J.L. Alcorn Papers, 1850-1949

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J.L. Alcorn Papers, 1850-1949

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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. 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.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Alcorn, J. L. (James Lusk), 1816-1894

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James Lusk Alcorn served as governor of Mississippi from 1870-1871. From the guide to the James Lusk Alcorn Letter, 1871, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) Mississippi resident. From the description of Letter, 1871. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31187631 U.S. senator from and governor of Mississippi. From the description of J.L. Alcorn correspondence, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat reco...