JAMES LUSK ALCORN PAPERS, #5, 1850-1880
Chiefly letters written by Alcorn, brigadier general of Mississippi state forces,
Republican governor, and U.S. senator, to his wife. Letters discuss Union soldiers freeing
slaves (1862); Alcorn's relations with slaves and freed blacks
(1862-1864); the marriage of Northern white
women to blacks (1865); and the status of free blacks in the South
(1865). The collection also contains two plantation inventories
and Alcorn's diary, which contain slave records (1855-1865).
