This Subject Guide is a selected list of primary and secondary sources related to Mississippians at war and/or works by Mississippians about warfare (excluding the Civil War which has its own subject guide).
Mary Moore Allen, Origin of Names of Army and Air Corps Posts, Camps, and Stations in World War II in Mississippi (Goldsboro, NC: n.d.). Call number: UA280 A4.
Army Air Forces Specialized Flying School Jackson Army Air Base, Jackson, Mississippi. Call number: UG634.5 J3 J33 1944.
Carey E. Ashcraft, Country Boy Infantry "The Blue Devils" 88th Infantry Division 1944-1945 (Yellow Springs, OH: Keahey Graphics, c. 1997). Recollections of a Columbus, Mississippi native captured by enemy soldiers in Italy during World War II. Call number: D811 A84 1997.
Horace L. Baker, Argonne Days: Experiences of a World War Private on the Meuse-Argonne Front Compiled from his Diary (Aberdeen, MS: Aberdeen Weekly, 1927). Born in Greenwood Springs, Mississippi, Baker served in the 32nd Division of the U.S. Army during World War I. Call Number: D570.9 B23.
John W. Baxter, The World War II Experiences of John W. Baxter (Los Altos, CA: c. 1985). Baxter worked at the Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Call Number: D811.5 B29 1985.
Sandra K. Behel, "The Mississippi Home Front During World War II" (Ph.D. Dissertation; Mississippi State University, 1989). Call number: D769.85 M7 B43 1989a.
Theodore G. Bilbo. Prohibition of Liquor Traffic and Vice Near Military Camps: Speech in the Senate of the United States, March 12, 1942. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1942. Call Number: U22 B55 1942.
G.P. Birdsong, Stormy Weather, A B-17, and the Royal Air Force Affair, the Delta Rebel No. 2 (Pleasanton, CA: Hambleden Publishing, 1988). Account by a B-17 pilot and native Mississippian of his crew's service in the European Theater during World War II. Call number: UG1242 B6 B5738 1988.
Mrs. Calvin S. Brown, Lafayette County, Mississippi in the World War, 1917-1918 A.D. (1926). Contains the service records of soldiers from Lafayette County, including those who enlisted elsewhere or who served with the YMCA. Includes brief accounts of the University of Mississippi during World War I, the local Red Cross chapters, and other civilian activities in the county. Call number: D570.85 M71 L3 1926.
Raymond Leslie Buell, Agriculture in the Post-War Economy; Abstract of Address by Raymond Leslie Buell, Round Table Editor of Fortune Magazine, at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Delta Council, Cleveland, Mississippi, May 30, 1941 (N.P., 1941). Call number: HC106 B8 A3.
Charlotte Capers, A Descriptive Guide to the War Memorial Building, Jackson, Mississippi (Jackson, MS: 1943). Call number: NA9350 M7 J3.
Carroll Case, The Slaughter: An American Atrocity (Ashville, NC: FBC Inc., 1998). An historical account of the mass killing of African-American soldiers at Camp Van Dorn in Mississippi during World War II. Call number: PS3553 A7925 S57 1998.
Joseph E. Chance, Jefferson Davis' Mexican War Regiment (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991). Davis led the First Mississippi Regiment. Call number: E409.5 M56 C47 1991.
George L. Cobb, "Mississippi Volunteers: Forward March!" (Boston: Walter Jacobs, c. 1917). World War I sheet music for voice and piano. Call number: M1646 C62 M5 1917
David L. Cohn, This is the Story (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947). The impressions of Greenville, Mississippi native David L. Cohn on his 1944-45 tour of Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Call number: D811.5 C63.
David Howard Coleman and Sue Coleman Wiles Ward, "On the Beam": West Point-Clay County, Mississippi, 1941-1945" (S.C.W. Ward, c. 1985). Call number: F347 C6 C64 1985.
Columbus Army Flying School, Columbus, Mississippi: Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center (Houston, TX: E.M. Berry, c. 1942). Call number: TL 713 C65 C65 1942.
Richard Conway, Democracy's Soldiers: Mississippians and Wars in the Twentieth Century (Mississippi Oral History Program, c. 2003). Includes a CD-ROM with oral histories. Call number: F341 C66 2002.
J.C. Coovert, Historical Sketch and Scenes of Camp Life of the Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, Commanded by Colonel W.A. Montgomery (Vicksburg, MS: J.C. Coovert, 1898). Test and photographs of training camp and soldiers who volunteered and served with the Second Regiment of the Mississippi Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish American War. Call number: UA 284 2 nd U55 1898.
W.M. Cox, What of the Times?: An Address by Judge W.M. Cox, LL. D. , Baldwyn, Mississippi. Delivered before Group One, Mississippi Bankers Association Meeting at New Albany, December 7, 1938 (N.p., n.d.) Discussion on the current European crisis. Call number: D743.9 C6.
Andy Crawford, Mules Go to War: A Tale of Floating Barns on the High Seas during World War II (Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel, 1979). A Mississippian who served as Port Veterinarian in New Orleans during 1942, overseeing the transportation of mules for use in Burma, China and Italy to carry supplies in rugged terrain. Call number: D810 T8 C7.
Jefferson Davis, The Address of the Mexican War and Its Results as Delivered by the Hon. Jefferson Davis before the Louisiana Associated Veterans of the Mexican War at Exposition Hall, New Orleans, Tuesday, March 7, 1876 (n.p., 1976). Call number: E415 D26 1876.
James Dickerson, Dixie's Dirty Secret: The True Story of How the Government, the Media, and the Mob Conspired to Combat Integration and the Vietnam Anti-War Movement (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, c. 1998). Call number: E185.93 M6 D54 1998.
The Eagle's G.I. Issue (Oxford, MS: Oxford Eagle, December 9, 1943). A special edition of the Oxford Eagle devoted to Lafayette County's service men in World War II. Call number: D 769 E24 1943.
Henry S. Foote, The War With Mexico: Speech of Hon. Henry S. Foote of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, January 19 & 20, 1848 ([Washington, D.C.]: Congressional Globe Office, 1848). Call number: E407 F6.
Robert Burwell Fulton, Address by R.B. Fulton before the Alumni of the University of Mississippi at the Unveiling of the Memorial to Those Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Great War, and at the Semicentennial of the Class of 1869 (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1919). Call number: LD 3412.45 F8.
Robert Burwell Fulton, In Memoriam, Robert Burwell Fulton and the University of Mississippi Men Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the World War: Address Delivered at the University of Mississippi, June 16, 1919 (University, MS: 1919). Call number: LD 3412.7 I5555 1919.
The Gadget: United States Naval Training Camp, Gulfport, Mississippi. For the Benefit of the Athletic Association (Gadget Staff, 1918). Call number: V434 G8 G2 1918.
Tyrus C. Gibbs. Chronicles of Tyrus C. Gibbs Sr.: The War Years, World War II (199-). Gibbs was a U.S. Air Force pilot during World War II. Shot down over Belgium, he became a prisoner-of-war. Call Number: D805 G3 D533 1990z.
Kenneth K. Gowen, Granddaddy, Tell Us About the War (Oxford, Ms: Kay-Dot Publishing, 1998). A native of Enid, Mississippi, Gowen served in the 69th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in the North African and European campaigns of World War II. Call number: D756 G63 1998.
Greenwood Army Air Field, Greenwood, Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1943). Call number: UG634.5 G7 G7.
Charles F. Heartman, There Must Be No Germany After this War: Let Us Forget Most Peace Plans, Opinions of a German American (Hattiesburg, MS: Book Farm, 1942). Call number: D816.5 H27.
Rudolf Heberle and Dudley S. Hall, New Americans: A Study of Displaced Persons in Louisiana and Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Displaced Persons Commission, 1951). An analysis of foreign refugees from World War II. Call number: F380 F6 H4.
Historical and Pictorial Review 43rd Infantry Division, Camp Shelby, Mississippi 1942 (Baton Rouge, LA: Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1941). Call number: U294.5 S3 H57 1942.
Historical and Pictorial Review, Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi 1944 (Baton Rouge, LA: Army and Navy Publishing Company of Louisiana, 1944). Text and photographs of the 518th Quartermaster Group. Call number: F349 C34 H57 1944.
History of the First Battle Group 155th Infantry (N.p.: c. 1953). Three page history of regiment's participation in various wars. Call number: UA 284 155th H5.
Jeremiah Henry Holleman, An Unbroken Chain: Memoirs (Columbus, MS: n.p., 1997). The author served with the 8055th MASH unit in Korea. Call number: R154 H65 1997.
Carl Milner Holloway, Happy the POW: A Short Story about a Long Ordeal (Brandon, MS: Quail Ridge Press, 1981). A Pearl River County, Mississippi native who served in the Marine Corps during both World War II and Korea. Holloway focuses on the defense of the Philippines and forty months of captivity in Japanese prison camps. Call number: D811 H55 1981.
W. Stanley Hoole, ed., And Still We Conquer! The Diary of a Nazi Unteroffizier in the German Africa Corps Who Was Captured by the United States Army, May 9, 1943 and Imprisoned at Camp Shelby, Mississippi (University, AL: Confederate Publishing Co., 1968). Call number: D 805 U5 H6.
H. Grady Howell, Jr., A Southern Lacrimosa: The Mexican War Journal of Dr. Thomas Neely Love, Surgeon, Second Regiment Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A. (Chickasaw Bayou Press, 1995). Call number: E411 L6 1995.
Jesse J. Johnson, Ebony Brass: An Autobiography of Negro Frustration Amid Aspiration (New York: William-Frederick Press, 1967). Memoir of a Hattiesburg, Mississippi native who entered the Army as a private in 1942 and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1962. Call number: U53 J6 A3.
Keesler Field, Mississippi (San Antonio, TX: Universal Press, c. 1942). Call number: F349 B5 K44 1942.
R. van der Laan, ed., Royal Netherlands Flying School in the United States of America (New York: E.W. Smith Company, 1943). This base was located in Jackson, Mississippi. Call number: UG635 N4 L33 1943.
Fonnie Black Ladd, The Wholesale Rescue (Charleston, MS: Valley Farm Publications, 1984). A native of Charleston, Mississippi, Ladd tells the story of his service as a marine on Funafuti Island, the staging area for the assault on Tarawa in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Call number: D773 L33 1986.
Lafayette County, Mississippi Honor Roll of Men and Women Serving in the Armed Forces of the United States of America (Oxford, MS: Oxford Eagle, 1944). Call number: U52 L3.
Ken Lawrence, What Are You Being Drafted For? Thirty Years of Selective Service Racism (Jackson, MS: Anti-Repression Resource Team, 1981). Racism in the draft. Call number: UB 344 M7 L39 1981.
Lieutenant Edward Lee Pentecost, 13th Field Artillery, A.E.F. (Greenwood, MS: Lawrence Printing Company, c. 1919). Memorial of a Sidon, Mississippi native who fought and died in Europe during World War I. Includes transcriptions of his letters and a history of his unit, the 13th Field Artillery, 3rd Battalion. Call number: D640 P45.
List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Musicians & Privates, of the First Regiment Mississippi Riflemen, in the War with Mexico, to Serve Twelve Months, Date of Enlistment, June 1846 (Jackson, MS: William W. Yerby, 1846). Broadside. Call number E409.5 M7 L5.
Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith, eds., Dear Boys: World War II Letters from a Woman Back Home (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991). A collection of letters from "Dear Boys" a Bolivar County, Mississippi news column written by Mrs. Keith Frazier Somerville during the 1940s. Somerville's letters captured the life of the Mississippi Delta in wartime and helped sustain the morale of soldiers overseas. The letters touch on local news, the roles played by women on the homefront, race relations, and Nazi atrocities. Call number: D769 M71 B657 1991.
Sarah Lucas Loggins, Military Annals of Leflore County, Mississippi Battery C, 140th Field Artillery World War I (Greenwood, MS: Baff Printing, 1969). Contains a history of Battery C as well as the individuals who belonged to it. Call number: D570.32 140th L6.
Mark Lowry, Bethel in Battle: A Chaplain's Sketch Book
(Columbia, MS: Columbia Press, 1947). Account of a Mississippi army
chaplain's military service during World War II. Call Number: D744.4 L6.
Paul David Magriel, Art and the Soldier (Biloxi, MS: Special Service, Keesler Field, 1943). Call number: N6512 M25.
Edward L. Maier, III, "Behind the Barbed Wire: German Prisoners of War in Mississippi, 1943-1946" (M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1993).
James L. McCorkle, Jr., "From Neutrality to War: Mississippi, 1914-1917" (M.A. Thesis, University of Mississippi, 1962).
Dan McCullen, Lest We Forget: A POW Memoir of World War II (Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press, 1997). A Mississippi rifleman in Company L, 333rd Regiment, 84th Infantry Division who was taken prisoner by German forces in 1944. Call number: D805 G3 M428 1997.
Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1919). Born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1862, Meriwether served as a special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1916 to 1918. Call number: D640 M455.
The Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, War Record: The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and the World War (Nashville, TN: Brandon, c. 1920s). Covers the faculty, board, and students of Mississippi State University who participated in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I. Call number: UA39 M7.
Mississippi Casualties of the Vietnam War (Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives & History & Mississippi Historical Society, 1985). Call number: DS559 M57 1985.
Mississippi's Fighting Men: World War No. II (n.p., n.d.). Contains photographs as well as brief biographical data and service records of Mississippians who fought in World War II. Call number: D769.85 M7 M5.
Mississippi War Loan Organization, Mississippi Thrift News (March and April 1919). Call number: HG 7920 A1 M5.
Mobilization Plan: Military Training, Training for Women, Reorganization of Curriculum and Calendar, Expenses, Future Policy of the University, Call to Patrons, the Alumni, Opening of the Next Session, Conference Report of Advisory Commission of Council of National Defense. Jackson, MS: Tucker Printing House, 1917. Call number: LD3411.8 M63 1917.
Michael J. Mulvihill, First Mississippi Regiment- Its Foundation, Organization, and Record (Vicksburg, MS: Van Norman Printing Co., 1931). Call number: UA284 155th M8
N. Kenneth Nail, ed., Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth: A Collection of Stories by and about Young Men from Mississippi Who Served in the Eighth Air Force During World War II (Tupelo, MS: Mississippi Chapter of Eighth Air Force Historical Society, 1999). Call number: D792 M7 M58 1999.
A Photo Review of the 194th Infantry Division Prepared Under the Direction of Special Service Office, Camp McCain, Mississippi (n.p., c.1944). Includes division patch and newspaper clippings. Call number: UA284 94th U5 1944.
Frank James Price, Troy H. Middleton: A Biography (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974). Biography of a native Copiah County, Mississippian who was the youngest colonel in the American Expeditionary Force in France During World War I, and a commander of the Army's Forty-fifth Division and VIII Corps in Europe during World War II. Call number: U53 M5 P75.
The Reveille (Camp Shelby, MS). June 29, 1944 issue only. Call number: U294.5 S3 R49.
Thomas P. Reynolds, Belle of the Brawl: A Biographical Memoir of Walter Malone Baskin (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 1996). Contains typescripts of Baskin's correspondence to his parents in Greenville, Mississippi while a pilot in the 8th Air Force during World War II. Call number: D790 B355 1996.
T. Mitchell Robinson and Harold E. Gardinier, Invasion of Texas: First Mississippi Infantry (Jackson, MS: 1917). Concerns 1st Mississippi Infantry participation in the Mexican War, 1916-1917. Call number: D570.85 M7 R6255 1917.
Dunbar Rowland, Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898 (1908). Call number: F341 R867.
Eron Rowland, Andrew Jackson's Campaign Against the British, or the Mississippi Territory in the War of 1812, Concerning the Military Operations of the Americans, Creek Indians, British, and Spanish, 1813-1815 (New York: MacMillan Company, 1926). Call number: F341 R883.
William Russell, Berlin Embassy (New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1941). Raised in Tunica, Mississippi, Russell worked as a clerk in the US Embassy in Berlin from 1938 to 1940 where he processed emigration visas for German Jews. Call number: DD256 R8.
Seadust (Gulfport, MS: U.S. Naval Training Center). Special Collections has a May 1944 issue. Call Number: VA70 G85 S43.
William T. Schmidt, "The Impact of the Camp Shelby Mobilization on Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1940-1946" (M.A. Thesis: University of Southern Mississippi, 1978). Call number: F349 H36 S2.
Arthur C. Short, History of the American Legion, Department of Mississippi 1919-1943 (Vicksburg, MS: Mississippi Printing Company, 1943). Call number: D570 A12 M7.
Thomas U. Sisson, The Army Bill. Speech of Hon. Thomas U. Sisson of Mississippi in the House of Representatives Thursday, April 26, 1917 (Washington, D.C.: 1917). Call number: UB343 S5.
N. Christian Smoot, Pearl River County Veterans II (New York: Rivercross Publishing, c. 1992). Call number: E181 S58 1992.
Leon C. Standifer, Not In Vain: A Rifleman Remembers World War II (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana Stat University Press, 1992). Standifer grew up in Canton, Mississippi and served in King Company, 301st Infantry Regiment of the 94th Division, which fought in the European Theater. Call number: D 811 S763 1992.
Steven H. Stubbs, Neshoba At War: The Story of the Men and Women of Neshoba County in World War II (Philadelphia, MS: Dancing Rabbit Press, c. 2003). Call number: D769.85 M71 N477 2003.
Theodore Taylor, The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown (New York: Avon Books, 1998). Uncorrected proof. A native Mississippian, Brown was the Navy's first African-American pilot. He flew in the Korean War. Call number: V63 B75 T39 1998a.
Jacob Thompson, Increase of the Army: Speech of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1847 (Washington, D.C.: Blair & Rives, 1847). Concerns mobilization for the Mexican War. Call number: E409 T56 1847.
Curis Ulmer, Missisip Goes to War (Georgian Press, 1990). A native of Meridian, Mississippi, Ulmer served as a mortar gunner of the 406th Infantry in the European Theater during World War II. Call number: D756 U46 1990.
Paul Whitten, To Beulah and Back: The Right Place at the Right Time (Columbus, GA: Brentwood Christian Press, 1995). Memoir of a Choctaw County, Mississippi native who served in the Inspector's General Office of the 2nd Armored Division of the U.S. Army which saw service in North Africa and Europe during World War II. Call number: CT275 W56 T6 1995.
Richard Bruce Winders, "The Role of the Mississippi Volunteers in Northern Mexico: 1846-1848" (M.A. Thesis: University of Texas at Arlington, 1990). Call number: E409.5 M56 W55 1990b.
Wings Over America: Grenada Army Air Field, Grenada, Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Company, c. 1944). Call number: UG634 M7 G7.
Wings Over America: Jackson Army Air Base, Army Air Forces Southeast Training Center (Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Co., 1942). Call number: UG634 M7 J3.
Wings Over America: Keesler Field, Squadron B-1, Squadron B-2, Squadron B-3 (Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Co., c. 1942) Information about a Biloxi, Mississippi base. Call number: UG634 M7 K4.
World War II Memories (University, MS: University Museums, University of Mississippi, c. 2001). Call number: D811 A2 W619 2001.
James Yates, Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publications, 1989). Call number: E185.97 Y38 A3 1989.
Novels & Poetry
Calvin Baker, Once Two Heroes (New York: Viking, 2003). A novel about African-American World War II veterans in Mississippi. Call number PS3552 A3997 O53 2003.
William Edward Brougher, The Long Dark Road (n.p., 1946). A native Mississippian, Brougher was in command of the 11th Division of the Philippine Army. When Bataan fell, General Brougher spent three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp. This work is a collection of twelve poems that recount his experiences as a POW. Call number: PS3503 R758 L6.
Deborah Chiel, The War (New York: Jove Books, 1994). A novel set in Mississippi during the Vietnam War. Call number: PS3553 H485 W3 1994.
W.C. Falkner, The Siege of Monterey (Cincinnati: 1851). Epic poem set during the Mexican War. Written by a Mississippi author and the great-grandfather of William C. Faulkner. Call number: PS1654 F47 S5.
William Faulkner, A Fable (New York: Random House, 1954). Call number: PS3511 A86 F3 1966.
William Dabney Smith Gray, "This Land is My Land: Four Southern Writers Confront the Vietnam War" (Ph.D. Dissertation: University of Alabama, 1991). Call number: PS228 V5 G73 1991a.
Abraham J. Haddad, Victory and Other Memorial Poems in Honor of Our Boys (Jackson, MS: A.J. Haddad, 1946). Call number: PS3515 A18.
Bo Hathaway, A World of Hurt (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1981). First novel by a Biloxi, Mississippi native and veteran of the U.S. Special Forces. The novel is about two Green Berets fighting in Vietnam. Call number: PS3558 A738 W6 1981.
J.H. Ingraham, Freemantle; or, The Privateersman! A Nautical Romance of the Last War (Boston: George W. Redding & Co., [1845]). Call number: PS2048 I52 F7 1845.
J.H. Ingraham, The Texas Ranger; or, The Maid of Matamoras, a Tale of the Mexican War (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1846). Call number: PS2048 I52 T2 1846.
Frances Parkinson Keyes, Larry Vincent (London: Spottiswoode, 1953). Raised on a Mississippi plantation, the protagonist of the novel travels to France with his unit during World War I. Call number: PS3521 E66 L37 1953.
Ray Locke, Seldom Sung Songs (Santa Monica Roundtable Publishing, 1984). A novel about a Mississippi family brought together after the death of one of its members during the Korean War. Call number: PS3562 O228 S4 1984.
Moria McFather, "Echoes of the Western Front: Images of Trench Warfare in the Post-War Fiction of the West, Faulkner and Caldwell" (M.A. Thesis: Florida Atlantic University, 1992). Call number: PS3511 A86 Z8832 1992a.
Willie Morris, Taps (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001). A novel set in the Mississippi Delta during the Korean War. Call number: PS3563 O8745 T36 2001.
Elyse Singleton, This Side of the Sky (New York: Blue Hen Books, 2002). A novel set in Mississippi during World War II. Call number: PS3619 I575 T48 2002.
Lawrence Wells, Rommel and the Rebel (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986). Fictional account of German General Rommel's pre-World War II visit to the Mississippi Civil War battlefield of Brice's Cross Roads. Call number: PS3573 E4924 R6 1986.
Steve Yarbrough, Prisoners of War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004). Novel set in a Mississippi Delta farm town with a World War II prisoner of war camp. Call number: PS3575 A717 P75.