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James Lusk Alcorn.

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 190.00 USD
James Lusk Alcorn.
Of Miss. Confederate Brig. Gen., captured in Ark., 1862. A fascinating and tragic figure, Reconstruction Sen. and Gov. of Miss., leader of Scalawags, and founder of Miss. levee system. Bitter rival of Adelbert Ames (see following lot). A.N.S., Eagle's Nest, Miss. (his plantation), May 18, 1889. "In response to the request, I take pleasure in presenting this, my Photograph 'not present], to Trinity Historical Society, at Dallas, Texas." Penned on unusual glazed sheet with embossed polka dots on verso! Mount toned to tan, holograph card with minor colorless waterstain evidence at blank upper left, else fine. "Although a former slaveholder, he characterized slavery as 'a cancer upon the body of the Nation' and expressed the gratification which he and many other Southerners felt over its destruction"--Congressional Globe, 42nd Congress, p. 3424.