Saying Goodbye to Local Historian

Gordon Cotton was an invaluable member of the Vicksburg community. He was an author, educator, and historian whose works helped to tell the story of Vicksburg and the area. The library has many of his works available for checkout:

·         Of prim­i­tive ­faith and order: a his­to­ry of the Mis­sis­sip­pi Prim­i­tive Bap­tist Church, 1780-1974

·         A history of the Waterways Experiment Station, 1929-1979

·         Asbury : a history      

·         Vicksburg: ­Southern Stories of the Siege

·         Vicksburg and the war

·         Yankee Bullets, Rebel Rations

·         From the pen of a she-rebel: the Civil War diary of Emilie Riley McKinley           

·         15 China and other tales

·         Like a hideous night­mare: Vicksburg ­women remember the horrors or the Civil War     

·         Vicksburg       

·         Vicksburg: Town and Country

Vicksburg under glass: a collection of early photographs from the glass negatives of J. Mack­ Moore