Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company receipt book, 1855-1856, 1859-1864.

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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company receipt book, 1855-1856, 1859-1864.

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This receipt book records freight delivered by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at the De Soto, Miss., station (1855-1856). The agent's name was apparently Pardue. The volume was later used by a member of the Pardue family for a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of poetry, stories, illustrations of women's dresses, and articles on bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Confederate General William J. Hardee, and Union candidate for president, John Bell of Tennessee (1859-1864).

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Bell, John, 1796-1869

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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company

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Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873

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