Title: Reminiscences of a Mississippi carpet-bagger
Description: After the Civil War, H.W. Warren, his brother, and another friend acquired a plantation in Leake County, Mississippi.  He presumably prospered, became a magistrate, performed the first legal marriage of African-Americans in that area, and eventually became Speaker of the Mississippi House, where he helped draft the new constitution of the state.
Subjects: Politics and government, Reconstruction
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 1865-1880