The Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers (Annotated): A Complete Digitized Reference Collection from Missouri, Arkansas, and the Civil War Era

Differentiation statement

This annotated reference edition includes:

• An original editorial introduction to the C1030 collection

• A biographical orientation to M. Jeff Thompson

• A document guide and archival citation method

• Research cautions distinguishing memoir, wartime documents, later clippings, and genealogy

• The complete 308-scan digital collection reproduced in archive order

Product description

This annotated reference edition includes:

• The complete 308-scan Meriwether Jeff Thompson Papers (C1030) from the State Historical Society of Missouri

• Thompson's Civil War memoirs and military career material

• Wartime letters, orders, speeches, maps, and Missouri-related documents

• Business and legal papers, clippings, and Thompson family genealogies

• An original guide explaining the collection's structure, source limitations, and citation method

Meriwether Jeff Thompson was a Missouri civil engineer, surveyor, railroad promoter, mayor of St. Joseph, and Confederate brigadier general. His papers offer a first-person window into Missouri and Arkansas during the Civil War, alongside later family and biographical records.

This volume preserves the original scans so readers can examine the documents as historical artifacts, including their typography, handwriting, maps, clippings, and archival labels. It is designed for historians, genealogists, students, educators, and readers researching Missouri's Civil War history.

This book is not an official publication of the State Historical Society of Missouri.