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[Identification of item], in the Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers, #1566, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Deposit 1949

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• Autograph albums--Confederate States of America.
• Ciphers.
• Confederate States of America. Army of the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas--Records and correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Biography.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
• Hospitals--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Johnson Island Prison.
• New Orleans (La.)--Economic conditions.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
• Pony express.
• Saint Joseph (Mo.)--History.
• Saint Joseph (Mo.)--Politics and government.
• Saint Joseph (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Secession.
• Southern Hospital Association of New Orleans.
• Thompson, Meriwether Jeff, 1826-1876.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Registers.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson, Confederate officer and mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.

Papers of Meriwether Jeff Thompson include about 70 Confederate rosters and muster rolls, chiefly of the Army of the Northern Sub-District of Arkansas; Thompson's manuscript autobiography and reminiscences of the Civil War years; correspondence while in active service and as a federal prisoner at Johnsons Island; a Confederate cipher invented by Thompson; and an autograph book. Other papers include correspondence while Thompson was living in New Orleans; accounts, 1866-1867, of the Southern Hospital Association of New Orleans; two speeches during the secession crisis while he was mayor of Saint Joseph, Mo.; and other items, including newspaper articles on the Pony Express.