Deanne Stephens Nuwer - Plague Among the Magnolias: The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi

Manuscript Collections

Biloxi Public Library, Biloxi, Mississippi

Stevens, M. James. Collection.

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Longfellow Collection.

Marshall County Museum, Holly Springs, Mississippi Catholic Advocate, 1875.

Marshall County and Holly Springs Collection.

Yellow Fever Miscellaneous Collection.

McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Agnew, Samuel Andrew. Diary.

Hardy, William H. and Hattie Lott. Papers.

Edward G. Miner Library, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York

Miner Yellow Fever Collection.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson Stone, John Marshall. Papers.

Yellow Fever Collection, Miscellaneous Papers.

National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Bethesda, Maryland

Yellow Fever Collection.

Old Vicksburg Courthouse and Museum, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Miscellaneous Yellow Fever Collection.

Records of Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home, 18751878.

Sisters of Charity Archives, Nazareth, Kentucky

1878 Yellow Fever File.

Sisters of Mercy Convent and Archives, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Private Miscellaneous Collection, 1878.

Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Simpson, Kate. Papers.

Special Collections, University of Mississippi, Oxford

Yellow Fever Miscellaneous Papers1878.

Newspapers (all 1878 unless noted otherwise)

Mississippi:

Aberdeen Examiner

Baptist Record

Canton American Citizen

Corinth Harbinger

Crystal Springs Monitor

Greenville Times

Holly Springs Occasional

Holly Springs Reporter

Jackson Clarion, 1868

Jackson Clarion-Ledger

Jackson Daily Bulletin

Jackson Weekly Clarion, 1877

Kosciusko Star

Magnolia Herald

Pascagoula Democrat-Star

Starkville Citizen

Vicksburg Daily Commercial

Vicksburg Weekly Herald

Water Valley Courier

Yazoo Valley Flag

Louisiana:

New Orleans Daily Picayune, 1847

New Orleans Times

Ohio:

Cincinnati Commercial

New York:

Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper

New York Herald

New York Times

Tennessee:

Memphis Daily Appeal

Books, Articles, Theses, and Dissertations

Anderson, Mrs. William Albert. A Chapter in the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society 10 (1909): 22329.

Appletons Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1878. Vol. 3. New York: D. Appleton, 1888.

Augustin, George. History of Yellow Fever. New Orleans: Searcy and Pfaff, 1909.

Ballard, Michael B. Civil War Mississippi: A Guide. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Bates, Barbara. Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 18761938. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Bearss, Edwin C. The Battle of Jackson, May 14, 1863. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1981.

Belding, David L. Textbook of Clinical Parasitology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952.

Berkow, Robert, ed. The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. 13th ed. Rahway, N.J.: Merck, 1977.

Berman, Alex, and Michael A. Flannery. Americas Botanico-Medical Movements: Vox Populi. New York: Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001.

Bettersworth, John K. Mississippi: A History. Austin: Steck, 1959.

Bloom, Khaled J. The Mississippi Valleys Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

Blum, Edward J. The Crucible of Disease: Trauma, Memory, and National Reconciliation during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. Journal of Southern History 69 (November 2003): 791820.

Boles, John. Black Southerners, 16191869. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983.

Bond, Bradley G. Mississippi: A Documentary History. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

. Political Culture in the Nineteenth-Century South: Mississippi, 18301900. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

Bonner, Sherwood. The Yellow Plague of 78: A Record of Horror and Heroism. Youths Companion, April 3, 1879, 11719.

Bowers, Claude. The Tragic Era: The Revolution after Lincoln. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Cabaniss, Allen. The University of Mississippi: Its First Hundred Years. Hattiesburg: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1971.

Caire, R. J., and Katy Caire. History of Pass Christian. Pass Christian, Miss.: Lafayette, 1976.

Calhoun, J. M. The Epidemic at Valley Home, 1878. Report of the Mississippi State Board of Health for the Years 187879, 8589. Jackson, Miss.: Power and Barksdale, 1879.

Camejo, Pedro. Racism, Revolution, Reaction, 18611877: The Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction. New York: Monad Press, 1976.

Carrigan, Jo Ann. The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 17961905. Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana Press, 1994.

Carter, Henry Rose. Yellow Fever: An Epidemiological and Historical Study of Its Place of Origin. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1931.

Claiborne, J. F. H. Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State: With Biographical Notes of Eminent Citizens. Jackson, Miss.: Power and Barksdale, 1880.

Coker, William L. Valley of Springs: The Story of Iuka. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Hunter, 1975.

Conclusions of the Board of Experts Authorized by Congress to Investigate the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878, Being in Reply to Questions of the Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, upon the Subject of Epidemic Diseases. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1879.

Cook, Cita. The Challenges of Daughterhood. In Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, ed. Martha Swain, Elizabeth Anne Payne, and Marjorie Julian Spruill, 2138. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Cook, Trevor. Samuel Hahnemann, the Founder of Homeopathic Medicine. Wellingborough, U.K.: Thorsons, 1981.

Cotton, Gordon. Asbury: A History; The History of a Church, a Cemetery, and a Community. Vicksburg, Miss.: privately published, 1994.

Cox, Karen. Dixies Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.

Craven, Avery Odelle. Reconstruction: The Ending of the Civil War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.

Crawford, John. A Lecture, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases. Baltimore: Edward J. Coale, 1811.

Cresswell, Stephen. Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 18771902. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1995.

Cross, Ralph D., and Robert W. Wales, eds. Atlas of Mississippi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974.

Dancy, F. W. The Epidemic at Holly Springs, Miss., in 1878. Report of the MississippiState Board of Health for the Years 187879, 5963. Jackson, Miss.: Power and Barksdale, 1879.

Daniel, F. E. Epidemic Yellow Fever at Lake, Miss. Report of the Mississippi State Board of Health for the Years 187879, 5358. Jackson, Miss.: Power and Barksdale, 1879.

. Original Communications. Mississippi Valley Medical Monthly