Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

1-8-2005

SSRN Discipline

HIST Subject Matter eJournals; Legal Scholarship Network; *Humanities - Forthcoming Areas; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Law School Research Papers - Public Law & Legal Theory; Humanities Network; History

Abstract

Abstract of Paul M Pruitt Jr and David I Durham editors The Private Life of a New South Lawyer Stephens Crooms 18751876 Journal Tuscaloosa University of Alabama School of Law 2002 Xi 91 pages index illustrations Occasional Publications of the Bounds Law Library Number ThreeThis book consists of an edited edition of a journal kept in 18751876 by Cicero Stephens Croom 18391884 accompanied by an essay Stephens Croom A Biographical and Critical Introduction written by the editors Long preserved by the Croom family of Mobile this journal details Crooms education Confederate service and early legal career Crooms journal is of interest to legal historians first because of his connection to the Montgomery Law School begun in the late 1850s by Wade Keyes 18211879 Croom further describes the practice of law in New South Mobile mentioning many notable practitioners He gives an assessment of the judicial politics of Reconstruction covering the bankruptcy of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Like many of the Democrats of his day he had harsh words for northernborn Richard Busteed who served as federal district court judge in Alabama from 1863 to 1874 Crooms journal is also notable for its treatment of the literary and social world of postbellum Mobile In their essay and in notes to the journal Durham and Pruitt explore these aspects of Crooms life noting in particular his relationships with the novelists Elizabeth Croom Bellamy his sister and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson his wifes cousin

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