Moses and St. John Richardson Liddell family papers, 1813-1919 (bulk 1838-1870).

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Moses and St. John Richardson Liddell family papers, 1813-1919 (bulk 1838-1870).

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Bulk of the material is that of St. John Richardson Liddell, Confederate officer and son of Moses Liddell. Papers consist of plantation records, personal correspondence, slave lists, business and legal papers, account books, notebooks, and plantation diaries. Early papers of Moses Liddell include his appointment as justice of the peace, notary public (1813); slave and land sales; and family correspondence. Correspondence between Moses, his son, St. John Richardson, and son-in-law, John Hampden Randolph, reflect plantation economy of Louisiana and Mississippi. In letters to his son Moses offered his observations and suggestions on every aspect of plantation management. Correspondence also contains letters of the Metcalfe, Randolph, Roper, Richardson and Liddell family members concerning family matters, physical collapse of John Quincy Adams, gold mining conditions in California, and slavery, including an account of a slave rebellion (July 1, 1841). Post Civil War agreements with freedmen, circulars of the Freedmen's Bureau and account books reflect Liddell's attempt to revive his planting interest with the use of freedmen. Business and legal papers of the late 1860's attest to the breakdown of the pre-war economic and social system. Later papers are the personal and business correspondence of Moses J. Liddell, who moved to Montana and became a member of the Montana Supreme Court in 1889. Several letters, newspapers articles, and legal papers relate to a feud between St. John Liddell and Charles Jones of Elmly Plantation, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana. Manuscript volumes consist of cashbooks, bank books, cotton record book, lumber record book, plantation notebooks, and an incomplete manuscript of LIDDELL'S RECORD OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA 1860-1866.

6.5 linear ft.39 mss. vols.11 microfilm reels. 35 mm.187 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm.

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Liddell family.

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Liddell, St. John Richardson

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St. John Richardson Liddell, a prominent planter of Llanada Plantation, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He commanded a division of the Army of Tennessee at the Battle of Chickamauga, Ga. Sept. 1863, assumed command of the District of Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana August 2, 1864, and later commanded the defense of Fort Blakely, Ala. in 1865. He resumed his plantation work at Llanada at the end of the war. ...

Metcalfe family.

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Roper family.

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Randolph, John H. (John Hampden), 1813-1883.

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John Hampden Randolph was born in Virginia and moved with his family to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1819. There he practiced law and began working as a cotton planter. In 1823, he was appointed as a circuit court judge in Mississippi. Randolph married Emily Jane Liddell, daughter of Moses Liddell, in 1837. In 1841, the Randolphs moved to Iberville Parish, Louisiana, where John Randolph owned and operated sugar plantations Forest Home, Nottoway, Blythewood, and Bayou Goula. He began sugar p...

Liddell, Moses, b. 1785.

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Moses Liddell, born 1785, was a prominent planter of Elmsley Plantation, Woodville, Mississippi. In the mid 1840's he sold Elmsley and relocated nearer to his son, St. John Richardson Liddell of Llanada Plantation, Catahoula Parish, La. St. John, also a prominent planter, served as brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He resumed his plantation work at Llanada at the end of the war, and was fatally shot by Charles Jones on Feb. 14, 1870 after a long standing feud. ...

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