Arkansas

Scope and Contents This small collection comprises two manuscript documents detailing the estate of Catherine (Katherine) Ward, created by her son and executor, Pleasant Ward, in Union County, Arkansas. The first document, dated August 10, 1858, is an official inventory listing ten enslaved individuals by name, age, gender, and appraised value. The second document, dated January 24, 1859, includes a final estate settlement that reconfirms the names and valuations of the enslaved people and records the transfer...

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Typed transcripts of correspondence written by the extended Garner family between 1832 and 1886.

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Hempstead County, Arkanasas court documents concerning appraisals of estates and charges against estates. The collection also includes guardianship of minors papers, 1823-1827.

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This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.

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Sheldon C. Treat was a Union soldier in the US Civil War as part of the Fourth Iowa Infantry. This collection includes twenty-one letters he wrote to his family in New England, most of them sent in 1862-1863 during his war service. It also contains a letter from his commanding officer, and a short biographical document.

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Typescript copies of legal and financial documents filed in Arkansas between 1848 and 1873, as well as typescript copies of letters, diaries, and military service accounts written primarily by Confederate soldiers. The legal documents are mainly deeds of conveyance, tax records, and deeds for swampland.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a handwritten speech by Reverend V. M. Townsend entitled "The Negroes Are God’s Modern Israel,” delivered in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, shortly after the end of World War I in 1918. The address praises the courage and patriotism of Black soldiers, drawing parallels between them and the Biblical Israelites. He stresses African Americans' role in key victories, specifically the Battle of Chateau-Thierry, stating that they fought and died so others might experience the...

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One political campaign broadside in support of J. William Fulbright during the 1945 United States Senate race against Homer Adkins in Arkansas. The broadside was created by Pulaski County Friends of Bill Fulbright for U.S. Senator and is titled, "This is a response to Adkins' Campaign of Hate." The broadside details Adkins' racial prejudice and Fulbright's opposition to it, as well as other key issues Fulbright supported.