The titles that appear on the following list were either created during the Reconstruction era or else contain first-person accounts of that period. They are all available in the Archives & Special Collections. Researchers are also encouraged to check the library catalog for publications written by historical figures of particular interest.
James Lusk Alcorn. Views of the Hon. J.L Alcorn, on the Political Situation of Mississippi. [Friar's Point, MS: 1867]. Call Number: F341 A35.
James Lusk Alcorn. Address of J.L. Alcorn, (Republican Candidate for Governor) to the People of Mississippi. [Friar's Point, MS: 1869]. Call Number: JK2358 M73 A4 1869.
James Gibson Alverson and James Gibson Alverson Jr., eds. Memoirs of
J.M. Gibson: Terrors of the Civil War and Reconstruction Days. [San Gabriel, CA: 1966]. Reconstruction in Warren County, Mississippi. Call Number: E470.7 G5.
Amended Ordinances of Yazoo City. Yazoo City, MS: Yazoo Democrat Book and Job Office, 1873. Call Number: JS1561 Y3 A3 1872a.
Adelbert Ames. Annual Message of Gov. Adelbert Ames to the Legislature of Mississippi, Session 1875. Jackson, MS: Pilot Publishing, 1875. Call Number: J87 M72 1875.
Andrew Boyd. Louisiana and Mississippi Business Directory, 1870-71: Together with Their State Governments, Post Offices, Telegraph Stations, Brief Sketches of the Principal Cities and Villages. New Orleans: A. Boyd, 1870. Call Number: HF5049 B6.
Blanche K. Bruce. The Mississippi Election, Speech of Hon. Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi in the United States Senate, March 31, 1876. 1876. Call Number: JK4619 B7.
Stanford Emerson Chaille. Intimidation and the Number of White
and Colored Voters in Louisiana in 1876, as Shown by Statistical Data
Derived from Republican Official Reports. New Orleans: Picayune Office Job Print, 1877. Call Number: JK526 1876 C4.
The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Columbus, in Lowndes County, Mississippi. With an Appendix. Columbus, MS: Excelsior Book and Job Office, 1874. Call Number: JS789 C6 A3 1874.
Charter and Ordinance of the City of Holly Springs, Miss. Holly Springs, MS: N.G. Gill & Co., 1870. Call Number: JS916 H64 A4 1870.
Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Jackson, to Which Is Added an Appendix. Jackson, MS: Pilot Publishing Company, 1874. Call Number: JS953 J3 A3 1874.
Charles W. Clarke. Speech of Hon. Charles W. Clarke of Washington County, on the Subject of Education, Delivered in the House of Representatives, State of Mississippi, June 30, 1870. Jackson, MS: Kimball, Raymond & Co., 1870 Call Number: L166 C53 1870.
Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules of Order of Red Men of the State of Mississippi. Instituted 2d Sun, Hot Moon, G.S.D. 379. Port Gibson, MS: Irwin Russell Printer, 1871. Secret society. Call Number: HS122.3 M7 I5.
Constitution and Ordinances of the state of Mississippi: Adopted in Convention Assembled in Pursuance of the Reconstruction Acts of Congress, and Held by Order of General E.O.C. Ord, in the City of Jackson, in 1868. Jackson, MS: Mississippi State Journal Office, 1868. Call Number: JK4625.1867 A55.
Democratic Conservative Party of Mississippi Executive Committee. Issues of the Canvass, of 1876. [Jackson, MS: Democratic Conservative Party of Mississippi, 1876] No. 1 & No. 2. Call Number: F341 D45 1876.
Thomas Jefferson Durant. Letter of Thomas J. Durant to the Hon. Henry Winter Davis. New Orleans: [H.P. Lathrop], 1864. Reconstruction in Louisiana. Call Number: F375 D87 1864.
Episcopal Church. Mississippi. Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Council. Jackson, MS: Clarion Steam Book, 1869-. Special Collections has the proceedings for 1868-1877 during the Reconstruction period. Call Number: BX5825 M7.
Samuel G. French. Two Wars: An Autobiography of Gen. Samuel G. French. Nashville, TN: Confederate Veteran, 1901. Chapters 19 and 20 recount French's experiences in Washington County, Mississippi during Reconstruction. Call Number: E467.1 F87 T9.
A Full Report of the Testimony Taken before the Hon. R. Leachman, Judge of the Sixth Circuit Court District of the State of Mississippi, on the Examination of the Cases of the State vs. Jas. A. Brantley and Others, Charged with a Riot, in the City of Meridian, Miss., on the 6th of March 1871. Meridian, MS: Shannon & Sherman's, 1871. Call Number: HV6481 M7 M57 1871.
Charles E. Furlong. Origin of the Outrages at Vicksburg. Speech of Hon. Chas. E. Furlong, Senator from Warren County, in the Senate of Mississippi, December 18, 1874. Vicksburg, MS: Vicksburg Herald Print, 1874. Call Number: F347 W29 F8.
J.Z. George. Campaign Documents. Jackson, MS: [Democratic Conservative Party of Mississippi, Executive Committee], 1875. No. 1 and No. 2. Call Number: F341 D45 1875.
James George. A Digest of the Reports of the Decisions of the Supreme Court and of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of Mississippi, from the Organization of the State, to the Present Time. Philadelphia: T. & J.W. Johnson and Company, 1872. Call Number: JK4683 D5 1872.
Georgia Department of Education. The Sources and State of the School Fund. [Atlanta, GA]: Georgia Department of Education, [1872]. Call Number: LA261 G46 1872.
Horace Greeley. Mr. Greeley's Record on the Question of Amnesty and Reconstruction, from the Hour of Gen. Lee's Surrender. [New York: New York Tribune, 1872]. Call Number: E668 G74 1872.
O.D. Greene. General Orders No. 5. [Vicksburg, MS: 1867]. Call Number: E668 G744 1867.
Winfield S. Hancock. Winfield S. Hancock's Defiance of the Reconstruction Acts. Record from Official Sources of Hancock's Administration of Civil Affairs in 1867-1868 in Louisiana and Texas. Its Character and Results. [1867]. Call Number: E668 H3.
Headquarters 4th Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas) Office of Civil Affairs, Holly Springs, Miss., Dec. 16, 1867, General Order No. 42. [Holly Springs, MS]: 1867. Call Number: F341 H39 1867.
J.T. Hogan. To the Voters of the Sixth Judicial District, Composed of the Counties of Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Noxubee, Neshoba, Kemper and Winston. [Columbus, MS: 1865]. Call Number: F341 H692 1865.
Issues of the Canvass, 1871: Compiled from the Clarion. [Jackson, MS: Clarion, 1871]. Call Number: F341 I88 1871.
Issues of the Canvass: Compiled from the Clarion, and Presented to the Democratic Conservative Canvassers. Jackson, MS: Power & Barksdale [1875]. Call Number: F341 I88 1875.
John Lipscomb Johnson. Autobiographical Notes. [Boulder, CO]: 1958. Johnson was a Professor of English at the University of Mississippi between 1873 and 1889. His memoir includes several chapters on this period. Call Number: BX6495 J5 A3.
A Journal Containing the Articles of Incorporation of the Ripley Railroad and the Minutes of Its Board of Directors, Signed by W.C. Falkner, President. Photocopy of 1871 original. Call Number: HE2771 M7 R5.
Journal of the Fortieth Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Mississippi, Held in Christ Church, Vicksburg, April 25, 26, 27, 1867: Together with Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Conventions of 1862, 63, 64, 65, & 66 and the Bishop's Addresses to the Same. Jackson, MS: Daily and Weekly Clarion Steam Printing, 1867. Call Number: BX5917 M7 J6 1867.
Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi, Sitting as a Court of Impeachment, in the Trials of Adelbert Ames, Governor, Alexander K. Davis, Lieutenant Governor, Thomas W. Cardozo, Superintendent of Public Education. Jackson, MS: Power & Barksdale, 1876. Call Number: JK4659 Z5 1876.
Edward King. The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1875. Call Number: F215 K52 1875.
L.Q.C. Lamar. Speech of Hon. L.Q.C. Lamar, of Mississippi: On the Louisiana Contested Election in the U.S. House of Representatives, June 8, 1874. Washington, DC: John H. Cunningham, 1874. Call Number: KFL421.82 S3 L3 1874.
Cassius D. Landon. Speech of Hon. Cassius D. Landon of Warren County, on the Subject of Public Education, Delivered in the House of Representatives, State of Mississippi, June 14, 1870. Jackson, MS: Kimball, Raymond & Co., 1870. Call Number: LA313 L3.
James D. Lynch. Redpath: Or, the Ku-Klux Tribunal. Columbus, MS: Excelsior Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1877. Poetry. Call Number: PS2351 L532 R4.
James D. Lynch. Kemper County Vindicated: And a Peep at Radical Rule in Mississippi. New York: E.J. Hale & Son, 1879. Call Number: F347 K3 L9. Call Number: F347 K3 L9.
John Roy Lynch. Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Call Number: F341 L97 A3.
Matthew Fontaine Maury. Address of Com. M.F. Maury, before the Fair of the Agricultural & Mechanical Soc. of Memphis, Tenn. Delivered at the Fair Grounds...Oct. 17th, 1871. Memphis, TN: Appeal Job Office, 1871. Includes remarks by Mississippi politician Jacob Thompson. Call Number: HD1769 M3.
Richard McAllister. Appeal from the Decision of the Commissioners of Claims under the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1871 to the Congress of the United States in the Case of Isaac Bloom, of New Orleans, La... Washington, DC: W.H. Moore, 1874. Call Number: E480 U5.
Elizabeth Avery Merwether. The Klu Klux Klan; Or, the Carpetbagger in New Orleans. Memphis, TN: Southern Baptist Publication Pring, 1877. Call Number: PS2389 M253 K8.
Mississippi Constitutional Convention. Journal of the Proceedings and Debates in the Constitutional Convention of the State of Mississippi, August 1865. Jackson, MS: E.M. Yerger, 1865. Call Number: JK4625 1865 A25.
Mississippi Constitutional Convention. Constitution of the State of Mississippi: As Amended, with the Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted by the Constitutional Convention August, 1865. Jackson, MS: E.M. Yerger, 1865. Call Number: JK4225 1865 A26.
The Mississippi Educational Journal: Devoted to Popular Instruction and Literature. Special Collections has Vol. 1, No. 8 (1872). Call Number: L11 M525.
Mississippi Legislature. Joint Committee. Testimony before the Joint Committee of MIssissippi Legislature to Investigate the Meridian Riot. Jackson, MS: Kimball, 1871. Call Number: F349 M5 M5 1871.
Mississippi Legislature. Joint Committee on the Insurrection in Vicksburg, 1874. Report of the Joint Special Committee Appointed to Investigate the Late Insurrection in the City of Vicksburg, Warren County. Jackson, MS: Pilot Publishing Company, 1875. Call Number: F349 V6 M6.
Mississippi Republican State Executive Committee. The Mississippi Text Book of Law and Facts for the Canvass of 1869, Arranged for Convenient Reference. Vicksburg Republican Print, 1869. Call Number: JK2358 M73 M5 1869.
Mississippi State Board of Immigration and Agriculture. Guide to Mississippi. Jackson, MS: Pilot Publishing Company, 1874. Economic conditions in the state. Call Number: HC107 M7 G7.
Hernando DeSoto Money. The Electoral County. Speech of Hon. Hernando D. Money, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, March 1, 1877. Washington, DC: 1877. Call Number: JK1369 44th M6.
A.T. Morgan. Yazoo: Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. Washington, DC: The Author, 1884. Call Number: F341 M84.
A.T. Morgan. Yazoo; Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South; A Personal Narrative. New York: Russell & Russell, 1968. Reprint of the 1884 edition with a new introduction. Call Number: F341 M84 1884a.
J.S. Morris. Address at the Opening of the Fifth Annual Fair of the Attala County Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Jackson, MS: Alcorn and Fischer, 1871. Call Number: S553 A8 M6.
J.S. Morris. Letter from J.S. Morris, Esq., Attorney-General of Mississippi, on the Presidential Campaign of 1872. [1872]. Call Number: JK2281 M669 1872.
J.S. Morris. Official Opinion of Attorney General Morris, Fixing the Time When
the Next General Election Shall Be Held in the State: No Election in
1873, Al the State and County Officers, and Also the Present
Legislature, Required by the Constitution to Hold Over Till the
Constitutional General Election, in November, 1874: The Governor's
Letter, and the Official Opinion of the Attorney General. [Jackson, MS: 1873]. Call Number: JK4690 M67 1873.
George J. Mortimer. Speech of Hon. Geo. J. Mortimer at the Great Mass Meeting of the Republicans at Crystal Springs, Copiah County, Mississippi, June 19, 1869. [1869]. Call Number: JK2358 M73 1869.
Oliver P. Morton. Speech of Hon. O.P. Morton: Delivered in the United States Senate, January 19, 1876, on the Mississippi Election. [Washington, DC: 1876]. Call Number: F341 M892.
The Natchez-Democrat. Special Collections has scattered issues of this newspaper dating from October 1865 through January 1866. Call Number: Newspaper.
The Oxford Falcon. Special Collections has scattered issues of this newspaper dating from November 1865 through November 1872. The Microfilm department has more issues spanning 1865 through 1885. Call Number: Newspaper.
Stephen Powers. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Hartford, CT: Columbian Book Co., 1872. Includes a description of travel through Mississippi. Call Number: F786 P68 1872.
Record of the Phi Chapter, Fraternity of Delta Psi, 1855-1874. Oxford, MS: University of Mississippi, [1874]. Call Number: LJ75 D53 1874.
Reports of the President, Chief Engineer, Secretary and Treasurer of the Selma, Marion, & Memphis R.R. Co. of Mississippi and Tennessee, at a Meeting Held at Columbus, Mississippi, March 8, 1871. Columbus, MS: Excelsior Book and Job Office, 1871. Call Number: HE2771 M7 S4.
The Republican Party, the Standard Bearer of Civilization and National Progress. [New York: 1872]. Call Number: JK2358 M71 R4.
Reunion Overture of the Northern General Assembly to the Southern Presbyterian Church, Considered: Or, the Records of the Northern O.S. Assembly, from A.D. 1861 to 1869, Reviewed. Jackson, MS: Clarion Steam Printing Establishment, 1870. Call Number: BX8963 M7 R4.
Otho Robards Singleton. The Mississippi Election: Speech of Hon. O.R. Singleton, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, August 14, 1876. Washington, DC: 1876. Call Number: JK2246 M7 S5 1876.
Otho Robards Singleton. Counting the Electoral Votes: Speech of Hon. O.R. Singleton, of Mississippi in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1877. Washington, DC: 1877. Call Number: JK2246 M7 S5 1877.
Otho Robards Singleton. Speech of Hon. O.R. Singleton: Delivered at Carthage, Miss., on the 3d Day of September, 1877, Before a Mass Meeting of the Citizens of Leake and Adjoining Counties. [1877]. Call Number: F341 S55 1877.
The Southern Field and Factory; A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Manufacturers and Mechanical Arts. Special Collections has Vol. 2, No. 5 (1872) of this Jackson, Mississippi periodical. Call Number: S1 S63.
Fred P. Staton. Argument. [In the Case of Mssrs. J. & T. Green] To the Hon. Wm. Lawrence, Chairman of the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives. Washington, DC: 1874. Call Number: E480 U52.
Charles Stearns. The Black Man of the South and the Rebels; Or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter. New York: American News Company, 1872. Call Number: F291 S79.
Supplement to "Natchez Courier": Natchez, Miss., June 15, 1865. Natchez, MS: 1865. Freedmen's possession of land. Call Number: E468.9 S95 1865.
Joe Taylor. The Young Men of the New South: Their Education, Duties and Rewards. An Address: Delivered Before the Phi Sigma and Hermaean Societies, at the Commencment of the University of Mississippi, on June 23, 1869. Memphis, TN: Hite & Corwine, 1869. Call Number: LD3416.2 T3.
The Testimony in the Impeachment of Adelbert Ames, as Governo of Mississippi. Jackson, MS: Power & Barksdale, 1877. Call Number: JK4659 Z5 1876a.
Frederick Tomkins. A Voice from Vicksburg and a Plea for the Coloured Freed-Men (London: J. Snow). Call Number: E185.2 T6.
Lyman Trumball. Argument of Hon. Lyman Trumball in the Supreme Court of the United States: March 4, 1868, in the Matter of Ex Parte William H. McCardle, Appellant. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1868. Call Number: F341 T7 1868.
U.S. Army. General Orders No. 2: Head-qrs, U.S. Forces, Macon, Miss., May 24, 1865. [Macon, MS]: 1865. Call Number: E468.9 U55 1865.
U.S. Congress. Joint Select Committee on Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, so Far as Regards the Execution of the Laws, and Safety of the Citizens of the United States and Testimony Taken...Made to the Two Houses of Congress February 19, 1872. Special Collections has volumes 2, 11, and 12; Gov Docs holds a complete run. Call Number: E668 U5.
U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Outrages in Mississippi. Report of the Committee on Outrages in Mississippi. [1876]. Call Number: F341 M636.
U.S. Congress. Senate Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875. Mississippi in 1875: Report of the Select Committee to Inquire into the Mississippi Election of 1875: with the Testimony and Documentary Evidence. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1876. Vols. 1 & 2. Call Number: JK2246 M7 A5 1876.
Vicksburg Daily Times. Special Collections has scattered issues of this newspaper dating from April through October 1875. The Microfilm department has issues from 1866-1875. Call Number: Newspaper.
The Vicksburg Troubles. 1874. Call Number: F349 V6 V5.
John Newton Waddell. Historical Discourse Delivered on the Quarter-Centennial Anniversary of the University of Mississippi on Wednesday, June 25th. Oxford, MS: [Holly Springs Reporter], 1873. Call Number: LD3413 W2.
E.G. Wall. Wall's Manual of Agriculture for the Southern United States. Memphis, TN: Southwestern Publishing Company, 1870. Call Number: S505 W3.
Henry W. Warren. Reminiscences of a Mississippi Carpet-Bagger. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1979. Photocopy of 1914 edition. Call Number: F341 W29 1979.
George F. Webb and J.L. Power. Mississippi Manual of Legal and Business Forms: Containing Forms for Justices of the Peace, County Officers, Attorneys and Professional and Business Men Generally, in the State of Mississippi: To Which Is Added the New Constitution, a Directory of the Several Courts, Post Offices, Stamp Duties, Postal Rates, Fees, and Salaries of Public Officers, Election and Population Statistics, and Other Data Useful to the Public and Private Citizen. Jackson, MS: Clarion Steam Job and Book Printing Establishment, 1869. Call Number: KFM6668 W43 1869.
Anne Webster, comp. Mississippi Confederate Pardon Applications. Carrollton, MS: Pioneer Publishing Co., 2004. Call Number: HV8692 W43 2004.
Joseph Philbrick Webster. Protect the Freedman: Song & Chorus, Sung by Skiff & Gaylord's Ministrels. Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1866. Sheet music. Call Number: M1640 W4 1866.
James M. Wells. The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi. Washington, DC: Chisolm Monument Association, 1877. Call Number: F347 K3 W5.
A.M. West. Speech of Gen. A.M. West, President of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company: Delivered before an Assemblage of the Stockholders of the Water Valley, Miss. on the Subject of the Proposed Lease of the Road. New Albany, IN: Norman & Matthews, 1868. Call Number: HE2791 M723x 1868.
Thomas Dwight Witherspoon. The Appeal of the South to Its Educated Man. An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of Mississippi, Delivered in the Hall of the University, on Wednesday, June 26, 1867. Memphis, TN: [Public Ledger Job Print House], 1867. Call Number: LD3412.45 W5.
J.L. Wofford et al. Address to the Reconstruction Committee in Relation to Mississippi. [1868]. Call Number: F341.5 A33 1868.
Edward M. Yerger. Ex Parte, Edward M. Yerger: Application for Writ of Habeas Corpus, in Supreme Court: Argument on Constitutionality of the "Reconstruction Acts" and the Powers of Congress under the "Guarantee Clause." Jackson, MS: Clarion Office, [1867]. Call Number: E668 Y47 1867.
Edward M. Yerger. Trial of E.M. Yerger, Before a Military Commission for the Killing of Bv't-Col. Joseph G. Crane, at Jackson, Miss., June 8th, 1868. Including Testimony of All the Witnesses; Arguments...Report for the Clarionby W.S.M. Wilkinson. Jackson, MS: Clarion Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1869. Call Number: HV6533 M7 W5.