In 1862, During the Civil War,
President Lincoln and Congress created the position of commissioner of
Internal Revenue and enacted an income tax to pay war expenses. After the
war ended in April, 1865, the State of Mississippi was divided into three
tax districts. These tax records are from December of 1865 to December of
1866. The records give insight into the lives and livelihood of our
ancestors in the first year after the war. The carpetbaggers came to
Mississippi and taxed everything that year they could lay their hands on
from 10% of income to anything of value our ancestors might have managed
to save. Since the Civil War fell between Census years, these tax lists
are an invaluable resource of names, plantation names and business names.
We will be adding to these records as more are transcribed so check back
often. Many counties in Mississippi were
not yet in existence in 1866 so be sure to check carefully.
Also some counties were counted together. Some counties we have been
unable to locate tax lists for yet.
County Table
|
District 1 |
District 2 |
District 3 |
|
Adams |
Attala |
Bolivar |
|
Claiborne |
Carroll |
Calhoun |
|
Copiah
|
Choctaw-Webster |
Chickasaw |
|
Covington-Lawrence |
Clarke |
Coahoma |
|
Franklin |
Hinds
|
Desoto (parts are listed as
division 5 while others are division 18) |
|
Gulf Coast - Hancock - Harrison
- Jackson |
Holmes |
Itawamba |
|
Jefferson |
Jasper |
Lafayette |
|
Jones (Jones was
named Davis from 1865-1869) |
Kemper |
Marshall |
|
Marion |
Lauderdale |
Monroe |
|
Perry |
Leake |
Panola |
|
Pike |
Lowndes |
Pontotoc |
|
Simpson |
Madison |
Sunflower |
|
Wilkinson |
Neshoba |
Tallahatchie |
|
|
Newton |
Tishomingo |
|
|
Noxubee |
Yalobusha |
|
|
Oktibbeha |
|
|
|
Rankin |
|
|
|
Scott |
|
|
|
Smith |
|
|
|
Warren |
|
|
|
Winston |
|
|
|
Yazoo |
|
