Waring, Thomas S., d. 1894. Thomas S. Waring papers 1849-1894, bulk 1862-1870.
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Thomas S. Waring papers 1849-1894, bulk 1862-1870.
Chiefly consisting of family letters and Civil War correspondence, as well as several written during Reconstruction and later. Including seventeen letters, 15 May 1862-25 Oct. 1862, Thomas Waring, Johns Island, S.C., and various camps near Richmond, Va., and Maryland, to Rebecca B. Waring, re troop movements, battles, camp life, and duties as assistant surgeon in Longstreet's Division; letter, 1 Sept. 1862, near Manassas, Va., to Rebbecca Waring, re battlefield experiences at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run and wound suffered by T.S. Waring; letter, 25 0ct. 1862, near Winchester, Va., re professional and social courtesies extended to T.S. Waring. Nine letters, 9 May - 21 July 1870, written from New York, N.Y., and Venezula, South America, to family members, re T.S. Waring's trip to South America, and his establishment of an emigrant settlement populated by expatriate former Confederates in Venuzuela, South America. Letter, 3 June 1881, Columbia, S.C., from John C. Faber, condolences re death of T.S. Waring's father, Paul Hamilton Waring; 4 letters, 24 Nov. 1893-6 Jan. 1894, Charleston and "Megget's," S.C., to Mary V. Chaplain, re T.S. Waring's unrequited love for Chaplain; undated poem, "Palmetto Ballads No. 2. The Legend of the Cotton Plant," Charleston, S.C., by "F.M.," re birth of cotton crops in S.C., and undated short story by Miss S[usan] Waring of Young's Island [Colleton County, S.C.], "Carrie's Visitor's: A tale of North Edisto Inlet."
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