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Overall, John Wilford, 1823-1899. Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. John S. Preston, Chief, Bureau of Conscription, 1864 Mar.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Richmond, to Col. John S. Preston, Chief, Bureau of Conscription, 1864 Mar.

Regarding the military exemption of his employee, Charles H. Erwin, and enclosing a copy of a letter from Senator Edward Sparrow of Louisiana.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

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Preston family letters

Title: Preston family letters

Correspondence with Hiram Powers;and Preston family papers and sketches.

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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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Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881. Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Samuel McGowan, 1863 Feb. 18.

Title: Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Samuel McGowan, 1863 Feb. 18.

Autograph letter signed. Preston writes that he is unable to provide work for a Lieutenant Jones. He also congratulates Brigadier General McGowan on his promotion.

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

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Beirne, Oliver, fl. 1860-1896. Oliver Beirne papers, 1860-1896 [manuscript].

Title: Oliver Beirne papers, 1860-1896 [manuscript].

Business papers, including letters from a business associate, John Echols (1823-1899), and correspondence between Beirne's son-in-law, William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) and Beverly R. Johnston over a law suit involving a property dispute with John Smith Preston (1809-1881) of Abingdon, Va. Also included are bills, receipts, financial records, railroad stocks, and papers relating to the management of the Houmas Plantation, Ascension Parish, La.

ArchivalResource: About 350 items (0.5 linear ft.).

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Survivors' Association of the State of South Carolina. Survivors' Association of the State of South Carolina records, 1861-1878.

Title: Survivors' Association of the State of South Carolina records, 1861-1878.

Records include correspondence, an executive board report (ca. 1870), Survivor's Association constitution, a report on Hagood's brigade, an address of John S. Preston, miscellaneous speeches, scattered lists of Confederate soldiers, commanders, survivors, etc., blank forms, and other miscellaneous items. Letters (1869-1878) to Col. Edward McCrady, A.C. Haskell, Ellison Capers, Johnson Hagood, Samuel McGowan, William James Rivers, James Conner, J.B. Hood, John S. Preston, J.A. Early, William E. Earle, Wade Hampton III, William Wallace, W.H. Wallace, and James Chesnut from Charleston, Columbia, Union, S.C., and New Orleans, La., Richmond, Va., Ala., and elsewhere about establishment of the Survivors' Association, the fate of Confederate troops and regiments, William J. Rivers' work on a roster of South Carolinians in Confederate service, and other matters. Also includes letters, reports, and other records concerning the naval bombardment of Fort Walker, Hilton Head, and elsewhere. Contains a report (1861 December 15) by William H. Trescot on engagement of November 6 and 7, 1861 and a report (July 31, 1864) regarding the strengths of the Army of Tennessee, Also contains inspection papers (1863) of heavy artillery on James Island (S.C.).

ArchivalResource: ca. 500 items.

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King's Mountain Centennial Association. King's Mountain Centennial Association records, 1880-1910.

Title: King's Mountain Centennial Association records, 1880-1910.

Chiefly correspondence of Col. A[sbury] Coward, Chairman of the Centennial Committee, and Miss Lesslie D. Witherspoon, President of the Association, re appointment of committees, invitations, program and publicity connected with the "Centennial Celebration," 7 Oct. 1880, of the Battle of King's Mountain, and the dedication, 7 Oct. 1909, of the monument erected by the U.S. Government; including 9 letters, 12 Mar. - 23 Sept. 1880, Copse Hill, Ga., Paul H[amilton] Hayne, to A[sbury] Coward, re preparation of an ode to be delivered at the Centennial; letters from various Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee officials, South Carolina Governors Martin F. Ansel, Thomas B. Jeter, and Johnson Hagood, Ellison Capers, J[ohn] P[eyre] Thomas, H[erbert] R[avenel] Sass, John S. Preston, and J[ohn] C[alvin] Hemphill; and correspondence with various officials in the War Department re inscriptions for the monument and plans for dedication.

ArchivalResource: 189 items.

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Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881. Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Samuel McGowan, 1863 Feb. 18.

Title: Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Samuel McGowan, 1863 Feb. 18.

Autograph letter signed. Preston writes that he is unable to provide work for a Lieutenant Jones. He also congratulates Brigadier General McGowan on his promotion.

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

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Coal & Barre. To Coale & Barre, for subscription to the Abingdon Virginian.

Title: To Coale & Barre, for subscription to the Abingdon Virginian. March 25, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 9 x 16 cm.

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Sparkman, Frazer,. Records, 1861-1865.

Title: Records, 1861-1865.

Confederate records collected by Green, including the Special Order log (1861-1862) from the Confederate Mustering Office, Columbia, South Carolina; Special Order logs (1864-1865), letterbook (1864-1865), telegrams (1865), letters (1865), and telegram log (1864-1865) from the military posts at Columbia and Chester, South Carolina; the telegram log includes Green's postwar patient accounts (1866-1867).

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

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Maupin, S. (Socrates), 1808-1871. Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1853-1870.

Title: Papers of Socrates Maupin [manuscript] 1853-1870.

Letters and papers concerning Socrates Maupin and the University of Virginia where he was chairman of the faculty and chemistry professor. Material on military status of students in Civil War. Correspondents include John M. Daniel, R. T.W. Duke, Walter Gwynn, Alfred Iverson, James Young Mason, James Murray Mason, R. C. L. Moncure, Thomas Jefferson Page, Thomas George Pratt, John S. Preston, John White Stevenson, George Tucker, William Cabell Rives.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

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Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881. John S. Preston correspondence, 1855-1866.

Title: John S. Preston correspondence, 1855-1866.

Correspondence includes letters to James Simons, Sr., from John Smith Preston and his son John Preston, Jr. in France and elsewhere, and letters from W.F. DeSaussure in Columbia, S.C., regarding a legal case, Preston v. Hampton and Manning. De Saussure's letter (6 Jan. 1866) to James Simons, Sr. also states that the archives of the Society of the Cinncinnati in the State of South Carolina were destroyed when his house in Columbia was burned by Gen. Sherman's army in Feb. 1865 ("It will be an additional satisfaction to Gen. Sherman to know that he has destroyed these sacred relics.").

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Gilland, Nell Flinn. Hiram Powers vertical file, 1939 Mar. 1 - 1941 Apr.

Title: Hiram Powers vertical file, 1939 Mar. 1 - 1941 Apr.

Newspaper articles and other ephemera about surviving works of sculptor Hiram Powers (1805-1873) at the Hampton-Preston house in Columbia, S.C., and associations with his patron, Col. John S. Preston (1809-1881) of South Carolina. Feature article, 1 Mar. 1939 (The State newspaper), "Columbia Visitor Learns of Uncle's Work in City," re a nephew of Hiram Powers, Dr. John A. Kingsbury's, discovery of his uncle's work as a sculptor in Columbia S.C. Articles, 1940-1941, include a photograph from the State newspaper of a mantel at the Hampton-Preston house in Columbia, S.C., attributed to Hiram Powers, and "Work of Hiram Powers Still Adorns Columbia Places" (in The State, Apr. 1940). Bulletin, April 1941, published by The Garden Club of South Carolina, re "News of the Hampton-Preston Restoration," discussing restoration of the garden of the Hampton-Preston house.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Civil War era letters, 1861, 1862, 1864.

Title: Civil War era letters, 1861, 1862, 1864.

The collection consists of three Civil War era letters. The first letter was written by James E. Wilkins of Virginia to Colonel John Preston on January 23, 1861. In the letter Wilkins pledges his services to South Carolina. The second letter, written September 11, 1862 to John H. Easton, was from a Mr. Helton. In the letter Helton discusses his recovery from injuries suffered during the war. In the third letter, "C.A. Strange" discusses war time conditions to her brother.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Hampton family. Hampton family papers, 1773-1974.

Title: Hampton family papers, 1773-1974.

Antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons: Wade Hampton I (1752-1835), army officer and U.S. representative from Virginia; Wade Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army officer and governor and U.S. senator of South Carolina. Papers are of Wade Hampton I concern operations at Houmas, his sugar plantation in Ascension Parish (Louisiana), and his South Carolina rice and cotton plantations, including the purchase of plantation supplies and the marketing of his crops, chiefly 1829-1835. Personal papers of Wade Hampton II and Wade Hampton III include letters to Mary Fisher Hampton, daughter and sister, respectively, concerning family, social, and plantation news from Walnut Ridge and Wild Woods, Miss., and letters from Wade Hampton III to his first wife, Margaret (Preston) Hampton (b. 1851), from England and Scotland, 1846 (typed transcript copies); and to his second wife in the late 1850s and during the Civil War. Later papers include materials dating to Reconstruction, later 19th century, and 20th century papers re politics, family history, farming operations, land and real estate, and other topics.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2 linear ft.

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Davie, Preston, 1881-1967. Papers, 1750-1967 (bulk 1924-1966).

Title: Papers, 1750-1967 (bulk 1924-1966).

Consist primarily of the correspondence, 1924-1966, of Preston Davie (1881-1967) concerning the Preston family and genealogical notes regarding the Ballard, Brooke, Campbell, Dudley, Hampton, Hubard, Patton, Preston, Smith, and Wickliffe families. Also, include papers of members of the Preston and related families. Items include speeches and a letter, 1774-1775, of William Preston (1729-1783) concerning Cherokee Indians in the Revolutionary War; correspondence, 1812-1841, of William Campbell Preston (1794-1860); correspondence, 1861-1864, of John Smith Preston (1809-1881) concerning his service in the Confederate States Bureau of Conscription; letters, 1878-1886, of William Preston (1816-1887); and correspondence, 1844-1862, of Charles Anderson Wickliffe (1788-1869) with James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, James Knox Polk, and John Tyler concerning, in part, the annexation of Texas. Also, papers collected by Preston Davie. Items include a patent, 1750, issued for land in Augusta County, Va.; and rent rolls, 1773-1794, of the Northern Neck Proprietary of Virginia for Culpeper and Northumberland counties, Va.

ArchivalResource: 633 items.

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Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881. Letter, 1862 Feb. 20, Columbia, S.C., to Robert E. Lee.

Title: Letter, 1862 Feb. 20, Columbia, S.C., to Robert E. Lee.

Request from Lt. Col. Preston, Mustering Office, Columbia, S.C., requesting that Enfield Rifles be issued to Capt. [John?] Jenkins; with appended response from Lee, 25 Feb. 1862, indicating that the guns were reserved for regular troops. This letter is believed to refer to Capt. John Jenkins (1824-1905). Jenkins organized a company of mounted riflemen in Charleston District. His command was mustered into Confederate service as an independent company 17 Feb. 1862.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881. John S. Preston papers, 1854-1936.

Title: John S. Preston papers, 1854-1936.

Papers documenting Preston's political activities and opinions, including letter, 22 Oct. 1854, New York, N.Y., to Gov. [John Lawrence] Manning, discussing necessity of England's remaining on friendly terms with the slave states that produced cotton, discrediting false rumors of England's attempts to "Africanize Cuba," and reporting discussion of efforts to modify "our colored seaman law." Papers documenting the era of secession include letter, 17 Feb. 1861, Richmond, Va., "Confidential," to "My Dear Sir," [Gov. Francis Wilkinson Pickens?], reporting on attitudes and factions within the Virginia Convention re secession, acknowledging courteous treatment, but detecting feelings of irritation against South Carolina, "Virginia will not take sides until she is absolutely forced... tendency is to an alliance with the Northern States...." Letter, 4 Apr. 1877, Columbia, S.C., to W.H. Gibbes, Nathaniel Barnwell, and Hugh S. Thompson, re omission of Preston's name from "the Delegation to the Diocesan Convention." Other items include newspaper clippings, 1879-1936, including photocopy of news coverage, [13 May 1879], Columbia, S.C., of unveiling of monument to Confederate soldiers in Columbia with speech presented by Preston; undated clipping, questioning legality of adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment; obituary, ca. May 1881, The News and Courier, re Preston's patronage of Hiram Powers; and clipping, State, 22 Mar. 1936, re art works formerly owned by Preston and recent identification of a Raphael as having once belonged to his collection.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38195228 View

Wallace, Andrew, 1783-1862. Andrew Wallace papers, 1807-1876.

Title: Andrew Wallace papers, 1807-1876.

Chiefly civil war letters, and stock certificates and subscriptions of Columbia & Saluda Bridge Company, Commercial Bank of Columbia, and Insurance Company of Columbia, S.C., including unbound volume, 1818, Rules of the Charleston Fire and Marine Insurance Company, with notations adapting rules to apply to the Columbia Insurance Company of Columbia, S.C. Indenture, 20 Oct. 1821, between Joe Coal, a freedman, and John Neil, paying Coal $55.62 and lasting two years; manuscript, 4 May 1830, Richland District, S.C., Alexander Herbemont conveying lot on Columbia Canal to Purvis, Wheeler and Company; contract, 1 Apr. 1831, between John L. Livingston and trustees of Washington Methodist Church, re specifications and schedule for their new building and paying the contractor. Four manuscripts, 7 Jan. 1834, 9 Jan. 1835, 5 July 1838, and 1 Jan. 1839, re financial statements of the Charleston Fire and Marine Insurance Company; 3 manuscripts, 1 July 1836 and 1 Jan. 1838, re financial statements of the Insurance Company of Columbia; manuscript, 6 Feb. 1837, Cheraw and Columbia, S.C., re stock subscribers of the Bank of Georgetown; receipt, 13 Feb. 1837, re payment of William Wallace's tuition. Six letters, 29 Dec. 1852-15 Jan. 1853, Columbia, S.C., William B. Wallace and Jane Yates, Charleston, S.C., re their interest in purchasing a large house owned by a Mr. Barksdale and including architectural description; letter, 27 July 1861, from Edwin J. Scott, Columbia, S.C., re Wallace's stock dividends, the Civil War, and troop movements through Columbia. Also including letter, 13 May 1862, from John S. Preston, Columbia, S.C., re his desire to establish an instructional camp across the Congaree River, requesting reduced tolls, and citing revenue the camp would bring the Columbia & Saluda Bridge Company; letter, 14 May 1862, from Edward Wallace, Army of the Peninsula, re his advancement from private to 3rd Lieutenant, description of Richmond during the Army's retreat from Yorktown, and news of friends.

ArchivalResource: 173 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40810710 View