M. A. MILLER'S SKETCHBOOK OF 1860
                    CORINTH: THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
                       OF A MISSISSIPPI BOOMTOWN

FOOTNOTES

CHAPTER I -

[1] Lorna Price, The Plan of St. Gall in Brief (Berkeley, Los
      Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1982).


CHAPTER II -

[1] R.B. Hollandsworth.   "History of  Old  Tishomingo  County."
        Corinth Herald, 15 December 1903, Historical Edition, p. 6.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

[4] Ibid., 7.

[5] Ibid.

[6] Ibid., 8.

[7] Ibid.

[8] Ibid., 7.

[9] Ibid., 8.

[10] Rosemary  Taylor Williams, Cross City Chronicle, (Corinth,  MS:
        Corinth Junior Auxilliary, 1976), 18.

[11] W.P.A. State-wide Historical Research Project, Susie V. Powell,
        comp.,  Alcorn County, vol. II  (Works Progress
        Admininstration, 1936-1939), 33.

[12] Ibid., 22.

[13] Joseph Szeplaki, editor.  Louis Kossuth "The Nation's Guest", A
        Bibliography on his trip in the United States, December 4,
        1851 - July 14, 1852.  Bethlen Press, Inc.  Ligonier, Pa.,
        U.S.A. 1976. 10-11.   There  is a legend that Kossuth  settled
        in Tishomingo County  after  his arrival in the United States.
        This story  is completely   false because on July 14, 1852, he
        sailed for England.   He was in Mississippi on March 21, when
        he met Governor Foote in Jackson, but he was never in
        Tishomingo County.

[14] W.P.A., Alcorn County, 24.

[15] Sharp.  No publication date.  Located in the Rienzi Public
        Library Archives, Rienzi, Mississippi.

[16] W.P.A., Alcorn County, 25.

[17] Ibid., 26.

[18] Williams, Cross City, 16.

[19] Charles  Dickens.  American Notes.  New York,P. F. Collier  and
        Son.  No date. 211.

[20] Holandsworth, History of Old Tishomingo County, 13.

[21] Ibid., 8.

[22] S.M. Nabors, History of Old Tishomingo County.  1940,  Corinth,
        Mississippi.  32-33.

[23] Ibid., 14.

[24] Ibid., 19.

[25] Charles  Sackett Sydnor, Slavery in Mississippi.  Peter  Smith,
        Gloucester, MA, 1965.  Map on frontispiece.

[26] Holandsworth, History of Old Tishomingo County, 20.

[27] Ibid., 21.

[28] Brief  histories  of both of these railroads are  available  in
        Pryor,  Railroad Development in Mississippi 1830-1860.
        Special Collections, Mitchell Memorial Library, Mississippi
        State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi.  No date.

[29] Holandsworth, History of Old Tishomingo County, 21-22.

[30] Williams, Cross City, 30.

[31] W.P.A., Alcorn County, 11.

[32] Williams, Cross City, 30.

[33] Nabors, History of Old Tishomingo County, 64.

[34] Holandsworth,  "History  of  Old  Tishomingo  County",  Corinth
Herald, 25.

[35] Ibid., 26; Williams, Cross City, 29.

[36] Nabors, History of Old Tishomingo County, 64.

[37] M.A.  Miller  sketches, 1860.  Copy in the  possession  of  the
        author.   Originals located at the North East  Regional
        Library, Corinth, Mississippi.

[38] Rogers, Margaret Green.  Civil War Corinth 1861-1865.  Corinth,
        Mississippi.  The Rankin Printery, 1987.  18.  The only
        building shown  in Miller's sketchbook inside the city limits
        of Corinth that  may  have predated the towns founding was the
        Moss House. Margaret Green Rogers claims that this building
        was built before the coming of the railroads as a stage coach
        stop.


CHAPTER III -

[1] Unpublished biography of M.A. Miller from the collection of the
        Corinth Museum, Corinth, Mississippi.

[2] Alumni Records of Gettysburg (previously Pennsylvania)  College
        1832-1932.

[3] J.L.Fehr,  Pocahontas  Flat Top Coal Field  Industrial  Edition
        supplement  to  the  Daily Telgraph,  Bluefield,  West
        Virginia. November 1, 1896.

[4] Gettysburg  College has no record of what classes were  offered
        when Miller attended college here, so there is no way of
        knowing what exactly he learned here.

[5] Copies of these early drawings were given to the author by M.A.
       Miller's  great granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Shepherd  of
       Sheperdstown, West Virginia.

[6] Unpublished biography from the files of the Corinth, MS Museum.
       Records of Miller's work in Memphis have not been located.

[7] Memphis City Directory for 1860, p. 250.

[8] Biography, hand-written by M.A. Miller describing his services to
       the  Confederate army and his imprisonment by  the  occupying
       Federal forces in Memphis, Tennessee.  The author's copy of
       this biography  was obtained from Miller's great-granddaughter,
       Mrs. Claire Poter Shepherd of Sheperdstown, West Virigina.
       This biography tells  of Miller's capture by the Federals as
       he  was attempting  to smuggle two boxes of officer's swords
       across the river  from Memphis to the confederate cavalry in
       Arkansas. He had been  engaged in smuggling arms over the river
       for several months without any trouble, but this time his luck
       ran out. He was  in the middle of the river when a picketboat
       ran up on  him. Miller tried to sink his small skiff by jumping
       on the gunwales, but  it was too heavy.  The officer in charge
       of  the picketboat arrested him and the skiff man also and took
       them and the skiff's contents  to a nearby gun boat.  When the
       boxes were opened and the contents disclosed, Miller was
       immediately carried off to the military  prison in the center
       of the city.  A few days later a court  martial was held.  The
       evidence was conclusive and Miller could  make  no defense, but
       it was five or six weeks  before he became  aware  of  the
       verdict that he was to be shot.   Miller learned  of his
       sentence when General Sherman visited him in  his cell
       and told him.  After learning his fate, Miller and several of
       his friends in the city began to help plot his escape. Miller
       told  a guard, with whom he had become quite friendly, that his
       child was very ill and not expected to live.  Miller  asked the
       guard to accompany him to his house to see his  child  and  the
       guard agreed. Before their visit, Miller had gotten word to
       his wife about his plan and she had prepared  his  escape.
       After Miller and the guard arrived, she asked if Miller would
       like  to bathe and change his linen.  Miller entered the room
       where the bath had been prepared while the guard waited outside
       the room. Miller then left the bath room, after changing into a
       new suit of clothes, by a door hidden from view of the guard.
       As simple as this scheme seems, it worked.


CHAPTER IV -

[1] Laston M. Patten, Architectural Drawing (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall
        Hunt Publishing Company, 1977).

[2]   For this apparent attempted two-point perspective,  see  the
        buggy shop on the bottom of the second page of the sketchbook.

[3] Today  this area of town, located at the intersections of  U.S.
        Highways  45  and 72, is still known as college hill.   The
        view into  the  downtown area is obstructed by later buildings
        but  a sense of the prominence of this building can be
        obtained.

[4] Page nine, lower left hand corner, the Reese Sawyer cottage.

[5] Page nine, upper left hand corner, Samuel M. Curley house.

[6] Page  12,  bottom right hand corner.  It is  known  from  other
        sources  that this house was located on the Phillips  farm
        which was  to the north west of town.  Mrs. Phillips and her
        late husband were among the earliest settlers to the area and
        built their residence  some time before the establishment of
        Corinth. This inclusion of a pre-Corinth building in Miller's
        sketchbook points to the fact that there must have been other
        buildings in the area that were there when the town was
        surveyed. Some of these buildings surely were built around and
        incorporated into the town  as it grew.

[7] This  house still exsists and is known as the  Fishpond  House.
        The  origin  of this name stems from a tin basin located  on
        the roof and used to catch rain water.  This house is best
        known  for its use during the early years of the Civil War as
        General P.G.T. Beauregard's headquarters.

[8] John W. Reps,  Views and Viewmakers of Urban America,
        Lithographers  of Towns an Cities in the United States and
        Canada, Notes on  Artists  and Publishers and a Union Catalog
        of Their Work, 1825-1925.  University Press of Missouri.
        Columbia, 1984. 18.

[9] Ibid.

[10] Ibid., 216.


CHAPTER V -

[1]  William  C. Davis, editor and William A. Frassants, Photographic
        Consultant. A Photographic Portrait of the Civil War, Vol. II.
        Little, Brown and Co. Boston, Toronto, 1986.

[2] William  C. Davis, editor.The  War Moves West, Volume   of the
        Image of War.    Doubleday and Co., Inc.  Garden City, New
        Jersey, 1982.   321  and 327.  Howard and Hall's photograph
        gallery was located at the western end of the Tishomingo
        Hotel.

[3] Harper's  Weekly,  June 21, 1862.  From the collection  of  the
        North East Mississippi Museum Association.

[4] Margaret  Greene  Rogers.  Civil War  Corinth  1861-1865.   The
        Rankin Printery.  Corinth, Mississippi, 1987.  40.

[5] Frank  Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 21, 1862, from  the
        collection of the North East Mississippi Museum Association.

[6] Benson  J. Lossing, Pictorial History of the Civil War  in  the
        United States.  T. Belknap, Hartford, CT.  1868.  293.

[7] William  C. Davis, editor. Shadows of the Storm, Volume One of the
        Image of War 1861-1865. Doubleday and Co. Inc.  Garden  City,
        New Jersey, 1981. 320.

[8] By  1872 this building was gone because in that year Abe  Ruble
        built  a three story brick department store on this  site.
        This building was in turn torn down in the early 1960's.

[9] Battles  and Leaders of the Civil War, Grant and  Lee  edition.
        Volume II, Part II.  The Century Co. New York,  1884.  737.

[10] Photograph  in  the collection of the  North  East  Mississippi
        Museum Collection, Corinth, Mississippi.  Used by permission.

[11] Margaret  Greene  Rogers,  Civil War  Corinth  1861-1865.   The
        Rankin Printery. Corinth, Mississippi, 1987.  18.

[12] This early date could explain the obvious addition to the north
        side of the building shown by Miller.  This addition was
        probably built after the railroad boom to accomodate extra
        guests. Miller separates  the north four bays on the west side
        of  the building from  the two south bays by a faint pencil
        line.  He also labels this addition as being a "bad color".

[13] The building probably burned in the fire of December 1924 which
        destroyed  the entire block bounded by Fillmore, Foote,
        Franklin and  Waldron  (Main in 1860) streets.  This  fire
        spread across Fillmore street and burned the Post Office which
        was then rebuilt in  a  larger style the following year.  It
        is very likely this same fate befell the Moss House.

[14] The  Photographic  History of the Civil War.  In  Ten  Volumes.
        Volume  Seven, Prisons and Hospitals.  Francis  Trevelyn
        Miller, editor  in chief, Robert S. Lanier, Managing Editor.
        The Review of Reviews.  New York, 1912.  233.

[15] The wings were probably demolished by the Confederates and  the
        brick  used to build fortifications to defend the city  from
        attack. Beulah Price.  "Those Missing Wings on Corona
        College", The Daily Corinthian.  Wednesday, October 28, 1981.
        Page 1-D.

[16] Ibid.

[17] Corona  College was destroyed the day the Union Army  left
        Corinth  on January 25, 1864.  Mrs. Don Watkins.   "Corona
        College was  Symbolic  of Dreams of the Old South".
        Commercial Appeal. Memphis, Tennessee, July 17, 1949.

[18] Harper's  Weekly, June 21, 1862.  Collection of the North  East
        Mississippi Museum.  Used by permission.

[19] Beson  J. Lossing.  Pictorial History of the Civil War  in  the
        United States. Volume II. T. Belknap. Hartford, Ct.  1868.
        288.

[20] From  Sumter to Shiloh, Battles and Leaders of the  Civil  War.
        A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc.  1956.  580.

[21] Photograph in the collection of the Tennessee State Library and
        Archives, 403 7th Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee.

[22] William  C. Davis, editor.The  War  Moves West, Volume  of the
        Image of  War,  1861-1865. Doubleday and Co. Inc.  Garden
        City, New Jersey, 1981.  327.

[23] Photograph  in  the collection of the  North  East  Mississippi
        Museum.  Used by permission.

[24] Benson  J. Lossing.  Pictorial History of the Civil War in  the
        United States. Volume II.  T. Belknap.  Hartford, CT.  1868.
        295.

[25] From  Sumter to Shiloh, Battles and Leaders of the  Civil  War.
        Published by A.S. Barnes and Co. Inc.  1956.

[26] Photograph  from  the North East Mississippi Museum.   Used  by
        permission.

[27] William  C. Davis, editor.The  Image  of  War, Volume  III,  The
        Embattled  Confederacy. Doubleday and Co. Inc.  Garden  City,
        New Jersey.  1982.  353.

[28] Photograph  in  the collection of the  North  East  Mississippi
        Museum.   The  author is indebted to the museum's  curator,
        Mrs. Margaret Greene Rogers, for identifying this 1880's
        photograph as being the Allen House.

[29] From  Sumter to Shiloh, Battles and Leaders of the  Civil  War.
        Published by A. S. Barnes and Co. Inc.  1956.

[30] Photograph  in  the collection of the  North  East  Mississippi
        Museum.  Used by permission.

[31] Copies  of  these  photographs are located at  the  North  East
        Mississippi Museum.  Used by permission.


CHAPTER VI -

[1] Williams, Cross City, 29.

[2] This store was also the location of the  local telegraph office
        as can be determined from the telegraph pole Miller shows next
        to the building.  He shows wires running from the pole into a
        second story window.

[3] There  are no photographs made by the proprietors of this
        picture gallery known to exsist.

[4] Holandsworth,  "History  of Old  Tishomingo  County",   Corinth
        Herald,  25.

[5] Ibid.

[6] This information was obtained by Mrs. Margaret Greene Rogers in
        her research.  Mrs. Rogers is curator for the North East
        Mississippi Museum in Corinth, Mississippi.

[7] Holandsworth, History of Old Tishomingo County, 20.

[8] Ibid., 25.

[9] Ibid., 20.

[10] This second county courthouse burned in 1917.  The 1917  county
        courthouse  still in use today is the third courthouse to
        occupy this site.

[11] Ibid., 2.

[12] Holly Springs and Oxford are used as examples because they have
        the  best  developed and preserved courtsquares of this  type
        in north  Mississippi.   Ripley,  Tippah county (1836)  also
        has  a square laid out in this fashion.

[13] Leland  M. Roth.  A Concise History of  American  Architecture.
        Harper and Row. New York, San Francisco, London, 1980. 117.

[14] C. Ford Peatross.  William Nichols, Architect.  The  University
        of Alabama Art Gallery.  The University of Alabama, 1979.  45.

[15] Mrs. Elbert Price. "The Story of Corona College" . The
        Corinthian. Corinth, Mississippi.  March 12, 1932.

[16] The  History  of  Alcorn County,  Mississippi.   Alcorn  County
        Historical Association, 1983, 7.

[17] Excerpt  from Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson's Journal as  quoted  by
        Dawn  Alexander  in  her Master's Thesis,Corona  College  as
        an Example of Antebellum Southern Education.  University of
        Mississippi,  1992.   11.  This  thesis gives a wonderfully
        detailed account of the curiculum and daily life at this
        school.

[18] Ibid.

[19] "The  Story of Corona College", The Corinthian.  Corinth,
        Mississippi, March 12, 1932.


CHAPTER VII -

[1] Interview  with  Mrs. Margaret Greene Rogers,  Curator  of  the
        North East Mississippi Museum.   Corinth, Mississippi.

[2] A.J.  Downing, The Architecture of Country Houses.   New  York.
        Dover  Publications,  Inc.  1969 republication of  original
        1850 edition by D. Appleton and Company.  Fig. 47.

[3] William  H. Ranlett.  The Architect, Volume I.  New  York.   Da
        Capo Press, 1976.  Reprint of the 1849-1851 edition published
        by Dewitt and Daveport, New York.  Plate 38.

[4] A.J.Downing.   The Architecture of Country Houses.   New  York.
        Dover  Publications Inc., 1969 reprint of 1850 edition
        published by D. Appleton and Company.  300, fig. 130.

[5] These four houses are houses that have retained enough of their
        original  appearance  to be recognized  from  Miller's
        sketches. Other  houses  sketched by Miller may still exsist
        in  a greatly altered  state.  One such house is the house of
        Reverend Rogers (page  four).   This  house still exsists but
        after many later additions  and alterations is totally
        unrecognizable. Many more of  these houses may exist in
        similar altered circumstances.

[6] The  information  concerning the "original" plan of  the  house
        comes from an interview with Mrs. Rosemary Williams, the
        current owner  of  the house.  She described the plan  as  her
        husband's grandmother remembered it before the alterations of
        the 1930's. Her husband's family has owned the house since
        1866.

[7] This very general date is all that the author has been able  to
        find at the present time.  No published descriptions of the
        house exist  that  describe  its appearance  before  the
        1930's. All information about the house came from Mrs.
        Rosemary Williams.

[8] Today  this house is located on Fillmore Street, in the  middle
        of  the block between Bunch Street to the south,  Gloster
        Street to the north and Franklin Street to the east.  Miller's
        notes describe this house as being on the corner of Bunch
        street east  of Franklin.   Miller's  directions place the
        house a block  to the east of its present location.  If
        Miller's directions are  correct, then  the house must have
        been moved or the street names changed. There is no record of
        the house ever having been moved or the steet names in
        question having been changed, however,  so the likely answer
        is that Miller simply got confused.  If, however, the house
        was moved, then this could explain the early change in its
        plan from a L shape to its current rectangle plan.

[9] If the Inge house was the inspiration for the change it
        probably  was  done before the Hoshall alterations  because
        the Inge house  burned in December, 1924.  If the portico was
        changed by Hoshall  it was probably made to improve the
        proportions of  the facade.

[10].It has been suggested that the yellow color that this and  many
        other  doors  in  1860 Corinth were painted might  have  been
        an attempt  to emulate oak graining.  Unfortunately, no
        examples  of this  type  of graining remain in Corinth.  The
        door of the  Oak Home was  painted  yellow until fairly
        recently. In Rosemary Taylor Williams  Cross City Chronicle
        there is a photograph of this house with its door painted a
        primary yellow color.

[11] These sketches show Miller's lack of consistent scale.  If  the
        smallest outbuilding was indeed the size it appears then it
        must have  been  a doghouse because it was too small  to  be
        anything else.   The fact that it had a chimney seems to
        indicate that it served some important function.

[12] Rosemary Taylor Williams, Cross City Chronicle, 33.

[13] Benson  J. Lossing.  Pictorial History of the Civil War in  the
        United States. Volume II.  Hartford, Ct.  T. Belknap, 1868,
        288.

[14] Beulah  M. D'Olive Price.  Some Notes on The Curlee  House  and
        Grounds.    Corinth, Mississippi.  1966. 1.


[15] See comment page 33.