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Size | 35 items |
Abstract | James L. Alcorn was a planter, brigadier general of Mississippi state forces during the Civil War, Republican governor, and U.S. senator. The collection includes letters from Alcorn to his wife, Amelia Walton (Glover) Alcorn, including fifteen Civil War letters, written from Mississippi and Kentucky; pre-war plantation records and Alcorn's diary (1879-1880) with short entries on the weather, farming, sale of produce, and social, family, and religious affairs. The correspondence chiefly concerns political conditions before and during the Civil War and reflects Alcorn's political thinking as an antisecessionist, Confederate general, and Republican governor of Mississippi. |
Creator | Alcorn, J. L. (James Lusk), 1816-1894. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, July 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Finding aid updated for digitization by Kathryn Michaelis, September 2010
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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James L. Alcorn was a planter, brigadier general of Mississippi state forces during the Civil War, Republican governor, and U.S. senator.
Back to TopThe collection includes letters from Alcorn to his wife, Amelia Walton (Glover) Alcorn, including fifteen Civil War letters, written from Mississippi and Kentucky; pre-war plantation records and Alcorn's diary (1879-1880) with short entries on the weather, farming, sale of produce, and social, family, and religious affairs. The correspondence chiefly concerns political conditions before and during the Civil War and reflects Alcorn's political thinking as an antisecessionist, Confederate general, and Republican governor of Mississippi.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Volume 1: Slave and property list, 1855-1861 |
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: Property schedule, 1850-1863 |
Folder 3 |
Volume 3: Diary, 1879-1880 |
Folder 4 |
1850-1949 |
Folder 5 |
Typed transcription of volumes 1-3 |