Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Catharine Adrianna Forney-Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 2483
Content Description
Family and personal papers of Catharine Adrianna Forney-Smith, including correspondence, clippings, photographs, and a land grant certificate. Many family members lived in Hope, Hempstead County, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Several folders of correspondence are comprised of a series of letters written to her by her husband, Benjamin F. Forney, while she was visiting relatives in New York. The collection also includes a handwritten organizational history of the Pat Cleburne chapter of the...
Dates:
circa 1860-1962
James Madison Hudson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC 1390
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains typescripts of two memoirs by Arkansan James Madison Hudson, one covering his service in the Confederate army, and one covering his experiences of Reconstruction in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
In addition, the collection includes examples of Confederate currency, including Arkansas state treasury warrants, Confederate States of America banknotes, and local scrip.
Dates:
1861-1907
Jeanette R. Vaughan Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MC 901
Scope and Content Note
Scrapbook of mounted newspaper clippings related to Reconstruction in Arkansas and the Memphis yellow fever epidemic of 1878.
Dates:
1869-1879