TY - GEN AU - Claiborne,J.F.H. AU - Claiborne,Willis Herbert AU - Garrett,Henry A. TI - J.F.H. Claiborne papers, KW - Brown, Albert Gallatin, KW - Gwin, William McKendree, KW - Johnson, Richard M. KW - Parker, John A. KW - Prentiss, S. S. KW - Walker, Robert J. KW - Claiborne family. KW - Bacon, Azel Backus KW - McRea, James B. KW - Confederate States of America KW - Army of Tennessee KW - Army KW - Mississippi Cavalry Regiment KW - Democratic Party (U.S.) KW - Choctaw Indians KW - Claims KW - Forest policy KW - United States KW - Indians of North America KW - Government relations KW - Plantations KW - Mississippi KW - Adams County KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) KW - Slavery KW - Slave-trade KW - Timber KW - Louisiana KW - Missionary Ridge (Tenn. and Ga.) KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Tennessee KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - 19th century KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Description and travel KW - Editors KW - itoamc KW - Historians KW - Representatives, U.S. Congress N1 - Open to research; Microfilm edition available; no. 17,880; Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division; Washington, D.C.; Library of Congress Photoduplication Service; 1980 N2 - Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, business records, legal and financial documents, genealogical charts, and other papers relating principally to Democratic Party politics at the state and national level prior to the Civil War, a visit to Washington, D.C. (1824-1825), Claiborne's work as editor of several Democratic newspapers, his role as a member of the U.S. Board of Choctaw commissioners in the settlement of claims by the Choctaw Indians, his service as U.S. timber agent for Louisiana and Mississippi, slave transactions and other business matters as a plantation owner in Adams County, Miss., and personal and family affairs; Includes a diary (1864) of Claiborne's son, Willis Herbert Claiborne, kept while serving with the Army of Tennessee at Missionary Ridge, Tenn., and a diary (1861-1869) of Claiborne's son-in-law, Henry A. Garrett, relating to his service in the Jefferson Davis Legion of the Mississippi Cavalry, to Reconstruction, and to personal and business affairs as a plantation owner in Adams County, Miss; Correspondents include Azel Backus Bacon, Albert Gallatin Brown, William McKendree Gwin, Richard M. Johnson, James B. McRea, John A. Parker, Seargent S. Prentiss, and Robert J. Walker ER -