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[Identification of item], in the Walter T. Scott Papers, #1887-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Families--Louisiana--Social life and customs.
• Judges--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• New Orleans (La.)--History.
• Scott, Katherine Kirkwood.
• Scott, Walter T., 1827-1879.
• Ship Island (Miss.)--History--19th century.
• Slaves--Legal status, laws, etc.--Louisiana.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Lawyer and judge of New Orleans, La.

A four-volume diary of Walter T. Scott and an account of an incident in his life. The diary, April 1877-March 1878, describes Scott's daily family and judicial activities in New Orleans and includes reminiscences of his imprisonment at Ship Island, Miss., during the Civil War. "The Case of the Runaway Slave" is an account by Katherine Kirkwood Scott of how, in 1855, Scott secured the freedom of Salome or Sally Miller or Muller, a white woman who had been a slave from infancy.