James L. Alcorn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James L. Alcorn

Confederate Army general

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1816

Place of Birth: Golconda, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 19-Dec-1894

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About James L. Alcorn

  • James Lusk Alcorn (November 4, 1816 – December 19, 1894) was a Republican governor and a U.S.
  • senator during the Reconstruction of his adopted state of Mississippi. A moderate Republican, Alcorn engaged in a bitter rivalry with Radical Republican "carpetbagger" Adelbert Ames, who defeated him in the 1873 Mississippi gubernatorial race.
  • He briefly served as a brigadier general of Mississippi state troops in Confederate Army service during the early part of the American Civil War.
  • Among the Confederate generals who joined the post-Civil War Republican Party, only James Longstreet had been of higher rank than Alcorn.

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