Lot of 2. Portrait of Mississippi governor James Alcorn. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. 23.75 x 29 in. (sight), framed to 35 x 39 in. MOSBY, John Singleton (1833-1916). Mosby's War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns. Boston: George A. Jones & Co., 1887. 8vo. Tissue-guarded engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. (Some spotting). Publisher's dark green cloth with blindstamped decoration and gilt titles. (Split interior hinges, some wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION. A Civil War memoir from Confederate cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby, known as the "Gray Ghost" earned from his uncanny knack for evading Union capture. He commanded the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry known as Mosby's Rangers. After the war, he resumed his law practice and became a Republican politician, supporting President Grant. He would later serve as the American Consul to Hong Kong. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author to Governor Alcorn:"Presented to / Hon. J.L. Alcorn / by the Author- / John S. Mosby." James Alcorn (1816-1894) opposed secession for economic concerns and his prescient belief that the South would be devastated by the North. Despite his reservations, he did join the Confederacy and was appointed as a brigadier general in the Mississippi state militia mostly involved in recruitment and garrison duty. He was taken prisoner in Arkansas in 1862, paroled, and he returned to his plantation where he continued to raise troops, though he also surreptitiously sold cotton to the North, maintaining his wealth through the war. Post-war, he joined the Republican party, supporting suffrage for freedmen, endorsed the 14th Amendment, and was a close political ally with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in congress. When governor from 1870-1871, Alcorn was a modernizer who supported public schools and founded the first African American land grant college, now known as Alcorn State University, and arranged for Revels to become its first president. In 1871, he resigned the governorship early to assume the US senate seat vacated by Revels. There he opposed Republican attempts to end segregation, resisted actions to suppress the Ku Klux Klan, denounced the cotton tax, and advocated removing the political disabilities of white Southerners. He again ran for governor of Mississippi in 1873 but was defeated by Republican Adelbert Ames after which Alcorn mostly withdrew from public life.
Lot of 2. Portrait of Mississippi governor James Alcorn. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. 23.75 x 29 in. (sight), framed to 35 x 39 in. MOSBY, John Singleton (1833-1916). Mosby's War Reminiscences and Stuart's Cavalry Campaigns. Boston: George A. Jones & Co., 1887. 8vo. Tissue-guarded engraved portraits with facsimile signatures. (Some spotting). Publisher's dark green cloth with blindstamped decoration and gilt titles. (Split interior hinges, some wear to extremities). FIRST EDITION. A Civil War memoir from Confederate cavalry battalion commander John S. Mosby, known as the "Gray Ghost" earned from his uncanny knack for evading Union capture. He commanded the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry known as Mosby's Rangers. After the war, he resumed his law practice and became a Republican politician, supporting President Grant. He would later serve as the American Consul to Hong Kong. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author to Governor Alcorn:"Presented to / Hon. J.L. Alcorn / by the Author- / John S. Mosby." James Alcorn (1816-1894) opposed secession for economic concerns and his prescient belief that the South would be devastated by the North. Despite his reservations, he did join the Confederacy and was appointed as a brigadier general in the Mississippi state militia mostly involved in recruitment and garrison duty. He was taken prisoner in Arkansas in 1862, paroled, and he returned to his plantation where he continued to raise troops, though he also surreptitiously sold cotton to the North, maintaining his wealth through the war. Post-war, he joined the Republican party, supporting suffrage for freedmen, endorsed the 14th Amendment, and was a close political ally with Hiram Revels, the first African American to serve in congress. When governor from 1870-1871, Alcorn was a modernizer who supported public schools and founded the first African American land grant college, now known as Alcorn State University, and arranged for Revels to become its first president. In 1871, he resigned the governorship early to assume the US senate seat vacated by Revels. There he opposed Republican attempts to end segregation, resisted actions to suppress the Ku Klux Klan, denounced the cotton tax, and advocated removing the political disabilities of white Southerners. He again ran for governor of Mississippi in 1873 but was defeated by Republican Adelbert Ames after which Alcorn mostly withdrew from public life.
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