Biography/History:

Edward Clark was an attorney from Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 1885, Clark was appointed assistant secretary of the interior by L. Q. C. Lamar during the administration of President Grover Cleveland.

Scope and Content:

The papers of the Clark family include photocopies of correspondence; financial, legal, and military records; and miscellaneous items dating from the 1840s to the 1890s. The collection concerns Mississippi politics before, during, and after the Civil War. Of particular interest is correspondence between Edward Clark and L. Q. C. Lamar and Edward Cary Walthall.

Series Identification:

1. Correspondence. 1846-1893; n.d. 103 items.

This series includes photocopies of correspondence between Edward Clark and L. Q. C. Lamar and Edward Cary Walthall, as well as miscellaneous Clark family correspondence.

2. Financial Records. n.d. 3 items.

This series includes a photocopy of an agreement dividing assets of the law firm of Edward Clark and L. Q. C. Lamar.

3. Legal Records. n.d. 3 items.

This series includes photocopies of the charter of the Vicksburg Bar Association and a joint resolution of the Mississippi Senate and House of Representatives endorsing the administration of President Franklin Pierce.

4. Military Records. 1861-1870. 14 items.

This series includes photocopies of a circular regarding the implementation of the Sequestration Act of the Confederate States of America passed in 1861; a pamphlet containing orders of the Military Board of the State of Mississippi; a military ordinance authorizing the governor of Mississippi to transfer volunteers to service in the army of the Confederate States of America; General Orders Number 46 appointing Absalom M. West brigadier general of the Army of Mississippi; General Orders Number 7 regarding the organization of the volunteer cavalry; General Orders Number 23 regarding planters and freedmen; a list of companies in the Fourth and Sixth Regiments; a roll of the Lowry Rifles of Mississippi; and maps of Confederate battlefields in Mississippi.

5. Miscellany. 1887-1890. 7 items.

This series includes photocopies of miscellaneous items such as a program from a reunion of Confederate veterans; a speech delivered by Senator Edward Cary Walthall at the Confederate monument in Jackson, Mississippi; and excerpts from a play entitled "Joan of Arc."