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Shackleford, James McBride, 1810-1878. James McBride Shackelford papers, 1819-1887.

Title: James McBride Shackelford papers, 1819-1887.

Papers consist of family and business correspondence, financial records, and other items. Family correspondence (1819-1887) concerns personal and family affairs, James M. Shackelford's remarriage (1874), a portrait, and other matters. Correspondents include Eliza A. Shackelford, poet Anna P. (Shackelford) Dinnies of New Orleans (La.), artist J.B. Irving, Jr., Thomas Ashby, and William W. Harllee. Included are two letters (1819) from Anthony Bonneau Shackelford to his sweetheart Jane H. Lee. Business correspondence (1865-1874) consists of letterpress copybooks containing letters concerning James M. Shackelford's dealings in corporate and municipal bonds for many South Carolina cities, the South Carolina Railroad Co., and other businesses. Correspondents include [J.] Eli Gregg of Mars Bluff, S.C., Thomas C. Jenkins, Charles T. Lowndes, Pelzer, Rogers, & Co., Enoch Pratt of Boston, Mass., General Daniel Tyler of New York, N.Y., George F. Tyler of Philadelphia, Pa., W.B. Williams, J. Legare Yates, and many others. Financial records include brokerage accounts, an account sales book, daybooks, expense accounts, personal accounts (1864) of James M. Shackelford, check stubs, and a trust estate account book (1850-1866). Other items include estate papers (1853) of Elizabeth A. Shackelford (d. 1853), insurance policies (1870's), and a copy of the will (1877) of James McBride Shackelford.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

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Magrath, A. G. (Andrew Gordon), 1813-1893. A. G. Magrath papers, 1861-1873 (bulk 1864-1865) [manuscript].

Title: A. G. Magrath papers, 1861-1873 (bulk 1864-1865) [manuscript].

Chiefly correspondence, 1864-1865, during Magrath's tenure as governor of South Carolina, concerning military and economic problems of the South during the Civil War, military movements in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and other related topics. Correspondents include Gen. E.B.C. Cash, Gen. W.R. DeSaussure, Gen. W.W. Harlee, E.W. Marshall, Gen. J.G. Martin, Gen. W.R. Nance, Gov. F.W. Pickens, William Henry Prescott, and Gov. F.H. Watts.

ArchivalResource: 76 items.

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

Title: C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

Personal and business records of legal practice in Charleston, re politics, education, and Memminger's tenure as Sec. of Confederate Treasury; including 2 letters, 7 Mar. 1830 and 2 Dec. 1847, Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C., to Franklin Harper Elmore, re politics, railroad finances, and Elmore's joining a secessionist group in Walterboro, S.C.; letter, 16 June 1832, Charleston, S.C., to Gidion Higgins, East Haddam, Conn., re verdict in Higgins' legal case. Letter, 12 Nov. 1839, Charleston, to James M. Adams, Emory College, Covington, Ga., re membership in educational society; report, c. 1860, re public schools and teachers in Charleston; letter, 4 Apr. 1862, Richmond, Va., to Gen. William W. Harllee, Columbia, S.C., re defense of Georgetown and keeping slaves away from enemy; letter, 20 Jan. 1863, Confederate States Army Treasury Department, Richmond, Va., to Rev. James Petigru Boyce, Columbia, S.C., re issuing bonds to bolster Confederate treasury. Two letters, 20 Apr. 1863 and 12 Nov. 1863, Richmond, Va., to Robert Woodward Barnwell and George Frederick Holmes, re reaction to Confederate taxes and labor problems within Confederate Treasury; 4 letters, 23 Aug. 1876, 3 Sept. 1878, 6 Sept. 1880, and 17 Sept. 1881, Flat Rock, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., to Edward McCrady, re election campaign of 1876 and Protestant Episcopal Church; and volume, 1857, Charleston, S.C., by Marcus Lafayette Byrn, "The repository of wit and humor ..." Also including microfilm (R-240), of papers, 1803-1915, held at UNC with guide, 1966, to film, including letters, 1803-1812, from members of Memminger family in Germany; and letters, 1854, to his wife, Mary Wilkinson Memminger, from Europe; topics include secession; Confederate Treasury; papers of Thomas B. Memminger, Confederate surgeon; Reconstruction; and account book, 1838-1855, of expenses at summer home at Flat Rock, N.C.; and personal letters of Tracy family of Macon, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 34 items and 1 volume.

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