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  42nd Mississippi Regiment, Company B, casualty list

  Undated handwritten list of the soldiers killed, wounded and missing of Company B, 42nd Mississippi Regiment, possibly compiled by Captain L. Guy Woollard while a prisoner-of-war.

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  Letter to Drury Boyce, Como, Mississippi, 1845

  Letter from Mira Boyce, Laurens County, South Carolina, to her husband Drury in Como, Mississippi, March 6, 1845. The letter is mainly news about family and friends, but also notes that a duel took place in Augusta. Mira and Drury Boyce were the parents of Mary Elizabeth Woollard, the second wife of L. Guy Woollard.

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  Letter to Elizabeth L. Downs, Como, Mississippi, 1847

  Letter from P.H. Brewster, Laurens, South Carolina, to Elizabeth L. Downs, Como, Mississippi, September 5, 1847. The content is mainly news about relatives and friends.

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  Letter to L.G. Woollard, 1865

  Letter from J.T.S. (possibly J.T. Steel), Privates Barracks, to Captain L.G. Woollard, Officers Barracks, unidentified camp, May 8, 1865. Informs Woollard of the fate of soldiers in his unit. Woollard and his men may have been at Fort Delaware at this time.

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  Letter to Mira Boyce, South Carolina, 1845

  Letter from Drury Graydon Boyce, in Como, Mississippi, to his wife, Mira (Myra) Phebe, in Laurens County, South Carolina, February 14, 1845. Apart from discussing his activities, Drury describes his visit to Memphis. Drury and Mira Boyce were the parents of Mary Elizabeth Woollard, the second wife of L. Guy Woollard.

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  Letter to Rowena Woollard, 1863

  Letter to Rowena Woollard from Jim Hall, Orange County, Virginia, August 6, 1863. Informs Mrs. Woollard that her husband, Captain L. Guy Woollard, has been captured and is a prisoner-of-war and probably held at Johnsons Island. Hall was probably a sergeant in Woollard's company. Rowena died before Woollard returned home.

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  L. Guy Woollard journal, 1861-1863

  51-page journal of Leander Guy Woollard (1834-1874) of the 9th Mississippi Infantry, and later the 42nd Mississippi Regiment, who served in Florida, eastern Tennessee, and then in Virginia. The journal covers the period of March 23, 1861, to March 1, 1863. A transcript is included.

  Woollard was a lawyer who joined the "Senatobia Invincibles" in February 1861 that became Company I of the 9th Mississippi Infantry until the men's service ended in 1862. Upon reenlisting, Woollard became a first lieutenant, and then captain of Company B of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he was captured with about 30 of his men and imprisoned on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. On March 21, 1865, he was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland. After parole in April, he returned to Mississippi and became probate clerk of DeSoto County. Woollard's health never recovered from his imprisonment, and he died in 1874.

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  L. Guy Woollard journal, 1863-1865

  Journal of Captain Leander Guy Woollard (1834-1874) of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment. The journal covers the period of June 25, 1861, to June 8, 1865. Pages 17-18 (November 13-December 19, 1863) and pages 29-32 (September 29-December 31, 1864) are missing. Page 36 finishes on April 3, 1865. The final, and unnumbered, page has one entry headed Fort Delaware, June 8, 1865. Woollard was captured at Gettysburg and then imprisoned at Johnsons Island in Lake Erie.

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  Mary Elizabeth Woollard obituary, 1929

  Obituary for Mary Elizabeth Boyce Woollard (1847-1929), the second wife of L. Guy Woollard.

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  Petition to incorporate Senatobia, Mississippi, 1869

  Petition signed by L. Guy Woollard and others seeking permission from provisional Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to incorporate Senatobia, DeSoto County, April 9, 1869. Ames approved the measure on April 14.

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  Probate Clerk candidate notice, DeSoto County, Mississippi, 1865

  September 1865 notice issued by L. Guy Woollard declaring his candidacy in the election on October 2, 1865, for the office of Probate Clerk of DeSoto County, Mississippi,

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  Probate Clerk commission, DeSoto County, Mississippi, 1865

  Commission issued by Mississippi Governor Benjamin Humphreys confirming the election of L. Guy Woollard as DeSoto County Probate Court Clerk, dated October 20, 1865.