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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Lorenzo Morgan Papers, #4319-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcriptions of the letters available.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Ms. Wayne Stokes Goodall of Pittsboro, N.C., June 1982.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century.
• Howard County (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Missouri--Social conditions.
• Morgan family.
• Morgan, James Lorenzo, b. 1830.
• Morgan, W. H. (William Henry), b. 1836.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

James Lorenzo Morgan (born 1830) was a native of Campbell County, Va. He moved with his family to Glasgow, Howard County, Mo., where he was a tobacco manufacturer. From 1864 to 1865, Morgan lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., returning to Glasgow, Mo., thereafter.

The collection includes correspondence and other materials relating to James Lorenzo Morgan. The letters, mostly from Morgan to a friend, 1863-1865, pertain to the deteriorating social conditions in the Missouri countryside; Brooklyn, N.Y., where Morgan lived in 1864 and 1865; and the life of Morgan's brother, W. H. Morgan, in Union prisons in South Carolina. The papers also include certificates of commissioning and materials relating to Morgan family history.