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Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

Title: Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

This collection contains one hundred ninety two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers, as well as the famous; such as Lee, Beauregard, Morgan, Jackson, and Stuart. The collection also includes photos of past American presidents and European royalty. Acid free photocopies have been placed in the original photograph album and the originals are in a separate container. Both copies have the subject's name on it. The cartes-de-visites were taken by photographers in Mobile, Nashville, and New York; and are roughly two by five inches.

ArchivalResource: .66 cubic ft. (2 archives containers).

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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.)

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Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865. Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

Title: Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

This collection consists largely of the correspondence of Edmund Ruffin with family members and political colleagues, primarily concerning agricultural reform and farming operations at "Beechwood," "Coggin's Point," and "Shellbanks" in Prince George County, "Cabin Point" in Surry County, and "Marlbourne" in Hanover County, Va. Also, includes correspondence among his children and letters written by several of his sons while serving in various units of the Confederate States Army. Also, includes Ruffin's correspondence concerning agricultural reform and experimental agriculture, African-American slavery, southern rights, and secession. Correspondents include Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Charles Campbell, John Henry Hammond, Robert Barnwell Rhett, and John Tyler. Also, includes Ruffin's 1843 diary kept as agricultural surveyor of South Carolina; autobiographical "incidents of my life" covering the period 1821-1851, in part concerning the establishment of the Farmer's Register, Shellbanks and Petersburg, Va., and the Virginia Agricultural Society; and essays and speeches concerning agriculture, slavery, and Ruffin's opposition to African colonization. Also, includes diaries, 1843-1847, of Julian Calx Ruffin, concerning farming operations at "Ruthven," Prince George County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 826 items.

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Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891. Papers, 1856-1889.

Title: Papers, 1856-1889.

Papers include a letter, 1856, from Samuel Adams Lee concerning his biography of Henry ("Light Horse Harry") Lee; a letter, 1858, from George Henry Moore, regarding the publication of Charles Lee's papers; a letter, 1865, from Captain William R. Woodin, 150th Regiment, New York Infantry, describing Charleston after its capture by Union troops, and listing documents concerning secession taken from the vacant home of Robert Barnwell Rhett and sent to Lossing; correspondence, 1870s and 1880s, between Lossing and Charles Colcock Jones, concerning the writings and publications of both men; correspondence with Jones and John F. Pickett about the great seal of the Confederate States of America; and a handwritten draft of an article by Lossing, "Castilians in the Land of the Flowers," on Panfilo de Narváez's expedition to Florida in 1527.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19903025 View

Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1835-1880.

Title: Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1835-1880.

Papers relating to Robert Barnwell Rhett and his sons Alfred M. Rhett, Edmund Rhett Jr., and Herbert Rhett. Papers, 1835-1853, are of Robert Barnwell Rhett and chiefly concern national and sectional politics, including controversies over the federal tariff; nullification; bank organization; the annexation of Texas; Democratic Party organization, factions, candidates, campaigns, and elections; the political fortunes of Martin Van Buren, John C. Calhoun, and James K. Polk; slavery; secession; and political appointments and favors. Other topics include property matters and Rhett's personal financial arrangements; family activities; the education of some of his children; negotiations and mission to England to recover duties wrongly imposed on rough rice; and a physician's account, 1836-1840, for family and servants at Rhett's Blue House in Colleton County, S.C. Papers, 1853-1863, are of Alfred M. Rhett and Edmund Rhett Jr., and include several items pertaining to duels, others related to the running of the Charleston (S.C.) Mercury, and to Edmund's Confederate service commanding Brook's Guard. Papers of Herbert Rhett, 1868-1870 and 1879-1880, are chiefly family letters. Undated items include many family and personal letters, a manuscript article on the Civil War, invitations to public rallies, bills, and letter fragments.

ArchivalResource: 377 items (0.5 linear ft.)

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Stapleton, John, fl. 1839. John Stapleton papers, 1790 Oct. 5-1839 Aug. 22.

Title: John Stapleton papers, 1790 Oct. 5-1839 Aug. 22.

Correspondence, land papers, slaves records, and plantation journal, 1790-1839; and other papers relating to Stapleton's management of the Bull family estate on St. Helena Island, S.C., and economic difficulties from panics of 1819 and 1837; includes extensive records re the slave community of St. Helena Island. Will, 5 Oct. 1790, of S.C. Lieut. Gov. William Bull II; oversized plat of St. Helena Island, S.C. (1798) showing 3,300 acre tract originally surveyed in 1731 for William Bull, depicting locations of slave quarters, overseer's house, gin house, barn, adjacent property owners, and creeks flowing into St. Helena River, drawn by Joseph Purcell; note, 25 Nov. 1797, re cash accounts of Catherine Stapleton, Administratrix of estate of Mrs. H. Bull. Nineteen letters, 3 Feb.-30 Dec. 1797, exhcanged between Capt. John Stapleton in London, and Mary Hannah Beale and her sister, Catherine Beale Stapleton, topics include settlement of estate of Beale's aunt, Mrs. Hannah Bull, accounts with Capt. John Stapleton, and Bull's life in Charleston and England. Seven lists, ca. 28 Nov. 1800-10 May 1824, lists of slaves at Frogmore Plantation, St. Helena Island, S.C., giving births and deaths, age, origin, and trade or type of work performed, lists of 1816 and 1818 include family groupings and record of male and female slaves who had spouses on other plantations. Plantation journal, 1813-1816, Frogmore [Beaufort County, S.C.], list of African-American slaves, with births, deaths, occupations, crops, weather, and distribution of supplies, interleaved in J. Hoff's 1813 Almanac for Georgia and Carolinas; letter, 30 Sept. 1820, Charleston, from William Robertson, re debt of Hugh Smith and hardship in cotton market [journal, almanac, and introductory material on roll R1069-f]. Letter, 17 Feb. 1836, Charleston, S.C., from Higham and Fife, re sale of slaves and real property to R. Barnwell Smith, and rising value of slaves, failure of previous year's corn crop due to drought, value of cotton, lawsuit against Mr. VanderHorst; letter, 20 Apr. 1838, Charleston, S.C., from Higham, Fife and Co., re name change from Robert Barnwell Smith to R. Barnwell Rhett, and land on Congaree River; letter, 20 Feb. 1839, from Higham, Fife and Co., re comparison of fees charged by lawyers in U.S. and England.

ArchivalResource: 113 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46429392 View

Whaley, Mitchell & Clancy. Whaley, Mitchell & Clancy law firm records, 1853-1871, bulk 1866-1871.

Title: Whaley, Mitchell & Clancy law firm records, 1853-1871, bulk 1866-1871.

Correspondence (1853-Aug. 1871; bulk 1866-1871) and a "Docket of Appeal Cases" (1869-1871), a bound volume containing records of appeals to the South Carolina and U.S. Supreme Courts. Correspondents include William W. Boyce, D.H. Chamberlain, William A. Courtenay, Alfred Ely, John S. Francis, John M. Green, J.B. Grimball, W.W. Harllee, George Izard, A.G. Mackey, C.G. Memminger, James L. Orr, B.F. Perry, R.B. Rhett, B.R. Riordan, F.A. Sawyer; R.K. Scott and other Freedmen's Bureau and military officials; George A. Trenholm; W.H. Trescot; and various attorneys and law firms.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5.75 linear ft.

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Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Letter, 1841 January 15 [n.p.], to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1841 January 15 [n.p.], to Daniel Webster [n.p.].

Is concerned that remarks in Webster's speech at Saratoga are being attributed to him.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. on 1 fold. leaf. 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2921659 View

Gordon, George Augustus, 1827-1912. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence. 1842-1907.

Family matters; letters from Dartmouth College students; references to American political life in the 1850's; correspondence on railroad engineering and newspaper work, particularly Gordon's employment with the Charleston Mercury and Lewiston Sentinel; papers of Southern Gold Co., a mining operation; impressions of Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Barnwell Rhett; letter of his brother describing his impressions of Vermont in 1850's; Gordon's trip to the midwest in search of employment, 1854-1855; genealogical correspondence, 1880-1907, some as officer in the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (ca. 650 items) ; 27 x 31 x 13 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/237680737 View

Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Papers, 1838-1874.

Title: Papers, 1838-1874.

Papers containing routine business and political letters; letter, 1846, from Rhett to Franklin Harper Elmore concerning the elections of 1846; and a letter, 1858, from William H. Branch to R.B. Rhett, Jr., expressing the hope that the elder Rhett would be returned to the U.S. Senate. Also, accounts, 1853-1866, from Rhett's plantation in Altamaha, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20115801 View

Burt, A. (Armistead), 1802-1883. Papers, 1759-1933.

Title: Papers, 1759-1933.

Political and legal correspondence, the former dealing largely with the policies of John C. Calhoun and the question of secession. After 1860 the material relates chiefly to Burt's law practice, especially to the management of estates of Confederate soldiers, and the Calhoun estate. Other matters referred to include the political corruption and economic conditions in postwar South Carolina. Among the correspondents are Pierce M. Butler, Henry Toole Clark, Thomas Green Clemson, T.L. Deveaux, James H. Hammond, A.P. Hayne, Reverdy Johnson, Hugh S. Legaré, Augustus B. Longstreet, W.N. Meriwether, james L. Petigru, Francis W. Pickens, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Richard Rush, Waddy Thompson, and Louis T. Wigfall.

ArchivalResource: 5, 675 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19309861 View

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Papers, 1793-1960; bulk, (1793- 1861).

Title: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Papers, 1793-1960; bulk, (1793- 1861).

Includes 3 letters, 11 May 1793, 12 May 1807, and 1 June 1815, Augusta Ga., from Hannah Longstreet, to her aunt, Rebekah Hendrickson, New Jersey, re family news, trip from New Jersey to Augusta, Ga., smallpox innoculation of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, and his education, including cancelled plans to send him to Princeton. 29 Nov. 1860, Columbia, S.C., to [James Cordes Doar?], conveying instructions of trustees of South Carolina College "to summon the members of the Senior Class to return to their post, and to be present at Commencement on Monday next"; Letter, 19 Dec. 1795, Philadelphia, Pa., William Longsteet, to James Tapscoot, New Jersey, giving prescription for a sick horse; 3 May 1854, New Orleans, La., James Longstreet, to Dr. J. Milligan, re transfer of land papers and plans to travel to Texas; 26 Oct. 1860, Columbia, to "Editor of the Charleston Mercury," [Robert Barnwell Rhett], re "three Dialogues for publication" on "abolition aggression" and enclosing another "to get them all out before the Presidential elections" requesting his name as author be withheld and commenting on [Francis] Lieber's course in national politics and the Know-Nothing Party; Also contains 12 manuscripts, 10 Dec 1857 - 1 May 1861, reports as president of South Carolina College to trustees on the examination and progress of students leaving to join the Confederate Army; photostatic copy of DeBow's Review article, Sept., 1860, describing Columbia, S.C., and mentioning A.B. Longstreet as president of South Carolina College; and photostatic copy of "Augustus Longstreet: Man of Many Faces," an article by Kathleen Sloan published in Savannah Morning News Magazine, 13 Nov. 1960. Copy of letter, 1894, containing genealogical information on the Longstreet family.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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Cobb, Nicholas, fl. 1844-1861. Miscellaneous papers of the Hutter family, 1685-1859.

Title: Miscellaneous papers of the Hutter family, 1685-1859.

The collection contains a journal of Poplar Forest, containing daily events, slave lists, weather, and farming activities, 1844-1859 and an account book listing income and expenses at Poplar Forest, 1856-1861, kept by Nicholas Cobb. The collection also contains clipped signatures, and envelopes and cover sheets in the handwriting of several American and European figures of the 18th and 19th centuries including the Charles Bonaparte, the Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover), Massacushetts governor Joseph Dudley, U.S. Senators Howell Cobb and Robert B. Rhett, and U.S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.11 items.

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Robert Barnwell Rhett Papers, 1835-1880

Title: Robert Barnwell Rhett Papers, 1835-1880

Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) was a congressman and senator from South Carolina, 1837-1852, and a member of the Nashville Convention, 1850; the secession convention, 1861; and the Confederate Congress at Montgomery, 1861. The collection consists of papers relating to Robert Barnwell Rhett and his sons Alfred M. Rhett, Edmund Rhett Jr., and Herbert Rhett. Papers, 1835-1853, are of Robert Barnwell Rhett and chiefly concern national and sectional politics, including controversies over the federal tariff; nullification; bank organization; the annexation of Texas; Democratic Party organization, factions, candidates, campaigns, and elections; the political fortunes of Martin Van Buren, John C. Calhoun, and James K. Polk; slavery; secession; and political appointments and favors. Other topics include property matters and Rhett's personal financial arrangements; family activities; the education of some of his children; negotiations and mission to England to recover duties wrongly imposed on rough rice; and a physician's account, 1836-1840, for family and servants at Rhett's Blue House in Colleton County, S.C. Papers, 1853-1863, are of Alfred M. Rhett and Edmund Rhett Jr., and include several items pertaining to duels, others related to the running of the Charleston (S.C.) , and to Edmund's Confederate service commanding Brook's Guard. Papers of Herbert Rhett, 1868-1870 and 1879-1880, are chiefly family letters. Undated items include many family and personal letters, a manuscript article on the Civil War, invitations to public rallies, bills, and letter fragments. Mercury

ArchivalResource: 377; 0.5

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Bacot, Josephine Rhett, 1859-1932. Bacot family papers, 1860-1938.

Title: Bacot family papers, 1860-1938.

Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama concern family matters. Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger families. Includes clippings, ephemera, and photographs of Josephine Bacot and others. Papers related to Josephine Bacot's writings include rejection letters from newspaper and magazine editors, an unfinished holograph autobiography (1930), edited typescripts, several holograph manuscripts, notes, and copies of her articles. Papers of Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888) and Walter Rhett Bacot include correspondence with family members and others. Papers include a biography of Josephine Horton Rhett (1830-1860) and the correspondence of various family members. Of note is the correspondence (1862) of Robert Barnwell Rhett with family members and others discussing the Civil War and what is to be done with his children in the event of his death.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31740833 View

F. H. Elmore Papers, 1795-1858, (bulk 1839-1850)

Title: F. H. Elmore Papers 1795-1858 (bulk 1839-1850)

Lawyer, banker, and United States representative from South Carolina. Chiefly business correspondence and financial papers relating to Elmore's manufacturing interests and his presidency of the Bank of South Carolina, Charleston.

ArchivalResource: 1,750 items; 12 containers; 3.6 linear feet

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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

Bacot, Daniel Huger, 1847-1920. Daniel Huger Bacot papers, 1948-1905.

Title: Daniel Huger Bacot papers, 1948-1905.

Daniel Huger Bacot's papers consist of correspondence, business and legal papers, writings, and other items. Correspondence (1848-1905) of Daniel Huger Bacot and Bacot family members and relations including Josephine Rhett Bacot, Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), Robert Barnwell Rhett II (1828-1905), and Julius Motte Bacot, concerns family matters, politics, social life, business affairs, the writings of Josephine Rhett Bacot, and other subjects. Business and legal papers (1870-1893) include documents concerning Bacot v. Horseshoe Mining Company and other cases. There are materials concerning South Carolina militia including a muster roll (1878) of a battalion of the Sumter Guards, military commissions, orders, and a return of ordnance and ordnance stores. Also included are notes, minutes, by-laws, receipts, and lists pertaining to the College of Charleston Alumni Association. Writings (1869) of Daniel Huger Bacot consist of handwritten manuscripts of speeches or essays, one of which is entitled "A Brief Outline of the History of Coffee," and another, "Our Banner."

ArchivalResource: ca. 345 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35923192 View

Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Rhett family papers, 1825-1938.

Title: Rhett family papers, 1825-1938.

Family, business, and political correspondence from Charleston, S.C., Washington, D.C., family plantations, etc. Rhett family correspondence (1842-1859) includes letters (1845-1857) from Matthew Forster in London, England about a legal dispute, letters (1851) of Rhett's first wife, Elizabeth W. Burnet Rhett, from Oak Land Plantation, Colleton Co. concerning family matters, plantation concerns, prospects for secession, and other political issues; letters of Robert B. Rhett, Jr. at Sandy Dam Plantation to his brother, A. Burnet Rhett about plantation matters, horses, and family matters, and a letter (Sept. 3, 1858) from President James Buchanan about reopening the African slave trade in Charleston, South Carolina. Includes letters of Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr. to his second wife, Catherine Herbert Dent Rhett about family matters and politics, a letter (June 5, 1861) from A. Burnet Rhett describing the first battle of Manassas (Bull Run), letter (Sept. 1861) about possible British or European support for the C.S.A., and letters to Rhett, Sr. from his sons and daughters, including Robert Barnwell Rhett, Jr. about politics and family matters, and letters to Catherine Rhett from her sisters about Dent family matters. Political writings include Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr.'s notes (1825-1850s) on legislation and convention proceedings, a proposed constitution and amendments (ca. 1861) for the Confederate States, and essays on "Northern Money Power" and "Fears for Democracy," and other topics. Also includes receipts and rice accounts (1886-1893) for Mrs. Henrietta Aiken Rhett of Jehosse Plantation, a Confederate Memorial Day speech (1938) delivered at Magnolia Cemetery by A. Burnet Rhett, and appeals (1886-1904) for repairing the Confederate Home in Charleston, S.C. after the 1886 earthquake.

ArchivalResource: ca. 400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141642 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

Photographs of Confederate generals and Civil War political leaders, 1861-1865.

Title: Photographs of Confederate generals and Civil War political leaders, 1861-1865.

The collection consists of photographs, clippings, engravings and postcards of Confederate generals and Civil War political leaders. Persons represented include the following: John Adams, Braxton Bragg, John C. Breckenridge, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Samuel Cooper, Richard S. Ewell, John Buchanan Floyd, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Samuel Garland, Roger Weightman Hanson, A. P. Hill, Thomas J. Jackson, Albert Sidney Johnson, Ed Johnson, J. E. Johnston, Joe Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Wililam Henry Fitzhugh [Rooney] Lee, James Longstreet, Ben McCullough, Maffit, John Bankhead Magruder, Humphrey Marshall, Dabney H. Mavry, Albert Pike, Bishop L. Polk, Sterling Price, Roger A. Pryor, Robert B. Rhett, Raphael Semmes, E. Kirby Smith, O. F. Strahl, J. E. B. Stuart, Jeff Thompson, Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Williams [of Tennessee], Henry Alexander Wise, and two unidentified photos.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet.

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Dwight, Isaac Marion, 1799-1873. Isaac M. Dwight family papers, 1837-1860.

Title: Isaac M. Dwight family papers, 1837-1860.

Correspondence of Isaac M. Dwight consists of three letters to him from Samuel Porcher of Mexico Plantation. The first two (Sept. 1837), concern serious damages to cotton and other crops, bridges, and a canal by heavy rains and a "freshet" in the St. Johns Berkeley Parish area. Porcher also writes of local politics and elections, a minor outbreak of yellow fever, and some deaths among his slaves, mostly children, from disease. ("I have been unfortunate among the little negroes in the country."). His letter (June 1840) mainly describes crop losses (specifically corn and oats) due to flooding, and repairs to an embankment. Two newspaper clippings and a note (1853) pertain to a dispute between Alfred M. Rhett and Dwight. Dwight published a letter in the "Charleston Mercury" newspaper concerning politics ("Unionism") to which Rhett responded, defending his father, Robert Barnwell Rhett, and impugning Dwight's motives. This led to a challenge to a duel, but another clipping notes that the issue was resolved peacefully. A contemporary copy of the challenge note Dwight sent to Rhett is dated 30 July 1853. Other documents pertaining specifically to Dwight include a typed transcript of a letter by Richard Yeadon published in the "Charleston Courier" (Apr. 1857). The letter describes Cedar Grove Plantation in St. George Dorchester Parish, the home of Isaac M. Dwight. Other correspondence consists of three letters (1860) from Henry Ravenel to his children, about his travels to New York City, Saratoga Springs, and Niagara Falls. In New York he writes of attending a "farce" at the Winter Garden Theatre, and seeing Central Park, and mentions his preference for home. "With all this great panorama of human life, & human actions before me I would rather be standing before my corn house door at Pooshee...Strange infatuation it may appear, but nevertheless true." One letter (1845) to Henry Ravenel from D. Bigelow in Columbia, S.C., is written entirely in rhyming verse and concerns Pooshee Plantation and the people there. Miscellaneous items include a typed transcript of "Extracts from the Minutes" (1753-1808) of St. Johns Berkeley Parish concerning glebe lands; and a list (undated) of the "Names of St. John's Negroes," possibly freedmen.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

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Warren, John D., d. 1885. John D. Warren papers, 1856-1885.

Title: John D. Warren papers, 1856-1885.

Consisting of mortgages, leases, bills, receipts, land papers and other business and family correspondence of Col. John D. Warren documenting antebellum plantation management and Reconstruction-era social and economic conditions in the lowcountry, and financialaspects of his legal guardianship of his nieces and nephews, such as tuition expenses. Topics discussed include hiring-out, appraisal, transportation, and sale of African American slaves by auction firm of Capers & Heyward (Charleston, S.C. ), including letter 20 Dec. 1858, from John A. Warren of Mary's Island, re accusation against Harry, a slave, of attempted arson; cotton sales from Charleston factors Green Trapmann & Co. and Jno. Fraser & Co.; Civil War items re damages, 1862, to Warren's plantation on Ashepoo Neck by Confederate forces under the command of Maj. R.J. Jefford, including the confiscation of Warren's slaves, the maiming and slaughter of livestock, and Warren's attempts to secure reimbursement from the Confederate government. Reconstruction-era materials document quartering of African-American troops in Walterboro, S.C.; Warren's efforts to resume cultivation of his lands; freedmen's contract, July 1865, re provisions and crop disbursement; letters from former overseers negotiating for management of Warren's land; and observations re the migration of freed people. Correspondents include R[ichard] S[tobo] Bedon, E[ustace] S[t.] P[ierre] Bellinger, Julius E. Chaplin, Ralph E[mms] Elliott, William Elliott, Benjamin Evans, C. Baring Farmer, Robert Fishburne, William H. Gilland, J. Edward Glover, A[mbrosio] J[ose] Gonzales, D[aniel] S[ullivan] Henderson, T[homas] Savage Heyward, J. Fraser Mathewes, Charles S. Minott, W.B. Minott, Joshua Nicholls, Charles Pinckney, A[lbert] M[oore] Rhett, Edmund Rhett, Haskell S[mith] Rhett, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Eliza B. Warren, Emma C. Warren, M.A. Warren, and William Dalton Warren. Places represented include Charleston, York, Rock Hill, and Erwinton, S.C., and the plantations of Ashepoo, Brick House, Chatoaw, Hickory Hill, Mary's Island, Montazuma, Smiley, Spring Hill, and Warren's Island, and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: 699 items.

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James Henry Hammond Papers, 1774-1875, (bulk 1823-1864)

Title: James Henry Hammond Papers 1774-1875 (bulk 1823-1864)

Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 38 containers plus 3 oversize; 10 linear feet; 20 microfilm reels

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Cobb, Nicholas, fl.1844-1861. Miscellaneous papers of the Hutter family [manuscript], 1685-1859.

Title: Miscellaneous papers of the Hutter family [manuscript], 1685-1859.

The collection contains a journal of Poplar Forest, containing daily events, slave lists, weather, and farming activities, 1844-1859 and an account book listing income and expenses at Poplar Forest, 1856-1861, kept by Nicholas Cobb. The collection also contains clipped signatures, and envelopes and cover sheets in the handwriting of several American and European figures of the 18th and 19th centuries including the Charles Bonaparte, the Duke of Cumberland (King of Hanover), Massacushetts governor Joseph Dudley, U.S. Senators Howell Cobb and Robert B. Rhett, and U. S. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. In addition a letter from Thomas B. McAdams to a Dr. Kincaid noting that he has a copy of a book by Carter Glass inscribed by the author.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

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Planters' and Mechanics' Bank of South Carolina. Records, 1840-1841.

Title: Records, 1840-1841.

Collection contains a cashier's letterpress book from the bank, chiefly concerning routine business matters. Among the correspondents are B.D. Boyd, Stephen Elliott, Franklin Elmore, Andrew A. Humphreys, William Louis, Stephen Mallory (1812-1873), Nicholas Murray, James L. Petigru, Daniel Ravenel, Robert B. Rhett, Romulus M. Saunders, and Robert Walton.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39224242 View