Alice Austen McMurran journal, 1856-1889 (bulk 1856-1878).

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Alice Austen McMurran journal, 1856-1889 (bulk 1856-1878).

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This typescript copy of the journal of Alice "Alie" Austen McMurran recounts her marriage in Maryland and subsequent life in antebellum Natchez, Miss.; her life in Natchez and Maryland during the Civil War; political and social events at the close of the war; and family affairs in Mississippi and Maryland during the three years after the war and sporadically recorded through 1878.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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McMurran, John T., Jr.

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McMurran, Alie Austen, d. 1899.

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John T. McMurran, Jr., son of John T. McMurran Sr. (1801-1866), a lawyer and state senator in Natchez, Miss., and the former Mary Louise Turner (1814-1891), married Alice "Alie" Austen (d. 1899) of Baltimore County, Md., in 1856. They resided at Riverside Plantation in Wilkinson County, Miss., until the Civil War. John McMurran enlisted in a local artillery unit but was discharged in 1862 for deafness. In 1864 he worked as a clerk for the federal war department in Washington, D.C. The couple had...

McMurran family.

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Austin family.

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Dodds, Loring, b. ca. 1887,

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