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                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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                    JAMES LUSK ALCORN PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Planter, brigadier general of Mississippi state
           forces during the Civil War, Republican governor, and
           U.S. senator.
               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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Alcorn, Amelia Walton Glover.
   Alcorn, James Lusk, 1816-1894.
   Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--
       Correspondence.
   Confederate States of America--Politics and government.
   Confederate states of America--Social conditions.
   Diaries.
   Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
   Mississippi--Governors.
   Mississippi--Politics and government--1865-1950.
   Plantation life--Mississippi.
   Plantation owners--Diaries.
   Reconstruction--Mississippi.
   Secession.

Size:  39 items (5 folders).

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. P. D. Russell of Memphis,
               Tenn., before 1940, and purchased from Carnegie
               Book Shop of New York, N.Y., in March 1968, and
               Cohasco of New York, N.Y., in November 1975.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.