In this memoir, Buck Donaldson recounts his childhood in rural Louisiana and his service in the U. S. Navy during World War II.

This collection consists of a transcript of an interview with Buck Donaldson by Kurt Piehler and Tiffany Davis conducted on October 21, 2002 in Knoxville, Tennessee as part of the Veteran's Oral History Project. In the interview, Donaldson speaks about his childhood in the Depression, his experiences in the Navy during World War II, and his postwar life as a missionary in Africa.

This document is a fragment of a letter that George Washington Campbell wrote to Andrew Jackson. The first paragraph mentions that William C. C. Claiborne's appointment as governor of the Territory of Orleans (later the state of Louisiana) has not yet been confirmed, and the second lists the managers of the impeachment as Joseph Nicholson, Randolph (which could refer to either John or Thomas Mann), Caesar Rodney, Peter Early, John Boyle, and Roger Nelson.

This collection consists of a commission, dated October 22, 1807, from the Governor of the Territory of Orleans, William C.C. Claiborne, appointing Paul D'Arcantel as Justice of the Peace for the Parish of New Orleans.