S. Presidents to Nellie O'Callaghan in 1889. Location: SMMSS 79-8

Clark-Freeman Papers. This small collection has correspondence and items related to Cary Freeman Clark, niece of Walthall. Location: SMMSS 76-2.

Daughters of the American Revolution (David Reese Chapter) Collection. Box 3 holds a scrapbook with clippings on the death of Walthall. http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00098/

Edmondson / Bray / Williams / Stidham Collection. Box 1, Folder 22 contains an 1850 letter from Sophia Bridges in Oxford, Mississippi discussing E.C. Walthall. Box 1, Folder 28 has an 1855 letter describes Walthall's marriage to Sophia Bridges and another letter that same year discussing her death. Box 33 holds an autograph album and a poetry album possessed by Sophia Bridges. http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00119/

Kate Walthall Freeman Collection. Walthall was Freeman's great-uncle, and her father, Edward Donaldson Clark, had practiced law with Walthall in Holly Springs. The collection contains funeral notices, memory books, photocopied correspondence, and manuscripts. Location: SMMSS 76-2.

L.Q.C. Lamar Collection. Walthall was a friend and law partner of the statesman L.Q.C. Lamar, and this collection includes correspondence by and to Walthall as well as letters and clippings about Walthall. Location: SMMSS 76-5.

William Lockwood Letters. The Lockwood Collection includes Walthall correspondence. Location: SMMSS 76-2.

Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Edward C. Walthall: (Late a Senator from Mississippi) Delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Fifty-fifth Congress, Second and Third Sessions. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1899. Call Number: E664 W3 U5

Records of Walthall's Brigade Broadside. E.A. Smith announces the completion of his 1904 book on the Civil War brigade led by Walthall. Location: SMMSS 97-1.

Eugene T. Sykes. Walthall's Brigade: A Cursory Sketch with Personal Experiences of Walthall's Brigade, Army of Tennessee, C.S.A., 1862-1865. Columbus, MS: s.p., 1905. Call Number: E516.5 W35 S94 1905

Edward C. Walthall. Federal Election Bill: Speech of Hon. E.C. Walthall, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, December 7, 1890. Washington, DC: 1890. Call Number: KF4885 A25 1890

_______________. The Race Problem in Politics: Speech of Hon. E.C. Walthall, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, August 27, 1888. Washington, DC: 1888. Call Number: JK1929 M7 W3

_______________. Silver Coinage: Speech of E.C. Walthall, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, September 7, 1893. Washington [DC]: 1893. Call Number: HG529 W3 1893

E.C. Walthall Clippings. These nineteenth-century clippings on E.C. Walthall also include obituary articles on family members. Location: Oversized SMMSS 79-2.

E.C. Walthall Etching. Chat B. Hall of New York created this portrait of Walthall in his Confederate uniform. Walthall appears to have signed his name below the portrait. Location: Oversized SMMSS.

John Sharp Williams Collection. Includes original correspondence from Walthall as well as other related material. http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00480/

Resources at Other Institutions

Alabama Department of Archives and History. The Henry S. Halbert Papers and the Elbert D. Willett Pickens Planters' Diary.

Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library. The William E. Mickle Papers.

Hagley Museum and Library in Greenville, Delaware. The Jacob S. Rogers Letterpress Copybook.

Mississippi State University Libraries. R.E. Wilbourn Collection includes an 1891 letter from Walthall and a photograph.

National Archives. The War Department Collection of Confederate Records, Record Group 109, includes Walthall correspondence from 1863-64.

Tennessee State Library & Archives. The McGavock Family Papers includes correspondence with Walthall.

University of Southern Mississippi. The archives possesses an 1889 letter by author Augusta J. Evans to Walthall.


Arrangement

The first two folders in the collection hold early handwritten and typed finding aids to the collection.  Folders 3 through 74 primarily contain original financial documents dating from 1834 to 1846, although a few folders have correspondence and currency notes from this period as well.  Most of these records are receipts and money orders that document the financial relationship between B.W. Walthall and E.C. Wilkinson in Marshall County & DeSoto County, Mississippi.

Folders 75 through 104 consist mainly of photocopied Walthall family correspondence dating from 1846 to 1902.  Among the letters are several written by E.C. Walthall and his brothers during the Civil War.  These files also include E.C. Walthall letters from the period 1877 to 1893 that comment on political matters.

Folders 105 through 116 hold more original financial documents that are Undated (most likely 1830s and 1840s).  The last two files in the collection contain clippings from Washington, DC and Mississippi newspapers featuring articles on E.C. Walthall and his family that date from 1863 to 1924.


Container List

b1f1 Handwritten preliminary inventory for collection, Undated (15 pages)
b1f2 Brief typed inventories, Undated (9 pages)
Correspondence and Documents, 1834-1902 and Undated
b1f3 M. Walthall signed note of The Real Estate Banking Company of Columbus, Mississippi, 4 December 1837
b1f4 Handwritten letter from E.B. Wilkinson in Manchester, Mississippi to Barrett W. Walthall in Richmond, Virginia, 9 May 1838
Scope: arrangements for joining Walthall in a Holly Springs, Mississippi business
b1f5 Receipt for payment from E.B. Wilkinson to H.O. Beaty and W.H. Swan, 4 July 1838
b1f6 Handwritten document signed by John C. Hill, 4 July 1838
Scope: title bond for sale of land in Holly Springs, Mississippi
b1f7 Handwritten receipt of payment from B.W. Walthall to David Baker, 15 September 1838
b1f8 Handwritten document signed by Byrd Hill, 7 April 1837
Scope: bond for land sale in Holly Springs, Mississippi
b1f9 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to Beaty & Swan, 25 November 18[3/4]8
Scope: "for work done on, and material furnished for his business" near Holly Springs
b1f10 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with Beaty & Swan, 1838-1839
b1f11 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to Tucker & Taylor in Holly Springs, 19 February 1839
Scope: purchase of 133 bushels of lime
b1f12 Handwritten receipt for payment by E.C. Wilkinson to Beaty & Swan in Holly Springs, 30 March 1839
Scope: "on account of work done by us for him on his dwelling home."
b1f13 Handwritten receipt for payment by B.W. Walthall to William Y. Goodall Jr., 21 November 1839
Scope: one gallon of lamp oil
b1f14 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to H.O. Beaty , 30 April 1839
Scope: "on account work done on building near Holly Springs."
b1f15 Handwritten receipt for payment by E.C. Wilkinson from W.H. Swan, April 1839
Scope: "on account of work done on his building near Holly Springs."
b1f16 Handwritten receipt for payment by E.C. Wilkinson to James C. Bailey, 29 May 1839
Scope: "on a/c painting done on his house."
b1f17 Handwritten money order by Hugh Beaty to B.W. Walthall for payment on Beaty's account to Dr. R.W. Thomas, 17 July 1839
b1f18 Handwritten money order by Hugh Beaty to B.W. Walthall for payment of Beaty's account to Dr. R.W. Thomas, 2 July 1839
b1f19 Handwritten receipt for payment by B.C. Walthall to Niles Elder & Co., 18 December 1840
Scope: hinges and screws
b1f20 Handwritten promissory note by E.C. Wilkinson for payment to Dalzell & Smith, 12 October 1949
Scope: also receipt of payment notes
b1f21 Handwritten money order by E.C. Wilkinson to B.W. Walthall requesting payment to William O. Beaty, 12 October 1839
b1f22 Handwritten money order by E.C. Wilkinson to Hernando Bank for payment to Dalzell & Smith, 12 October 1839
b1f23 Handwritten money order by E.C. Wilkinson for payment to Paul Rather, 12 October 1839
b1f24 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with Beaty & Swan, 12 October 1839
Scope: building supplies
b1f25 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with Beaty & Swan, 12 October 1839
Scope: building supplies
b1f26 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with W.O. Beaty, 12 October 1839
Scope: building supplies
b1f27 Handwritten money order of E.C. Wilkinson for payment to Wilson Swan by B. Walthall in Holly Springs, 12 October 1839
b1f28 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with W.H. Swan, 12 October 1839
Scope: building supplies
b1f29 Handwritten money order by E.C. Wilkinson for payment by B.W. Walthall to W.H. Beaty, 12 October 1839
b1f30 Handwritten money order by Hugh Beaty for payment by E.C. Wilkinson to W.J. Long, 12 October 1839
b1f31 Handwritten money order by E.C. Wilkinson for payment by B.W. Walthall to William O. Beaty, 12 October 1839
b1f32 Handwritten deed bond to E.C. Wilkinson by Henry F. Samuel & David H. Bledsoe, 13 October 1839
Scope: land purchase in Pontotoc, Mississippi
b1f33 Handwritten money order of Hugh Beaty for payment by B.W. Walthall to Samuel H. Thomas, 14 October 1839
b1f34 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to Hugh Beaty, 24 October 1839
Scope: "Plastering front and back rooms of slave house in Holly Springs."
b1f35 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to Morris Hamner, 24 October 1839
Scope: "Hauling water to Judge Wilkinson House."
b1f36 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to H.O. Beaty, 25 October 1939
b1f37 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to A.G. Lewell, Undated
Scope: delivering containers to N.B. Winchester in Memphis and "two bins tobacco" for delivery to Mr. [Braddox] in Mount Pleasant
b1f38 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson , Undated
Scope: payment to "workmen"
b1f39 Handwritten notes and calculations on transactions with contractors, 1839
b1f40 Account statement of Walthall & Wilkinson with A. Hester, April-October 1839
Scope: medical expenses
b1f41 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall with C.R. Semansky, 14 February 1840
Scope: tuition for French lessons with Catherine [Walthall] and for lessons with Miss [Patience] Wilkinson
b1f42 Handwritten promissory note unsigned [Patience Wilkinson] to Barrett W. Walthall, 4 March 1840
b1f43 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall to Joseph Kosrowski, 24 March 1840
Scope: music lessons for Patience Wilkinson
b1f44 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall to Joseph Kosrowski , 2 April 1840
Scope: tuition for music lessons for [Catherine] Walthall & [Patience] Wilkinson
b1f45 Handwritten receipt for payment by B.W. Walthall to Holland & Bond, 30 March 1840
Scope: pine flooring
b1f46 Handwritten notes on debt collection for B.W. Walthall & Judge Wilkinson, 27 April 1840
b1f47 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to C. Parish, 22 May 1840
Scope: tuition for Catherine M. Walthall & Patience B. Wilkinson
b1f48 Handwritten receipt of payment by Harding to DeSoto County Probate Clerk, 4 August 1840
Scope: "the expenses of recording a deed from H.G. Samuel to E.C. Wilkinson"
b1f49 Handwritten letter from B.R. Wilkinson in Benton, Mississippi to Mrs. B.W. Walthall in Holly Springs, 13 August 1840
Scope: health of "girl," prescription for treatment, sickness in Holly Springs, family news, General Foote's speech on 3 September, log cabin raising.
b1f50 Handwritten credit note by William C. Edmonson, 29 December 1840
Scope: transaction involves E__ Minron, P.H. Goodmen & Co. of New Orleans, B.W. Walthall, and E.C. Wilkinson
b1f51 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to Barton & Chalmers, 7 March 1841
Scope: "for defense Mississippi Union Bank."
b1f52 Handwritten bill for B.W. Walthall by C. Parish, 24 April 1841
Scope: school tuition
b1f53 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall to C. Parish in Holly Springs, 22 May 1841
Scope: tuition for Patience B. Wilkinson and Catherine M. Walthall
b1f54 Handwritten receipt for payment by Walthall to E.D. Curilllier, 8 June 1841
Scope: piano lessons for Catherine Walthall & Patience Wilkinson
b1f55 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to O.D. Watson & Co., 30 July 1841
Scope: sail rope
b1f56 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall to E.D. Cuvillier, 1840
Scope: music lessons for Catherine Walthall & Patience Wilkinson
b1f57 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall to C. Parish, 20 December 1841
Scope: tuition for Catherine Walthall & Patience Wilkinson
b1f58 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to Samuel T. Cobb, Undated
Scope: state and county taxes for 1841
b1f59 Handwritten receipt of payment by Walthall to C. Parish, 4 July 1842
Scope: tuition for Catherine Walthall & Patricia B. Walthall
b1f60 Handwritten memorandum on land in Marshall County, 19 July 1842
b1f61 Handwritten receipt for payment by E.C. Wilkinson to Daniel Rather, 15 August 1842
Scope: "for papering house."
b1f62 Handwritten receipt of payments by E.C. Wilkinson & B.W. Walthall to J.R.M. Carroll & Co., 1 April 1843
Scope: state and county property taxes for 1842
b1f63 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to DeSoto County tax collector, Undated
Scope: state & county property taxes for 1842
b1f64 Handwritten receipts for payment by E.C. Wilkinson & B.W. Walthall to J.R.M. Carroll, 15 January 1844
Scope: state & county property taxes for 1843
b1f65 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson , Undated
Scope: property tax for 1843
b1f66 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson & B.W. Walthall to J.R.M. Carroll, 2 January 1845
Scope: state & county property taxes for 1844
b1f67 Handwritten account statement of B.W. Walthall with M.B. Winchester, 1841
Scope: grocery bills
b1f68 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to William Compers, 15 May 1845
Scope: lumber & hauling
b1f69 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to Joseph Mouly, 24 June 1845
Scope: hauling land with wagon, clearing well, house repairs
b1f70 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to E.M. Archer; handwritten memorandum by B.W. Walthall on payment due E.M. Archer., 4 August 1845
Scope: digging and curbing a well
b1f71 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to J.H. Murray & Co., Undated
Scope: [state & county property taxes] on land in DeSoto County
b1f72 Handwritten receipt of payment by B.W. Walthall & E.C. Wilkinson to J.R.M. Carroll; handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to J.W Barnes in Holly Springs, 30 December 1845
Scope: state and county property tax for 1845
b1f73 Handwritten receipt of payment by E.C. Wilkinson to P.B. Wilkinson, 30 December 1845
b1f74 Handwritten indenture between Norfleet R. Sledge & Edward C. Wilkinson in Marshall County, Mississippi, 22 October 1846 (2 sheets)
Scope: land sale in Holly Springs
b1f75 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E. Green in Monterey, Mexico to Kate Walthall, 22 December 1846 (4 pages)
Scope: death of comrades, war, marriage, camp versus Walthall parlor
b1f76 Handwritten letter from Mary A. Wilkinson to [Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 19 March 1855 (1 sheet)
Scope: death of brother, visit with Mrs. Tom Gholson in Virginia Springs, death of Uncle W. Terrell, death of Sally Tankersly Cabell, lack of relatives nearby, met with Dr. Robert Cary & John Cary in White Sulpher, cousin George Poindexter in Lexington, Mary Frances Royster, cousin Edwin Poindexter
b1f77 Photocopy of handwritten letter from B.A. Walthall at Camp Esau in Harrington, Tennessee? to Kate W. Freeman in Holly Springs, Mississippi; original envelope , 19 August 1861 (2 pages; 1 original envelope)
Scope: drilling, General Bragg's comments on building batteries, stormy weather, ill health in company
b1f78 Bank of Tennessee notes: two 25 cent notes dated 1 December 1861 and one 50 cent note dated 1 December 1861, 1861
b1f79 Mississippi Central Rail Road Company note: 5 cent note signed and dated 1 January 1862, 1862
b1f80 Photocopy of handwritten letter from J.B. Walthall in Holly Springs, Mississippi to "Ben" [Bennett Walthall], 6 August 1863 (7 pages)
Scope: General Scruggs, Vicksburg siege, General Pemberton, surrender of Vicksburg
b1f81 Handwritten transcript of letter in folder 80, (4 pages)
b1f82 Photocopy of handwritten letter from Edward C. Walthall at "Camp near Chickamauga," Tennessee to "My dear father & mother" [Mr. & Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 5 September 1863 (2 pages)
Scope: enemy, General C. Hindman, news of friends and relations, ultimate success of the war
b1f83 Photocopy of handwritten letter from Mary L. Walthall to Cary [Freeman], 21 November 1863 (2 pages)
Scope: school, piano, family
b1f84 Photocopy of handwritten letter from Edmond Walthall in Dalton, Georgia to "My dear Mother" [Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 10 March 1864 (4 pages)
Scope: his mother's health, offer of cavalry brigade, Virginia, "Ben," sightings of friends
b1f85 Photocopy of handwritten letter from B.A. Walthall in Dalton, Georgia to "Dear Mother" [Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 31 March 1864 (4 pages)
Scope: march from Holly Springs to Georgia, selling his horse, Bishop Payne, General Hindman, sister Mary, General Hood's Corps
b1f86 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.[C.] Walthall in Hindman's Division, Hood's Corps, Army of Tennessee to Kate W. Freeman in Holly Springs, Mississippi, 31 March 1864 (4 pages)
Scope: privations at home, war's success, slavery, his wife, his 33rd birthday, card photograph, his health, presentation of saddle & bridle by the officer's in his brigade
b1f87 Photocopy of handwritten letter from George Walthall in Franklin, Tennessee to "My Darling Mother" [Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 2 December 1864 (4 pages)
Scope: battle near Franklin, General Barksdale, Columbia
b1f88 Photocopy of handwritten letter from George Walthall in Franklin, Tennessee to "My Dear Pa" [B.W. Walthall], December 1864 (2 pages)
Scope: loss of horses in battle, Nashville
b1f89 Photocopy of handwritten letter from George Walthall near Smithfield, North Carolina to "My Dear Darling Mother" [Mrs. B.W. Walthall], 1 April 1865 (5 pages)
Scope: his mother's health, loss of letters written home, Tennessee Army, General Robert E. Lee, success of war, consolidation bill, negroes in the army, E.C. Walthall, uniform, family servants, Cousin Cary
b1f90 A. Shwartz & Son [New Orleans, Louisiana dry goods merchants] note: two 25 cent notes dated 1874, 1874
b1f91 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.[C.] Walthall near Jackson, Mississippi to [E.D.] Clark, 4 December 1877 (2 pages)
Scope: contributing to J.F.H. Claiborn's "History of Mississippi"
b1f92 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, Mississippi to E.D. Clark, 12 March 1878 (11 pages)
Scope: "difficulty at Jackson," lengthy biographical account
b1f93 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, Mississippi to E.D. Clark, 20 October 1879 (2 pages)
Scope: account of Col. [L.Q.C.] Lamar's speech, Vicksburg politics
b1f94 Handwritten letter from R.H. Smith of The Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts to Mr. Wright, editor of the Vicksburg Herald, 26 December 1879 (1 sheet)
Scope: "liberal element" in Mississippi, negro voters, death of Henry Blackburn (former postmaster at Brookhaven, Mississippi) in Copiah County, editorial in The Republican, "revolution in the cotton fields of the South," Republicans, Senator [Blanche K.] Bruce's successor
b1f95 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada to E.D. Clark, 1 July 1880 (2 pages)
Scope: [L.Q.C.] Lamar, answers to newspaper questions, Silver bill, "right of instruction."
b1f96 Photocopy of handwritten letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, Mississippi to E.D. Clark, 3 January 1880 (6 pages)
Scope: answers to newspaper questions, [L.Q.C.] Lamar, "right of instruction," Silver bill, Bayard resolution
b1f97 Envelope addressed to E.D. Clark in Vicksburg, Mississippi and postmarked 18 April 1881 from Grenada, Mississippi, 18 April 1881
b1f98 Photocopy of letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, Mississippi to E.D. Clark, 6 March 1880 (3 pages)
Scope: financial help for "Cooper," Col. [L.Q.C.] Lamar
b1f99 Photocopy of pamphlet "First Reunion Grand Camp Confederate Veterans of Mississippi, Meridian, October 14th 1890", 1890 (4 pages)
Scope: E.C. Walthall is listed in the program as "Grand Commander"
b1f100 Photocopy of newspaper clipping "Gen'l Walthall's Address", June 1891 (4 pages)
Scope: Walthall's speech at the unveiling of the Confederate monument in Jackson, Mississippi on 3 June 1891
b1f101 Photocopy of letter from E.C. Walthall in Grenada, Mississippi to Kate Walthall Freeman in New York, New York, 4 June 1893 (3 pages)
Scope: travel plans to New York and Richmond, Jefferson Davis's burial in Richmond
b1f102 Fragment of City of New York note, Undated
b1f103 Typed letter from Annie B[ooth] McKinney in Knoxville, Tennessee to Cary Freeman Clark in New York, New York, 31 January 1902 (4 pages and 1 envelope)
Scope: drama produced, Maude Hoffman, Mistress Joy: A Tale of Natchez in 1798, trip to Charleston with the International League of Press Clubs, Charles W. Buck, Kate's art
b1f104 Envelope addressed to Cary A. Freeman in Holly Springs, Mississippi and postmarked from Vicksburg, Mississippi , Undated
b1f105 Handwritten contract by Hugh Beaty to stucco and plaster E.C. Wilkinson's house near Holly Springs, Mississippi, Undated
b1f106 Handwritten memorandum on improper acknowledgement of DeSoto County deed, Undated
b1f107 Handwritten receipt of payment by Patrick Bradley to Wilkinson & Niles, Undated
b1f108 Handwritten account statement of E.C. Wilkinson with Beaty & Swan, Undated
Scope: construction material
b1f109 Handwritten memorandum with legal description of Holly Springs, Mississippi property, Undated
b1f110 Hand drawn diagram of a building plan, Undated
b1f111 Handwritten receipt for John R. Campbell regarding E.C. Wilkinson, Undated
b1f112 Handwritten calculations regarding Beaty & Swan, Undated
b1f113 Handwritten account statement of B.Walthall purchases, Undated
Scope: ax handle, curtains, hoe handle, rake, grinding
b1f114 Handwritten calculations regarding B.W. Walthall and E.C. Wilkinson's taxes, Undated
b1f115 Handwritten memorandum regarding bonds to police and mayor for property, Undated
b1f116 Envelope addressed to E.D. Clark in Vicksburg, Mississippi and postmarked Grenada, Mississippi, Undated
Newspaper clippings, 1870-1896, Undated
Scope: Senator E.C. Walthall
b1f117 "Senator Walthall Addressed a Large Audience at City Hall.  Greatest Living Mississippian: Every Word of Which Found a Lodgement in the Hearts of Those Who Heard It: The Silver Question Discussed and Reasons Given for the Faith That Is in Him" Meridian Daily Herald, 20 October 1896
Scope: E.C. Walthall's speech at City Hall in Meridian on silver coinage, Walthall Camp of Confederate Veterans
b1f117 "Senator Walthall's Meridian Speech: A Magnificent Presentation of the Issue of the Day.  Mississippi's Distinguished Son Listened to by a Large Gathering" , 20 October 1896
Scope: silver coinage
b1f117 "Gen. E.C. Walthall: Who Will Address the People Tonight on the Greatest Question of Rational Disputation Since 1860", [1895]
Scope: Walthall, coinage issue
b1f117 "Words of a Patriot: Walthall's Speech at Chickamauga: It Is Chaste and Ornate and Speaks for the Southern Soldier of Which Its Author Is a Typification.  It Will Repay Reading", 28 September 1895
Scope: war, reconciliation
b1f117 "Gen. E.C. Walthall: Tendered a Grand Reception Today -- Will Speak at City Hall Tonight" Meridian Daily Herald, [1895]
Scope: reception by resident members of Walthall's brigade, speech at City Hall
b1f117 "Meridian is honored in the visit of General E.C. Walthall...", [1895]
Scope: Walthall's speech at City Hall
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall's Letter" Jackson Daily Clarion-Ledger , 28 May 1894
Scope: party division among Democrats over financial issues
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall's Resignation" Appeal-Avalan[che], 19 January 1894
b1f117 "In the Senate: Senator Vest Discusses the Federal Election Bill", January [1894]
Scope: Walthall's resignation
b1f117 "Steps from the Senate: Gen. Walthall Has Resigned" [App]eal-Avala[nche], 19 January 1894
b1f117 "Senator Walthall Resigns His Seat in the United States Senate", January [1894]
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall Declines a Re-election", [January 1894]
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall To Retire" New Orleans Daily Picayune, 19 January [1894]
b1f117 "Many Prominent Names Mentioned for the Vacancy Caused by Senator Walthall's Resignation" New Orleans Daily Picayune, 19 January 1894
b1f117 "Walthall Wins: Renominated for United States Senator by Acclamation" New Orleans Daily Picayune, 14 January [1894]
b1f117 "Brigadiers in Togas: With Colonels and Even Privates Representing the Southern States: Soldiers of the Senate" Washington Post, 21 January 1894
b1f117 "Walthall on Lamar: A Great Tribute to One of the Country's Greatest Men" Jackson Clarion-Ledger, 22 March 1893
Scope: Walthall's memorial tribute of L.Q.C. Lamar in the Supreme Court chambers
b1f117 "A True and Sublime Tribute by Senator Walthall, to Justice Lamar" Grenada Sentinel, 1 April 1893
Scope: Walthall's memorial tribute of L.Q.C. Lamar
b1f117 "Walthall at Winona: He Makes One of the Grandest Speeches Ever Heard" Daily State Ledger, 10 October 1892 (2 copies.)
Scope: farmers movement, Republican Party, McKinley bill on tariffs, silver coinage, presidential candidacy of Weaver, Force Bill
b1f117 "A Blaze of Glory! Democracy in Unbounded Enthusiasm! Magnificent Orations and a Great Spectacular Demonstration.  Senator Walthall, Hon. John M. Allen and Other Distinguished Orators", October 1892
Scope: forthcoming Democratic rally in Grenada on 26 October 1892
b1f117 "Unveiled (continued from first page)" Memphis Commercial, 4 June 1891
Scope: Walthall address at the dedication of the Confederate monument in Jackson, Mississippi
b1f117 "Gen. E.C. Walthall" & "'We Are Democrats': Some Strong Alliance Talk from Carroll County" Choctaw County Mississippi Review, 16 April 1891
Scope: portrait and physical description of Walthall; farmers alliance movement in Carroll County, senators George & Walthall on alliance issues
b1f117 "But One Walthall" , circa 1890s
Scope: Walthall declining to become a candidate for reelection
b1f117 "Who Shall Succeed Walthall?" Natchez Daily Democrat, 15 March 1891
b1f117 "Senator Walthall" Natchez Daily Democrat, 14 March 1891
Scope: retirement of Walthall
b1f117 "Magnetic Walthall: The 'Boston Herald' Reviews His Great Speech" Tate County Record , 2 January 1891
Scope: Walthall speech on the federal election bill, black voters, race relations
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall's speech was well composed..." Jackson Daily Clarion-Ledger, 5 June 1891
b1f117 "Senator Walthall and the Convention" Natchez Daily Democrat, 29 October 1890
b1f117 "Veterans at Meridian: Grand Reunion of the Old Mississippi Boys" Birmingham Age-Herald, 15 October 1890
Scope: Walthall presence at confederate veterans reunion in Meridian, Mississippi
b1f117 "Afternoon Session of the Camp" Meridian News, 15 October 1890
Scope: Grand Camp of Confederate Veterans of Mississippi; Walthall declining reelection as Grand Commander
b1f117 "Senators Beck and Walthall" New York World, Circa 1890
Scope: election of Walthall to the Senate
b1f117 "Edward Cary Walthall" Sardis Southern Reporter, 16 March 1888
Scope: biographical account
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall" & "An Eloquent Tribute to a Splendid Character" & "A Characteristic Reply", 1880
Scope: Walthall withdrawing from Senate contest; L.Q.C. Lamar; Walthall as candidate for Supreme Court
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall's Letter", January 1880
Scope: Walthall withdrawing from Senate contest
b1f117 "Gen. Walthall's Letter", [1880]
Scope: Walthall withdrawing from Senate contest
b1f117 "The curiosity seeker of the Lauderdale Review...", [1880]
Scope: Vicksburg Commercial support for Walthall during caucus
b1f117 "These have been many spiteful slings at Senator Lamar...", [1880]
Scope: L.Q.C. Lamar, J.Z. George election, Walthall
b1f117 "Our Letter", [1880]
Scope: election of J.Z. George as U.S. Senator, Walthall
b1f117 "Letter from Gen. Walthall" Jackson Clarion, 14 January 1880
Scope: Walthall response to questions by the Vicksburg Daily Commercial on coinage issue, direct instruction of senators, and conduct of L.Q.C. Lamar
b1f117 "Resolutions of the Grenada Bar on the Death of Judges J.C. Gray and T.J. Walton" , 4 March 1879
Scope: Walthall appointed to Grenada Bar committee to draft a resolution memorializing Judges J.C. Gray and T.J. Walton
b1f117 "The Jackson Railroad: Proceedings upon Application for a Receiver" Daily Picayune, 11 March 1870
Scope: Walthall representing the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern Railroad Company against the Illinois Central Railroad Company
Newspaper Clippings, 1863-1924, Undated
Scope: Senator E.C. Walthall, family, & miscellaneous
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall: Mississippi's Able Senator Enlightens the People of Natchez", Undated
Scope: national monetary policy
b1f118 "When the Herald finds a man whose ambition is satisfied...", Undated
Scope: Walthall as candidate for national office
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall in Sardis: He Makes a Great Speech at the Court-house", Undated
Scope: national monetary policy
b1f118 "A Big Day in Grenada: Senator Walthall's Magic Powers before the Public", Undated
Scope: agriculture, tariff, Force Bill, third party in upcoming election
b1f118 "Senator Walthall" Sardis, Undated
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall.  Mississippi's Able and Beloved Senator Enlightens the People of Natchez" Grenada Sentinel, 10 October 1896
Scope: national monetary policy
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall and the Senatorship" Vicksburg, 1879
Scope: Walthall as candidate for U.S. Senate
b1f118 "Senator E.C. Walthall's Speech Delivered at Byhalia, Miss. Yesterday.  Touching Allusions to His Early Days -- President Cleveland and the Public Interests" Byhalia, Undated
b1f118 Edgar S. Wilson, "Senator Edward Carey Walthall" Memphis Commercial Appeal, Section I, page 10, 20 April 1924
Scope: biographical account
b1f118 "Walthall's Re-election Assured" , Undated
b1f118 "Politics down in Mississippi: Senator Walthall Will Resume His Seat in the Senate" Memphis Commercial Appeal, Undated
b1f118 "Senator Walthall of Mississippi Dead" San Francisco Chronicle, 22 April 1898
b1f118 "Wm. R. Barksdale.  Remarks Made by General E.C. Walthall in Presenting to the Chancery Court of Grenada County the Resolutions of the Bar on the Death of W.R. Barksdale" Grenada Sentinel, Undated
b1f118 "Hood's Campaign.  The Battles of Franklin and Nashville and the Retreat to Columbia -- Correct Story of the Rear Guard's Services.  What Gen. Walthall Accomplished." , Undated
Scope: conclusion of Major Sanders' paper on the Civil War before the Southern Historical Society of Louisville
b1f118 "Senator Walthall has left Washington...", Undated
Scope: popularity of Walthall in Senate
b1f118 "A Great Eulogy" & "Walthall on Lamar" Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, 1893
Scope: death of L.Q.C. Lamar
b1f118 "Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, is one of the few early rising Senators..." New York Semi Weekly Tribune, Undated
Scope: Walthall & L.Q.C. Lamar
b1f118 "The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ross, of Grenada...", Undated
Scope: death of two-year-old Edward Walthall Ross, grandson of Walthall
b1f118 "There was a curious paragraph in Senator Walthall's oration at the Jefferson Davis monument unveiling..." , Undated
Scope: Walthall's criticism of influx of Northerners into the South and Northern influence on the South
b1f118 "Senator Walthall at Chickamauga" , Undated
Scope: remarks of Walthall at dedication of Chickamauga Park
b1f118 "An Ex-Confederate Goes to the Unveiling at Jackson and Gets More than His Share" , Undated
Scope: Walthall's address at the dedication of the Confederate Memorial in Jackson, Mississippi
b1f118 "Senator Walthall's Letter of Declension", 1891
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 "More Press Comments on Senator Walthall's Letter", [1891]
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 "The Natchez Democrat is very anxious to get Senator Walthall to announce himself a candidate for re-election...", [1891]
b1f118 "Senator Walthall's Declination", [1891]
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 "Senator Walthall Declines to Become a Candidate for United States Senator", [1891]
b1f118 "Press Opinions in and out of the State on Senator Walthall's Letter of Declination", [1891]
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 John J. Hood, "Gen. E.C. Walthall" Meridian Herald, Undated
Scope: Walthall's character & Civil War record
b1f118 "Some Men Who Wore the Gray: Longstreet the Chief of the Living Generals" New York Times, 1893
Scope: includes description of Walthall
b1f118 "Gen. Edward C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: biographical account and character
b1f118 "To Succeed Lamar.  General Walthall Appointed United States Senator from Mississippi", 1885
b1f118 "Senator Walthall", 1885
Scope: Walthall's appointment to Senate
b1f118 "Mississippi's New Senator", 1885
Scope: Walthall's appointment to the Senate
b1f118 "Memorial Day at Port Gibson. Senator Walthall's Address", Undated
b1f118 "Reception of Gen'l. Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall's reception in Grenada following his return from the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall.  Soldier and Statesman", Undated
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 "Walthall's Oration", Undated
Scope: Walthall speech in Jackson, Mississippi on the Civil War
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall's Magnificent Address", Undated
Scope: Walthall's speech in Lexington on agriculture and third parties
b1f118 "General Walthall on the National Nominations, and What He Thinks of the Outlook", Undated
Scope: Democratic National Convention nomination of General Hancock
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall is Mississippi's choice for vice-president...", Undated
b1f118 "General Walthall's Disappointment", Undated
Scope: Walthall's absence from confederate veteran reunion in Lexington
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall's reelection to Senate
b1f118 "Who Shall Succeed Walthall?" , Undated
b1f118 "Walthall and Evarts" Southern, Undated
Scope: Senator W.W. Evarts (New York) and Walthall on Senate floor debating the Mississippi Constitution
b1f118 "Walthall the Leader.  The Recent Fight over the Force Bill", Undated
b1f118 "Walthall for President" [Jackson Clarion Ledger], Undated
Scope: Walthall as presidential candidate for 1896
b1f118 "That Senatorial 'Combination'", Undated
Scope: candidates to defeat Walthall & J.Z. George in Senate reelection
b1f118 "A Genuine Statesman", Undated
Scope: Walthall
b1f118 "The Chastened Senate", Undated
Scope: German reparations
b1f118 "Senate Hale as a Militiaman.  He Was Then a Pale Youth, But He Quelled the Riot", Undated
Scope: U.S. Senator Eugene Hale (Maine) and an 1862 riot in Prospect, Maine
b1f118 "Welcome Home to General Walthall on His Arrival at Grenada, Mississippi -- The People, One and All, Combine", Undated
Scope: Walthall upon return from Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati
b1f118 "The Senatorial Fight.  The Complicated Situation Existing in Mississippi.  Senator Walthall's Popularity with All Classes" Commercial-Memphis Daily, Undated
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall at the Capital" Memphis, Undated
Scope: national monetary policy, presidential election
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall.  Soldier and Statesman", Undated
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to Senate
b1f118 "A Political Acrostic", Undated
Scope: acrostic on "Walthall."
b1f118 "Walthall at Chickamauga" Washington Post, Undated
Scope: Walthall speech at dedication of Chickamauga National Park
b1f118 "Senator Walthall's speech on the federal elections bill...", Undated
b1f118 "Crosses Presdented", Undated
Scope: presentation of Crosses of Honor to confederate veterans by the Holly Springs Edward Cary Walthall Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy
b1f118 "Walthall Declines", Undated
Scope: Walthall declining reelection to the Senate.
b1f118 "The New Mississippian on Walthall", Undated
b1f118 "About Senator Walthall.  The Carrollton Democrat Wants Him to Remain Where He Is", Undated
Scope: Walthall as potential candidate for governor
b1f118 "Boies and Walthall", Undated
Scope: Boies and Walthall as prospective nominees of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
b1f118 "The Speaking Last Saturday" , Undated
Scope: Walthall's speech at Coffeeville on Hancock, national monetary policy
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall Routs Amacker", Undated
Scope: Walthall debating "Brother Amacker" in Grenada on national monetary policy
b1f118 "Walthall at Oxford.  Mississippi's Soldier and Statesman Wins Additional Laurels", Undated
Scope: speech of Walthall at dedication reunion of United Confederate Veterans in Oxford
b1f118 "Mississippi Democracy.  Senator Walthall Indorsed for Vice-President" Holly Springs, Undated
b1f118 "A Card from Gen. E.C. Walthall", April 1877
Scope: letter from Walthall to the editor of the Grenada Sentinel rejecting a gubernatorial candidacy
b1f118 "Personal", Undated
Scope: Walthall at the Battle of Nashville during the Civil War
b1f118 "A Powerful, Logical and Convincing Speech by Mississippi's Illustrious Statesman, Senator E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall speech in Winona on agriculture, the McKinley bill, and national monetary policy
b1f118 "Walthall at Walthall.  A Soldier's Tribute to a Soldier", Undated
Scope: Walthall speech at Walthall on General Hancock
b1f118 "Senator E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: successor for Walthall's Senate seat
b1f118 "Gen'l Walthall's Grand Reception in the Town of Walthall" & "A Soldiers Tribute to a Soldier" Grenada Sentinel, Undated
Scope: veterans of the 15th Mississippi regiment, General Hancock as presidential candidate
b1f118 "Walthall the Leader.  The Recent Fight over the Force Bill", Undated
b1f118 "Senator Walthall may felicitate himself upon the address he delivered yesterday in Jackson...", Undated
Scope: Walthall's speech at the dedication of the Confederate Memorial in Jackson, Mississippi
b1f118 "Resolved, That inasmuch as the Democrats of Mississippi...", Undated
Scope: Mississippi delegates to the Democratic National Convention (includes Walthall)
b1f118 "Gen. E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall as candidate for Senate
b1f118 "The Mississippi Campaign", Undated
Scope: Walthall in fight against Populist Party
b1f118 "Testimonial to Major Gen. Walthall", Undated
Scope: gift of horse to Walthall by J. Lewis of Atlanta
b1f118 "The following beautiful tribute to the character and services of Senator Walthall...", Undated
Scope: resignation of Walthall
b1f118 "The two Senators from Mississippi have gained fresh laurels on their speeches anent the force bill...", Undated
Scope: Walthall & J.Z. George
b1f118 "Vincit Armor Patriae", Undated
Scope: Walthall as candidate for Senate
b1f118 "A Tribute to Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall as Civil War soldier and post-war statesman
b1f118 "A Mississippi Chevalier. Senator Walthall Is so Denominated by a Correspondent.", Undated
Scope: physical and character description of Walthall
b1f118 "Our New Senator", Undated
Scope: Walthall
b1f118 "Missionary Ridge.  Walthall's Brigade in This Great Battle of the Civil War"  Jackson Clarion, Undated
Scope: Walthall's appointment as member of the Mississippi Commission to locate battle lines around Chattanooga for park
b1f118 "Senator Walthall's Speech, before the Noxubee County Fair Association at Macon" , Undated
Scope: agriculture, taxation, tariff system, race relations, disfranchisement, white immigration
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall Speaks for Himself", February 1885
Scope: Walthall letter to the editor
b1f118 "Gen. Walthall's Letter", February 1885
Scope: Harrison not a candidate for governor
b1f118 "Walthall and Shands: Their Speeches Have a Telling Effect.  The Democracy of Tippah Fully Aroused." [Ripley] Sentinel, 28 October 1886
Scope: Walthall's Brigade in the Civil War, candidacy for Senate, Thomas Spight, Lieutenant  Governor G.D. Shands
b1f118 "One of the noticeable features of Mr. Walthall's speech was his citation of facts..." , July 1891
Scope: Mississippi blacks
b1f118 "Mrs. Walthall" Washington DC Evening Star, 28 December 1889
Scope: Mrs. Walthall and Miss Courtney Walthall
b1f118 "Personal Reminiscence", Undated
Scope: Walthall immediately after the Civil War
b1f118 "The Battle -- Participation of Liddell's Division" , 1863
Scope: participant's accounts in the Battle of Chickamauga, Walthall's Brigade
b1f118 "Hon. E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: Walthall address at the State House, opposition to state constitutional convention
b1f118 "The Mississippi Plan" & "Gen. Walthall as a Member of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs.  Appointed, Too, by John Sherman, the Loudest of Bloody-Shirt Shriekers.", Undated
Scope: Mississippi senatorial elections, Walthall's appointment to the Senate Committee on Military Affairs
b1f118 "The Federal Senators from Mississippi", Undated
Scope: senatorial elections in Mississippi under new state constitution
b1f118 "Walthall on the Old South", 1887
b1f118 "Senator E.C. Walthall", Undated
Scope: engraved image of Walthall
b1f118 "Juvenile Agassiz Association.  A Delightful Evening at Mrs. Nixon's Institute.", Undated
Scope: youth meeting of the Plant Committee of the Henry M. Straight Memorial Chapter of the Agassiz Association, "Master Ben Walthall, president of the chapter."
b1f118 "Miss Courtnay Walthall" Washington Post , 1 December 1889
b1f118 "We clip the following from the Times-Democrat of Sunday...", Undated
Scope: Miss Courtenay Walthall
b1f118 "Pleased with Lamar.  No Member of the Cabinet Esteemed More by the President.", Undated
Scope: L.Q.C. Lamar as Secretary of the Interior
b1f118 "Walthall at Chickamauga" & "Gen. Walthall's Address.  A Notable Address at the Chickamauga Dedicatory Exercises." Washington Post, 1 October 1895
b1f118 "Drawing-Room Crush: Mrs. and Miss Walthall Entertain a Great Throng of Callers.", Undated