EDWARD MCCRADY L'ENGLE PAPERS, #425, 1834-1907
Legal, business, political, and family correspondence of L'Engle, a Jacksonville, Florida,
railroad president, lawyer, and Confederate Army officer. Papers dated before 1866 often pertain to plantation life and slavery and postwar papers
contain materials reflecting the political opinions of the conservative white element in
Florida towards Reconstruction. Included are letters expressing the difficulty in acquiring
slave labor (1857) and the fear of slave uprisings in Florida
(1865).