Sanders, Lee and Sargent Families Papers
The Sanders, Lee and Sargent Families Papers digital collection is a collection of selected digitized materials from the Sanders, Lee and Sargent Families Papers collection. The Sanders, Lee and Sargent families papers contain materials that document the lives of members of the three families, which are of significant social historical interest. There is extensive correspondence among members of the Lee family between 1850 and 1910, and a calendar of the correspondence is included as an appendix. A large number of deeds show the acquisitions made by the Lee and Sanders families in Columbus, Mississippi. The scrapbooks and recipe books give an insight into the interests of the individual members who compiled them. There are a large number of photographs, either loose or in albums, which also document the people of the families and the events which shaped them.
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Letter, S. H. Pope to W. H. Lee; 1/8/1865
Samuel H. Pope
Letter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer's Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama. Pope is stationed in Shuqualak as Purchasing Commissary. He invites Lee to visit Columbus and mentions that he can stay with Mrs. Morrow (Pope's mother-in-law) and ''Miss Clodie'' (Clotille Morrow). He wonders if Lee can work out a transfer to the hospital in Columbus. ''All excitement from Raids has subsided.'' Sam Battle Fort was shot through both shoulders in November and was ''unable to push on a coat.'' Pope explains why didn't receive his recent mail in a timely way; when he telegraphed Lee, he had ''just returned from a tour of inspection on horse back, through the interior of the state.'' 1865.
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Letter, S. H. Pope to W. H. Lee; 2/19/1865
Samuel H. Pope
Letter, Samuel H. Pope in Shuqualak, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, at the Officer's Hospital in Uniontown, Alabama, expressing his desire for Lee to visit him at his boarding house. Sims was wounded and captured. Pope sympathizes with Lee's unpleasant experience in the hospital. General Stephen D. Lee and Regina Harrison had a ''grand affair'' of a wedding, and ''Maj. Blewitt gave them a large Confederate party the following evening.'' Pope doesn't believe that war time is the right time to get married. 1865.
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Letter, W. S. Lee to W. H. Lee; 3/29/1862
William States Lee
Letter, William States Lee, a minister in Edgefield District, South Carolina, to his grandson, William Hollinshed Lee, of Blythe's Regiment, Company A, Corinth, Mississippi. He mentions the evacuation of Columbus and doesn't know if the letter will reach its destination. He writes that the South will not be subjugated. He believes that if the southern states had asserted themselves earlier and more strongly, they might have become an independent nation without a war and discusses God's purposes in the War. He agrees with his grandson's assertion that no one would be ''base enough'' to take office in the South under Lincoln's leadership. Any such man ''would richly deserve a Traitor's doom.'' He writes about the institution of the draft. 1862.
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Letter, C. Morrow to W. H. Lee; 11/20/1861
Clotille Morrow
Letter, Clotille Morrow, a teenaged girl in Columbus, Mississippi, to William Hollinshed Lee, telling him that Columbus is ''exceedingly dull,'' with no parties, weddings, or beaux. Captain Baskerville has raised a cavalry battalion with five companies from Columbus, Okolona, Corinth, and Pickens County, Alabama. The battalion was ordered to Iuka, and S. H. Pope is the Adjutant. The letter writer and Mariah Barry got them a ''very handsome'' flag to be presented by Dr. Lowndes Lipscomb. John Pope and Tom Shields tried to raise up a battalion but were unsuccessful. Mr. Wellford will finally ''risk his precious life with the rest of his countrymen'' and joined a company in Virginia. William Witherspoon resigned, along with the second lieutenant of Blewett's Company (48th Regiment, Co. C). The young ladies in town are occupied with sewing, knitting, and thinking of the soldiers. 1865.