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De Bow, J. D. B. (James Dunwoody Brownson), 1820-1867. Papers, 1779-1915.

Title: Papers, 1779-1915.

Business and personal correspondence, diary, and other papers. Much of the material relates to De Bow's Review, which he founded and edited, and to De Bow's position as agent for the Confederacy's cotton and produce loan, with many letters to and from Christopher G. Memminger and George A. Trenholm concerning details of the loan. Includes early items apparently collected in connection with De Bow's statistical work, essays written while a student at Charleston College, lectures on temperance, and a scrapbook of accounts of Civil War campaigns. Correspondents include John W. Daniel, Charles E. Fenner, George Fitzhugh, Charles Gayarré, Alexander D. Von Humboldt, Freeman Hunt, Edmund Ruffin, William Gilmore Simms, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Maunsel White.

ArchivalResource: 1, 618 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19491448 View

Autograph File, M

Title: Autograph File, M

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01436/catalog View

Campbell, James B. (James Butler), 1808-1883. James Butler Campbell papers, 1814-1897.

Title: James Butler Campbell papers, 1814-1897.

Papers chiefly consist of legal documents and correspondence of James Butler Campbell; also included are his personal financial records and other items. Legal papers (1837-1883), including writs, affidavits, petitions, conveyances, indentures, trial minutes, and case-related correspondence and accounts, concern numerous civil and criminal cases, real estate transactions and disputes (many in Charleston, S.C.), bankruptcies, business partnerships and incorporations, estate settlements, slave sales and trials, violations of Confederate law, and other matters. Companies and individuals represented include William C. Bee & Co., the Cannonsboro Mill and Wharf Co., and Robert Adger. A group of documents (1851-1880) pertaining to the cotton trade and confiscations include a case involving Evan James Lide, a Darlington District (S.C.) plantation owner whose cotton was confiscated by the U.S. Treasury as Confederate contraband. Another group of documents (1863-1881) concern the operations and legal affairs of the Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. and other railroad companies. There are also papers (1861-1862) regarding sequestration of real estate and personal property, including slaves, owned in South Carolina by Northerners. Professional and personal correspondence (1833-1883) concerns family matters, politics, the Civil War, legislative affairs, legal cases, business interests, nullification, the career of Joel R. Poinsett, and other matters. Correspondents include Joel R. Poinsett, C.G. Memminger, Daniel Webster, William H. Trescot, and many others.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35916192 View

Confederate States of America collection, 1861-1865

Title: Confederate States of America collection 1861-1865

Correspondence and official documents originating from various CSA government departments and from individual Confederate states, 1861-65. Includes correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Confederate cabinet members and congressmen, and other officials, as well as official reports of Civil War battles and events, estimates of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, special orders, forms, passes, receipts, bonds, tax records, and other documents. While the bulk of the material is administrative in nature, many of the documents, such as tax records and discharge papers, concern particular individuals, and there are a few letters from private citizens, such as one to President Davis from two women who offer to go behind enemy lines. The collection also includes designs for an alternate Confederate flag.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Linear Feet: 2.30

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. ALS : to F.W. Pickens, 1861 Feb. 10.

Title: ALS : to F.W. Pickens, 1861 Feb. 10.

Concerns the metamorphosis of the Confederate Constitutional Convention into the Provisional Congress, and the debate over Fort Sumter.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525104 View

Bocock, Thomas S., 1815-1891. Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Title: Papers of Bocock and of the Bocock, Thornhill Christian, Stephens, Flood, Patteson, and Diuguid families of Buckingham and Appomattox counties, 1760-1897.

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, ledgers, and speeches. Letters to Bocock, 1840-1887, comprise almost half the collection. Most are from his constituents and concern routine matters such as pension and bounty claims, academy appointments, mail routes, requests for copies of documents and speeches, and for legal assistance. Topics of interest include a contested 1847 election with Henry P. Irving; the admission of California, and the Compromise of 1850; the Nashville Convention of 1850; slavery, abolition, and the ante-bellum South; the Whig, Democrat and American (Know Nothing) parties; the presidential elections of 1848, 1852, and 1880; and local Appomattox Co. politics. Many prominent figures of the day are mentioned including Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Cass, Douglas, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan, Hayes, and Louis Kossuth. Speeches on the tariff of 1842, the Wilmot Proviso, slavery, the Confederacy, and William Wilson Corcoran are included, as are a memorandum book, 1861-1866, of personal finances, papers from his chairmanship of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, a printed report on the Confederate Navy, and some legal and financial papers. The family papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers. Topics of interest include Buckingham Co. politics, slavery, the Civil War, the tanning business, the American Tract Society, pioneer life in Alabama and Missouri, and the administration of several estates. Letters of note mention the confiscation of arms in Appomattox Co. for naval use, the gift of McCormick Observatory to the University of Virginia, the California gold rush, and the use of slaves on military fortifications. Also included are a minute book of the New Hope Baptist Church, Augusta Co., Va. with many references to blacks, an 1830s physician's ledger, a Buckingham Co. tax register, 1832, and an 1830s diary / journal listing family events and home remedies.

ArchivalResource: 3000 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821332 View

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. ALS, 1862 September 13 : Richmond, VA, to Jefferson Davis.

Title: ALS, 1862 September 13 : Richmond, VA, to Jefferson Davis.

Memminger, Confederate Treasury Secretary writes to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy concerning financial matters. The letter denotes the South's difficulties in securing foreign exchange, the problems posed by the Union blackade and above all, the widespread Confederate hope that cotton could be used to pay the expenses of government and war.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 24.5 x 20.25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20503301 View

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. C. G. Memminger papers, 1803-1915.

Title: C. G. Memminger papers, 1803-1915.

Scattered papers, chiefly 1860-1868, of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, including letters, 1803-1812, from members of the Memminger family in Germany; letters, 1854, from Memminger to his wife, Mary Wilkinson Memminger, from Europe; correspondence relating to secession. Some official correspondence as secretary of the Confederate Treasury; papers of Thomas B. Memminger, Confederate army surgeon; papers concerning Reconstruction in South Carolina; and an account book, 1838-1855, of expenses at Memminger's summer home at Flat Rock, N.C. Also included are a few personal letters of the Tracy family of Macon, Ga.

ArchivalResource: About 250 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23658744 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01500/catalog View

Ravenel, Daniel, 1789-1873. Daniel Ravenel papers, 1815-1871.

Title: Daniel Ravenel papers, 1815-1871.

Papers consist of correspondence, accounts, estate records, and other items. Letterpress copybooks (1823-1869) contain letters to C.G. Memminger, N.R. Middleton, George A. Trenholm, and many others concerning the College of Charleston, banking in Charleston (S.C.), the Confederate bank system, the Huguenot Church, estate cases handled by Daniel Ravenel, and other matters. A bound volume (1823-1851) marked "Private Accounts" contains bond, estate, and trustee accounts. A ledger (1859-1870) contains Daniel Ravenel's accounts with the Planters' and Mechanics' Bank and Samuel P. Ravenel and estate accounts (1864-1866) of Henry E. Ravenel. Another bound volume contains accounts (1837-1856) for the assigned estate of C. Edmundston & Co., estate accounts (1864-1866) of Francis M. Weston, and accounts (1863-1864) for "Funds received in Charleston, S.C. for the Relief of destitute Refugees from New Orleans, by the Federal Authorities." Other accounts include trustee accounts (1850-1871) for Louisa C. Ravenel and trust property accounts (1852-1863) for H.E. Ravenel and Selina E.P. Ravenel. Estate records include estate account books for John S. Cripps and Daniel Ravenel (1762-1807); and an estate book containing accounts, receipts, an inventory, and other material pertaining to the estate of Catherine C. Prioleau, as well as loose items, including a copy of her will. Other items include Confederate bond receipts, minutes of the meetings of the Planters' and Mechanics' Bank (1861-1862), and legal documents and property records, including land grants (1859), a deed (1871), and other documents regarding property of H.W. Nolen in Macon County (N.C.).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36793953 View

Marshall-Furman family papers, 1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905).

Title: Marshall-Furman family papers, 1794-1975 (bulk 1833-1905).

Correspondence includes letters from Gov. Henry Watkins Allen, Alfred Mouton, Maxcy Gregg and members of the Gregg, Marshall, Furman, Taylor, McIver, and Chandler families. Topics include politics, economics, agriculture, and the Civil War. Principal correspondents are Adam Marshall, Thomas Taylor, John J. Marshall, Mary Marshall, Maria Harriet Marshall, and the children of Maria and Henry Marshall. Civil War letters detail Marshall's involvement in the Montgomery Convention and later, the Congress. Letters written from Confederate army camps by Henry's sons William M. and Henry A. Marshall of the 2nd La. Infantry Reg., and by Greene Callier Chandler and his relatives Augustine T. (Gus) and William H. (Billy) Croft of the 8th Miss. Infantry Reg. Financial papers include slave bills of sale (1794-1807) of Adam Marshall, receipts, invoices, and cotton factors' statements related to Henry Marshall's Land End Plantation (1840s-1850s), and papers of the Marshall and Furman family descendants. Legal documents include land warrants, labor contracts, and rental agreements. Professional papers document the law practices of Greene C. Chandler and G. Chandler Furman and the medical practices of S.C. Furman and F.S. Furman. Political materials include addresses made by Henry Marshall (1833), Greene C. Chandler, Henry M. Furman (1897), and Mary T. Furman (1913). Included are election returns from the 1860 vote on secession in De Soto Parish, political ephemera, and voter registration papers. Personal papers include educational materials, prose, and poetry. Manuscript volumes include a muster roll (1864-65) of the 2nd La. Cavalry, a diary (1824) of Henry Marshall's walking trip from Philadelphia to S. Carolina, an account book, a memorandum book (1839-65) recording births and deaths of slaves on Lands End Plantation, and notebooks. Printed items include constitutions, acts, and resolutions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States and proceedings of the Convention La. (1861), treatises on military tactics, pamphlets, and circulars. A map (n.d.) of the Battle of Bethel is included. Scrapbook materials were assembled by Sarah C. and Henry M. Furman and relate to the Furman family and to social and political history of Shreveport, Louisiana. Photographs depict Mary T. Furman, F.S. Furman, G. Chandler Furman, and William A. Marshall. Typescripts of some items in the collection and labels from an exhibit of Marshall-Furman family artifacts are included. The microfilm includes some items in the collection and many items which are not in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 3,046 items.35 v.8 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244105992 View

Miller, John Blount. Papers, 1773-1856.

Title: Papers, 1773-1856.

Legal correspondence, bills of sale for slaves, papers concerning land transactions in the Sumter district, and other business papers of Miller (d. 1851). Six items (1840-1843) concern the Bethel Baptist Church. Correspondents include W.H. DeSaussure, C.G. Memminger, John B. O'Neall, R.Y. Hayne, and Thomas Sumter.

ArchivalResource: 178 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41150056 View

Boyce, James Petigru, d. 1888. James Petigru Boyce papers, 1854-1907.

Title: James Petigru Boyce papers, 1854-1907.

Accounts as executor of the estate of Ker Boyce, acts of South Carolina legislature, genealogical notes, and clippings. Corresondents include John Albert Broadus and Christopher G. Memminger

ArchivalResource: 20 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/124036612 View

Confederate States of America Records, 1854-1889, (bulk 1861-1865)

Title: Confederate States of America Records 1854-1889 (bulk 1861-1865)

Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.

ArchivalResource: 18,500 items; 124 containers plus 5 oversize; 28 linear feet; 71 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003052 View

Civil War collection, 1861-1868.

Title: Civil War collection, 1861-1868.

This assortment of Civil War papers is composed of numerous individual collections from the Civil War period. The majority of the items are letters from Union soldiers to their families and friends at home. Some of the collections are substantive: the soldier is identified by regiment and hometown and many of his letters have been preserved. Most of the collections, however, are more miscellaneous and consist of one or two letters, a variety of official papers, memorabilia, incomplete diaries, reminiscences, ship records, and medical records. The more substantive collections are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the principal writer or recipient. These include the papers of Henry Baker of Sanborton; Rev. Caleb Davis Bradlee (1831-1897), a minister in Boston, Mass.; Daniel E. Burbank of Fitzwilliam, N.H.; the Converse Family; William P. Corthell of South Abington, Mass.; Fredrick A. Dickinson of Deerfield, Mass.; Alonzo Hill; Henry L. Jeslin of Fitchburg, Mass.; George Fredrick Jourdan and his wife, of Grafton, Mass.; George G. Kimball; John G. Park; Hon. Eron N. Thomas of (Rease?), N.Y.; William Thompson ( -1877) of Lancaster, Mass.; the Vaughan and Howe families; Charles Ward; and Jonathan Gibbs Warren. The papers of John Emerson Anderson (1833- ) contain a one hundred eighty-four (184) page memoir, "Reminiscences of the Civil War," in which Anderson, a Union soldier, describes General William T. Sherman's occupation of Atlanta and march to Savannah, as well as a collection of his letters. The papers of William Sever Lincoln (1811-1889) include papers taken from Confederate homes during the last days of the war, as well as copies made by Lincoln of two soldiers' diaries, muster rolls for the Confederate army, miscellaneous general orders and correspondence, and a copy of an 1862 Confederate inquiry into the loss of Roanoke Island, which includes a response by Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876). These papers were then donated to the American Antiquarian Society. The collection contains miscellaneous papers, arranged chronologically, including plans for a Union redoubt to be built at New Bern, N.C.; a consolidated morning report prepared by Brig. General John Sedgwick (1813-1864) at general headquarters in Fair Oaks, Va., in 1862; discharge papers; court-martial orders; a series of detailed orders by Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870) pertaining to the Battle of Mobile Bay, August 1864; and a "Morning Report of Marine Guard Stationed on Board U.S. Steamer 'Shenendoah' ... Oct. 29th 1866." Included also in the collection are a partial diary of an unidentified Union soldier stationed at Fort Pike, La., 1863; materials removed by Lucy Chase (1822-1909) from headquarters of General Grant at City Point, Va., 1865 (see the Chase Family, Papers, c. 1787-c. 1915); miscellaneous papers pertaining to the Confederate States of America (much of this material was removed from the Chase Family, Papers, c. 1787-c. 1915); and typed copies of correspondence of Joseph Christmas Ives (1828-1868), a West Point graduate who served as Jefferson Davis' aide-de-camp. Dr. John George Metcalf (1801-1892), a physician in Mendon, Mass., a member of the American Antiquarian Society, a town officer, and state senator, 1878-1879, collected letters and Civil War memorabilia, 1861-1865, for his scrapbook entitled "The Irrepressible Conflict." Several Mendon and Milford men, serving in the Union Army and stationed with their regiments in various areas of the war zone, wrote to Dr. Metcalf during the war. They occasionally enclosed such memorabilia as Confederate bills and bank certificates, family letters removed from Confederate soldiers, Confederate pass forms, printed tracts, and government papers (e.g., draft exemptions). Several letters of soldiers were written from Confederate prison camps and bear printed slogans. The Union Army correspondents include Dr. Francis Leland (1817-1867), a Milford, Mass., physician and surgeon; the Rev. Carlton Albert Staples (1827-1904), minister in Lexington, Mass.; Nathan Wheelock (1843- ) and Charles Henry Wheelock (1840-1862) of Mendon, Mass.; and Dr. Rowse Reynolds Clarke ( -1888), a physician in Whitinsville, Mass. There are several excellent letters containing much information relative to camp life (especially the Potomac military camp), medical treatments, supplies, and illnesses; marches, skirmishes, and battles; dry-goods supplies received from Massachusetts volunteer groups; prison life, scenes of slavery. Several letters written by Dr. Leland detail a surgeon's day in military camp, Leland's visit with Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) in 1861, and the carnage on battlefields in Virginia. Dr. Clarke wrote of political wrangling in 1862 between the provisional governor of North Carolina and Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824- 1881) concerning fugitive slaves and instruction of black refugees. Charles Henry Wheelock commented negatively on promotion techniques within the 15th Mass. Regiment in 1862. The collection also contains approximately three hundred fifty (350) letters from Southern women (and a few men) seeking to secure employment in the Department of the Confederate States Treasury. The majority of the letters are addressed to Christopher Gustavus Memminger (1803-1888) as Secretary of the Treasury and a few include an endorsement from Varina Howell (Mrs. Jefferson) Davis (1826-1909). Some of the women wrote detailed letters explaining their economic status and family situation. Two of the folio volumes are account books of commissary supplies for the Confederacy. The volume marked "Confederate States, 1863-1864" on the spine is indexed and actually includes entries for 1865. The volume entitled "Invoices of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, 1861-1863," which includes a great variety of entries dated through 1866, was kept by Capt. Frederick Clinton Humphreys (1822- ). He was commander of Military Storekeeper Ordnance first at the Baton Rouge, La., arsenal and then at the Columbus, Ga., arsenal. Many of the accounts record supplies sent to Col. Moses Hanibal Wright (1836-1886). The third folio volume contains newspaper clippings that had been pasted into the second folio volume, but have since been removed. The octavo volume contains copies of letters written by the following Union soldiers from 1861 to 1865: Izenart P. Cushman (1827-1863), George P. Burrows (1840-1879), Alonzo S. Cushman (1843-1864), and David F. Cushman (1840?- ).

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.3 v. ; folio.1 v. ; octavo.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207124621 View

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004009 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45459477 View

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. Letter signed : Richmond, to Lewis Cruger, 1863 Nov. 2.

Title: Letter signed : Richmond, to Lewis Cruger, 1863 Nov. 2.

Approving certificates of exemption from duty in Henley's battalion.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270639370 View

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. Papers, 1861-1878.

Title: Papers, 1861-1878.

Correspondence concerning routine official and personal business, requests for appointment to office, measures to finance the Confederate government, the pay of Thompson Allan, commissioner of taxes of the Confederacy, and the staff requirements of the Confederate customhouse at Charleston, S.C., in 1861.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20030153 View

C.G. Memminger Papers, 1803-1915

Title: C.G. Memminger Papers, 1803-1915

C.G. Memminger was a lawyer of Charleston, S.C., and Secretary of the Treasury, Confederate States of America. The collection includes scattered papers, chiefly 1860-1868, of Christopher Gustavus Memminger, including letters, 1803-1812, from members of the Memminger family in Germany; letters, 1854, from Memminger to his wife, Mary Wilkinson Memminger, from Europe; correspondence relating to secession; some official correspondence as secretary of the Confederate Treasury; papers of Thomas B. Memminger, Confederate army surgeon; papers concerning Reconstruction in South Carolina; and an account book, 1838-1855, of expenses at Memminger's summer home at Flat Rock, N.C. Also included are a few personal letters of the Tracy family of Macon, Ga.

ArchivalResource: About 250 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Memminger,C.G.html View

Samuel Wylie Crawford Papers, 1860-1892

Title: Samuel Wylie Crawford Papers 1860-1892

Physician and army officer. Diary, correspondence, memoranda, registers and returns of troops and artillery, sketches, photographs, and other items relating chiefly to events while Crawford was an assistant surgeon at Fort Sumter during the early months of 1861.

ArchivalResource: 400 items; 7 containers plus 1 oversize; 1.2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007014 View

Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884. J.P. Benjamin papers, 1827-1871.

Title: J.P. Benjamin papers, 1827-1871.

ALsS and photocopies and typewritten transcripts of correspondence concerning Benjamin's years at Yale College, New Haven, Conn.; the rights of free African Americans in slave states; charges that Benjamin and Jefferson Davis profited from the Civil War; imprisonment of Davis; Confederate John J. McRae's voluntary exile in Belize; and Benjamin's exile and career in law in England. Correspondents include John C. Breckinridge, J.M. Mason, C.G. Memminger, and Simeon North.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980281 View

Alonzo B. Noyes Papers, 1859-1867

Title: Alonzo B. Noyes Papers 1859-1867

Receipts, vouchers, freight lists, and correspondence addressed to Alonzo B. Noyes, a Collector of Customs and a Superintendent of Lights during the American Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 Linear feet; 1 box

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/noyes.htm View

Inventory of the John W. Anderson Diary Ragan MSS 00124., 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867)

Title: Inventory of the John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867)

John W. Anderson was born 1 April 1834, one of the eight children born to F. D. Anderson and Mary Silver Anderson of Hanford County, Md. John W. Anderson received his M.D. from the University of Maryland, and soon after accepted the offer of help to establish a medical practice from his uncle Joseph Silver, arriving in Mt. Pleasant, Ala. Sept. 1854. After a break with his benefactor in 1856, Anderson relocated to Sparta, Ala., establishing a successful medical practice, soon afterwards marrying Rosalie Josephine Witter. By the time of the diary four children had been born to the marriage, with only two surviving infancy, Francis Eugene Anderson (Frank) and Gertrude Corinne Anderson (Gertie). Rosalie's brother, Robert W. Witter, Jr. founded a small weekly newspaper in Sparta, Ala., called Anderson accepted the offer of a partnership in the paper, eventually completely abandoning his increasingly neglected medical practice in 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Anderson impulsively enlisted in a company of infantry mustered in Sparta, Ala., to answer the call to defend Fort Pickens, Fla. After the company was sent back home without seeing action, Anderson travelled to Montgomery, Ala. in Feb. 1861, and obtained an office with the newly established (4 Feb. 1861) Confederate States of America Provisional Government as Corresponding Clerk in the office of C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederacy. Anderson was later appointed (16 Aug. 1862) Recording Clerk of the Senate of the Confederate States of America. With Anderson's help, his brother-in-law, Robert B. Witter, had also obtained a position (Jan. 1862) with the Confederate government in the First Auditor's Office. Both Anderson and Witter also held the military rank of private in Company F of the Virginia 3rd Regiment, a sort of Home Guard, and lived with their families in Richmond, Va. fairly continuously during the rest of the war, after the Confederate Capital was transferred to that city in June 1861. Periodic trips to Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Maryland, often to escape Richmond, and occasionally to visit either the Anderson family in Baltimore, or the Witter family in Pensacola, enrich the diary with descriptions of railroad and boat travel, hotel living, sightseeing and the ever-present wide-flung battlefield that the war had made of the South. After the war was over, economic conditions were even worse for the Anderson family, and, among other occupations, to make ends meet, Anderson eventually returned to newspaper work accepting a position in Nov. 1865 as a typesetter with the . The John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867) consists of: the original diary for the years 1861-1866, handwriten by John W. Anderson in 1867 as a fair copy presentation gift to his sister Minnie Anderson, in a notebook made by A. Drury, measuring approximately 24 x 19 cm. The notebook is bound in cardboard, covered in paper, with quarter leather corners and backstrap, and housed in the repository under Restricted access in a phase box; a complete photographic copy (with negatives) of the diary pages made in 1988, housed in polpropylene sleeves in three three-ring clamshell album boxes; and a photocopy of the photographs of the diary made on archival quality paper. The Spartan. Richmond Examiner

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Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Title: Charles Carleton Coffin papers, 1861-1890.

Thirty-seven addresses or book chapters by Coffin on patriotic and historical subjects, ca. 1870-1890, and souvenirs of his reporting days during the Civil War consisting of Confederate papers found in the streets of Richmond April 3, 1865. The Civil War material includes appointments for 3 officers; copy of General Beauregards letter of resignation; copies of reports including casualty reports from Marmadukes raid into Missouri and the defense of James Island in Charleston Harbor, 16-20 June 1862; letters to Col. Frances Henney Smith, Superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute; correspondence between Generals Robert E. Lee and Henry W. Halleck on alleged Union atrocities; and some material on provisions for prisoners of war in Richmond. There are misc. CSA government documents like an 1863 annual report from the office of the Secretary of War and Treasury Department documents along with misc. state governments documents such as the resolutions passed at a meeting of the citizens of Amelia County, VA on 23 February 1865. There is a small group of letters sent to Jefferson Davis, his wife, and Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War. Correspondents include Clement Claiborne Clay, Thomas F. Drayton; S. Bassett French, Ambrosio Jose Gonzales, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Virginia McLaurine Mosby, Jacob Thompson, and Nathaniel Beverly Tucker. There is also a group of 345 letters sent to VA governors John Letcher and William Smith; 53 letters sent between Confederate soldiers from VA and their families; correspondence sent to Edward J. Harden, a GA Superior Court Judge; a collection of poetry and letters contributed to the Richmond Examiner, Richmond Sentinel and Savannah Morning News concerning problems in the army and civilian life; and correspondence (bulk 1857) sent to Ziba Oakes, a Charleston slaver trader.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64665331 View

Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908. Ellison Capers papers, 1833-1908.

Title: Ellison Capers papers, 1833-1908.

Papers pertaining to military activities from 1861-1865 consisting of official reports, general orders, special orders, diairies, muster rolls, and personal letters.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639966093 View

Confederate States of America. Bonds. 1863.

Title: Bonds. 1863.

An eight percent $500 bond certificate issued in Richmond, Virginia from the Confederate States of America. Originally eight $20 coupons for collecting interest from the years 1864-1868. The 1864 coupon has been clipped. Includes a picture of C.G. Memminger, the Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States of America in 1863.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51523593 View

Jamison, David Flavel, 1810-1864. David Flavel Jamison papers, 1850-1928; (bulk, 1861-1865).

Title: David Flavel Jamison papers, 1850-1928; (bulk, 1861-1865).

Including letter, 18 Jan. 1861, to Mrs. P.G. Snowden, thanking her for a flag presented by "the patriotic ladies of Charleston"; transcript, 31 Jan. 1861, Charleston, to Gen. [R.G.M.] Dunovant, contemporary copy of orders to relieve the troops at various posts around Charleston and expressing his thanks and those of the governor to the troops recently under his command; letter, 6 Mar. 1861, Charleston, to Col. Ed[ward] Manigault, ordering the guns "to Morris' Island at the Light House"; and printed manuscript, 13 Mar. 1861, Charleston, to C[hristopher] G[ustavus] Memminger, Montgomery, Ala., summoning him to a "Meeting of the Convention of the People of South Carolina." Also includes letter, 11 Jan. 1861, George W. Earle, report on bridge being constructed from Sullivans Island to Mount Pleasant; biographical sketch of Jamison, compiled by R.L. Meriwether; and volume, c. 1928, "A Sketch of General David F. Jamison" by Innis L. Jenkins.

ArchivalResource: 17 items and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30843543 View

Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894. Papers, 1793-1894 (bulk 1838-1894)

Title: Lewis Reeves Gibbes papers, 1793-1894

Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

ArchivalResource: 5,700 items; 16 containers; 3 linear feet; 8 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004009 View

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. Letter of C. G. Memminger, 1860.

Title: Letter of C. G. Memminger, 1860.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79454450 View

Casey, Martha De Bow. Collection, 1791-1933.

Title: Collection, 1791-1933.

Primarily composed of a fragmented set of incoming business correspondence of James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1820-1867), his son, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1861-1947), and the wife of the latter, Sarah Spence De Bow, collected by Martha De Bow Casey. 29 letters are addressed to J.D.B. De Bow, Sr. Among the senders are George Bancroft, Aaron V. Brown, W.G. Brownlow, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Horace Greeley, C.G. Memminger, Joel R. Poinsett, Alexander H. Stephens, George Ticknor, William Henry Trescott, John Tyler, Jr., and Henry A. Wise. Subjects covered are De Bow's literary articles and journals, internal improvements in the South, the Louisiana Historical Society, census, and financial aid to the Confederacy. J.D.B. De Bow, Jr. is the recipient of 9 letters, the bulk of which are written by Tennessee governors Henry H. Horton, Austin Peay, A.H. Roberts, and A.A. Taylor. Various Tennessee topics are discussed. Mrs. Sarah Spence De Bow received 22 letters which are responses to her concern about the Methodist Episcopal Church, South becoming politicized and her support of Herbert Hoover in the presidential contest of 1928. Her correspondents include James A. Farley, Carter Glass, Kenneth McKellar, H.L. Mencken, J.J. Raskob, and Eleanor and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The balance of the correspondence consists of 15 letters apparently addressed to different individuals outside the De Bow family. Prominent among them are Thomas Hart Benton, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, J.D. Howard (Jesse James), William McKinley, Mary N. Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), John Randolph, John Tyler, and Martin Van Buren. The collection also includes an account of Benjamin Rush, 1791, and an affidavit signed by John Sevier, 1801.

ArchivalResource: 85 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26835913 View

The Year of Secession, 1861, Civil War letter collection MSS. 0305., 1861

Title: The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection 1861

Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others

ArchivalResource: 0.05 Linear feet; (16 items; photocopies)

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000305 View

Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1752-1953.

Title: Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1752-1953.

Correspondence of Robert Barnwell Rhett and the Rhett family re politics, family news, first secession crisis of 1850, the Civil War, military leaders, and social and military events. Letter, 10 Feb. 1832, to Waddy Thompson (Greenville, S.C.), offering to serve the State as Attorney General if "Mr. [Hugh Swinton] Legare accepts the mission to Belgium"; 4 Apr. 1842, to Hiland Hall, re the claim of children of Capt. Wilkins, who was killed, 1779, at the Battle of Beaufort during the Revolutionary War; 4 letters, 19 Jan. 1843, 11 June 1851, 22 Nov. 1852, and undated to Oresties Brownson and others requesting certain government publications, suggesting the appointment of [Franklin H.] Elmore as commissioner to build the U.S. Custom House in Charleston, and attempts to publish a political pamphlet; and 3 letters, ca. 1847-25 July 1848, re the appointment of midshipmen, including letter, 25 July 1848, to Secretary of the Navy, John Y[oung] Mason, requesting that he appoint William H. Duncan of Barnwell, S.C., to the U.S. Naval Academy. Letter, 1 Mar. 1849, to Daniel Webster, ackowledging receipt of a book, miniature portrait, and gifts to his daughter and declaring "altho' I have differed with you on questions of International policy - I have not differed at all with you in your administration of the State Department.... The high and catholic spirit which pervaded your whole course - vindicating with an ability certainly unsurpassed by any of your predecessors in this distinguished office - the honor of the union - and the rights and interests of all of its sections equally - entitle you to the admiration of all Statesmen at home or abroad." Letter, 20 July 1850, Charleston, S.C., to Col. H[enry] L[ewis] Benning, Columbus, Ga., in which Rhett sends a copy of his speech reporting on the Nashville Convention during the first secession crisis, delivered, 21 June 1850, at Hibernian Hall in Charleston; this speech was published in the Charleston Daily Courier (20 July 1850), "It was quite extempore.... But a cunning and malicious whig, travestied it, under the signature of 'Curtius,' and I have been obliged to publish it.... It excited more applause & enthusiasm here than any speech I ever delivered" [Letter signed "Curtius" published, 25 June 1850, in Charleston Daily Courier]. Seven letters, 13 Jan 1851 - 27 Mar. 1852 (from Charleston, S.C. [Ashepoo Ferry], and Washington, D.C.) to sons Andrew Burnett Rhett and Edmund Rhett, both enrolled as students at S.C. College, offering fatherly advice, commenting on their studies, advising Andrew on the care of his eyes, and sending them money, commenting on national politics, including letter, 13 Jan. 1851, re potential of S.C's secession, others "are looking with intense interest at the course of things in South Carolina.... of course you will volunteer, if there is any prospect of the Gov't coercing South Carolina"; his difficult financial situation and sending copy of "The Address" to Columbia for publication (13 Apr. 1851); letter, 27 Feb. 1852, re necessity of his replying to Jeremiah Clemens and Lewis Cass, and finding it a disagreeable task, "I abhor contention of any kind, and fear it, for my temper is I fear far from being moderate or good"; and autobiographical sketch [1858] prepared for Charles Lanman's Dictionary of the U.S. Congress. Civil War items include 13 letters, 12 Feb. 1861 - 10 Mar. 1863 (from Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond, Va.) to son R.B. Rhett, Jr., the editor of Charleston Mercury newspaper, re organization of the Confederate states, comments on Gen. [Bushrod] Johnson, and P.G.T. Beauregard, office seekers, [Christopher Gustavus] Memminger and a cabinet post, criticism of Jefferson Davis, inflation and exhorbitant prices, internal improvements law, behavoir of African American slaves and free people of color, personal finances, a speech for publication, and request for information and publications re the pension question.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft. (3 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41442327 View

Johnstone family. Johnstone family papers, 1803-1979.

Title: Johnstone family papers, 1803-1979.

Chiefly consisting of bills, receipts, legal papers; correspondence of Mary Barnwell Johnstone, and family correspondence re organization and activities of the Transylvania Volunteers [of N.C.] in the Civil War, Francis W. Johnstone's trip to the Bahamas and reports on agricultural conditions in S.C. and N.C.; contract, 3 Oct. 1803, Buncombe County, N.C., for sale of land on French Broad River from Lambert Clayton to Nathaniel Johnson. Including letters, 1845-1868, of M.B. Johnstone, Greenville, S.C., and Flat Rock, N.C., re economic hardships, education, social activities, African-American slaves, freedmen, C[hristopher] G[ustave] Memminger, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Tom Arthur; volume of photocopied correspondence, 1845-1869; royal order, 4 Sept. 1867, requiring that all officials of the British government provide any assistance necessary to Francis W. Johnstone during his examination of agriculture and cultivation on the Bahama Islands. Undated list from Beaumont Plantation, listing names and occupations of slaves; Registration certificate, 15 Sept. 1876, Terrebonne Parish, La.; volume, 1978, by James D[ecatur] Johnstone, "The Annandale Peerage Case," re genealogical listing of nobility of Annandale, Scotland, including photographs of Johnstone family members. Johnstone-Fraser genealogy, 1958, oversized genealogical chart from records of Isabel Fraser Johnstone, listing information about the Allston, Beadon, Cannon, Clarkson, Cutte, DeSaussure, Emms, Fraser, Gibbes, Grimke, Hyme, Harvey, Harris, Hackett, Jarvis, Johnstone, Loocock, Lewis, Lee, McPherson, Marbeuff, Mackewn, Massingberd, Pendarvis, Pinckney, Screven, Smith, Stobo, Tucker, Warner, and Winn families.

ArchivalResource: 122 items and 3 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43147029 View

Benjamin, J. P. (Judah Philip), 1811-1884. Papers, 1827-1871.

Title: Papers, 1827-1871.

Autograph letters signed and photocopies and typewritten transcripts of correspondence concerning Benjamin's years at Yale College; the rights of free blacks in slave states; charges that Benjamin and Jefferson Davis profited from the Civil War; imprisonment of Davis; Confederate John J. McRae's voluntary exile in Belize; and Benjamin's exile and career in law in England. Correspondents include John C. Breckinridge, J.M. Mason, C.G. Memminger, and Simeon North.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34149502 View

J. M. Mason Papers, 1838-1870, (bulk 1862-1865)

Title: J. M. Mason Papers 1838-1870 (bulk 1862-1865)

United States senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain. Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was a Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 9 containers; 1.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 View

DeClouet, Alexandre Étienne, 1812-1890. Alexandre DeClouet letter, 1861 Mar. 4.

Title: Alexandre DeClouet letter, 1861 Mar. 4.

Letter written by DeClouet from the Confederate Congress in Montgomery, Ala., to Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury C.G. Memminger, recommending W.H.S. Taylor for a position in the treasury department.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261139937 View

Seabrook, Whitemarsh B. (Whitemarsh Benjamin), 1795-1855. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook correspondence, 1849-1852.

Title: Whitemarsh B. Seabrook correspondence, 1849-1852.

Correspondence relating to South Carolina and national politics. Correspondents include A. P. Butler, H. W. Collier, William DuBose, F. H. Elmore, Maxcy Gregg, Isaac W. Hayne, Thomas Lehre, John H. Leland, C. G. Memminger, W. D. Moseley, Henry William Peronneau, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnwell Rhett, George Washington Bonaparte Towns, and Daniel Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981054 View

Read family. Read family papers, 1779-1920 (bulk 1824-1915).

Title: Read family papers, 1779-1920 (bulk 1824-1915).

Papers primarily consist of correspondence of members of the Read family. Other items include newspaper clippings, genealogical materials, receipts (many to Maurice H. Lance, 1850-1872), and legal papers relating to Maryville Plantation. The military papers of John Harleston Read III include a roll (ca. 1865) of the 21st South Carolina Infantry Regiment, with some notes on promotions, casualties, etc., and a "List of the Officers and Members of the Pee Dee Home Guard" (1861). Also includes Robert Vaux Read's French visa and other ephemera document his travels during World War I.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70971979 View

Anderson, John W. Diary, 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867).

Title: Diary, 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867).

The John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867) consists of: the original diary for the years 1861-1866, handwriten by John W. Anderson in 1867 as a fair copy presentation gift to his sister Minnie Anderson. a photocopy of the photographs of the diary made on archival quality paper.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51815296 View