HARRY ST. JOHN DIXON PAPERS, #2375, 1855-1904
Personal correspondence and diaries of Dixon, native of Mississippi, Confederate officer,
and California lawyer. The collection consists chiefly of correspondence between Dixon and
his parents near Greenville, Mississippi, and in Demopolis, Alabama, discussing the Fugitive
Slave Act (1860); the "fate of negroes who followed enemy's
columns," (1862); the faithfulness of slaves during the war (1863); the disinclination of former slaves to sign unspecified
"contracts" in Alabama (1867); the refusal of former slaves to work
for former slaveholders (1867); former slaves as sharecroppers
(1869); blacks wearing Union Army uniforms (1869); and the opinions of whites toward blacks following the war (1869). Microfilm available.