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Pringle, James Reid. Business correspondence, 1847-1875; (bulk 1863-1864).

Title: Business correspondence, 1847-1875; (bulk 1863-1864).

Correspondence relating to Pringle's business operations. Much of the material is from the Civil War years and concerns economic conditions in Charleston, the uncertainty of rail transportation, the scarcity of horses, mules, wagons, and sacks for shipping rice, and other matters. Correspondents include Benjamin Huger, F.W. Pickens, and P.C.J. Weston.

ArchivalResource: 320 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20120967 View

Du Pont, Francis Gurney, 1850-1904. Papers, 1844-1900.

Title: Papers, 1844-1900.

The records consist of Francis Gurney du Pont's student lecture and laboratory notes; letters; technical notes and papers; records of gunpowder production; patent specifications and drawings; patent correspondence; and printed patents related to gunpowder. There are also a few items from Alfred V. du Pont, Lammot du Pont and Pierre S. du Pont.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516277 View

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).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122548140 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Papers of Benjamin Huger [manuscript], 1780-1877 (bulk 1821-1877).

Title: Papers of Benjamin Huger [manuscript], 1780-1877 (bulk 1821-1877).

Huger's papers trace his army career from West Point through the Mexican and Civil wars to retirement in Fauquier County, Va. During the Mexican War he served as Winfield Scott's chief of ordnance and the bulk of the papers are from this command. They include personal and official correspondence, statistics, accounts, orders, reports, maps and a small account book that originally belonged to a paymaster in the Mexican Army. The collection also contains correspondence from family in Charleston, S. C., from family and friends abroad, from friends serving in the Seminole Indian wars in Florida and from an 1850 tour of European ordnance manufacturers. An interesting group attempts to prove Huger's innocence in the Talcott affair involving an unauthorized purchase of shot. The Civil War papers contain correspondence from his sons in Texas and a letter book recording prisoner exchanges and truces for burial and search details. Post war papers of Huger and his sons try to vindicate his conduct in the battle of Seven Pines. The collection also contains an extract from the journal of Robert Kirkwood describing the battle of Camden, S. C. in 1780. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Charles M. Conrad, Jefferson Davis, Josiah Gorgas, Hugh Swinton Legaré, Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee, Joel R. Poinsett, George Wythe Randolph, Daniel E. Sickles, Gustavus W. Smith, Leroy Pope Walker and John E. Wool. There are also documents signed by John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay and John Letcher.

ArchivalResource: 3 reels: positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837666 View

Barnes, John S. (John Sanford), 1836-1911. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1756-1931.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1756-1931.

The collection consists of more than 1,100 letters, clippings, reprints, and other documents amassed by John Sanford Barnes and others to, from, and about notable persons including many with named series in the Naval History Society Collection (e.g., William Bainbridge, John Barry , French E. Chadwick, Gustavus Conyngham, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Caspar F. Goodrich, Isaac Hull, John Paul Jones, Richard Worsam Meade 3rd, Oliver Hazard Perry, and Henry A. Wise). Highlights of the series include documents signed by Presidents John Quincy Adams and James Madison; others signed by John C. Calhoun, Salmon P. Chase, Richard Henry Dana, David Farragut, Robert Fulton, John Hancock, Rufus King, Seth Low, Robert Morris, and Matthew C. Perry; and a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair removed after his death and sent by Robert Todd Lincoln to Gustavus Vasa Fox at the latter's request. Among David Porter's letters are cartoons and drawings by him, including one of animal-headed naval officers listening to explanations of the value of steam-powered vessels, which complement others in the Naval History Society's Fox collection. The William Smith folder includes a map of an attack on Whampoa, China, in 1870. It is unclear what Barnes's connection was to Nikola Tesla: letters from him indicate that he had visited Barnes in New York in 1904.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 linear ft. (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/480242487 View

Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

Title: Brown-Ewell family papers, 1781-1984.

The collection is comprised of papers of George Washington Campbell, the Polk family, Plunkett family, Brown family, and Richard S. Ewell. Correspondence relates in part the activities and experiences of these allied families in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of particular interest is the antebellum political and Civil War military papers of the families; including letters written to General William Polk from prominent individuals discussing politics and other matters, and letters written by Confederate General Richard S. Ewell while a prisoner of war in 1865. Correspondents include Pierre G.T. Beauregard, John Bell, Montgomery Blair, George Washington Campbell, William Eastin, William H. Eaton, Benjamin S. Ewell, Thomas I. Green, Felix Grundy, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson, Joseph E. Johnston, Abraham Lincoln, James Otey, James K. Polk, Leonidas Polk, John Randolph, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Martin Van Buren, Felix K. Zollicoffer, and others. Family members represented include Lizinka Campbell Brown Ewell, her son, George Campbell Brown, her daughter, Harriot Brown Turner, Percy Brown, Joseph Plunkett, James Dace Plunkett, Thomas Plunkett, and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 7 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49230544 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Papers of Benjamin Huger, 1780-1877 (bulk 1821-1877).

Title: Papers of Benjamin Huger, 1780-1877 (bulk 1821-1877).

Huger's papers trace his army career from West Point through the Mexican and Civil wars to retirement in Fauquier County, Va. During the Mexican War he served as Winfield Scott's chief of ordnance and the bulk of the papers are from this command. They include personal and official correspondence, statistics, accounts, orders, reports, maps and a small account book that originally belonged to a paymaster in the Mexican Army. The collection also contains correspondence from family in Charleston, S.C., from family and friends abroad, from friends serving in the Seminole Indian wars in Florida and from an 1850 tour of European ordnance manufacturers. An interesting group attempts to prove Huger's innocence in the Talcott affair involving an unauthorized purchase of shot. The Civil War papers contain correspondence from his sons in Texas and a letter book recording prisoner exchanges and truces for burial and search details. Post war papers of Huger and his sons try to vindicate his conduct in the battle of Seven Pines. The collection also contains an extract from the journal of Robert Kirkwood describing the battle of Camden, S.C. in 1780. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Charles M. Conrad, Jefferson Davis, Josiah Gorgas, Hugh Swinton Legaré, Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee, Joel R. Poinsett, George Wythe Randolph, Daniel E. Sickles, Gustavus W. Smith, Leroy Pope Walker and John E. Wool. There are also documents signed by John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay and John Letcher.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31254240 View

United States. Army. Ordnance Corps. Correspondence [manuscript] 1824-40.

Title: Correspondence [manuscript] 1824-40.

Letters of routine military business directed to commanding officers at Fort Monroe (Va.) Those officers are: Rufus Lathrop Baker, William Haywood Bell, Peter Valentine Hagner, Benjamin Huger and William Maynadier.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647932017 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Papers, 1783-1862.

Title: Papers, 1783-1862.

Principally correspondence dealing with the manufacture of ammunition by Joseph Reid Anderson and Dr. Carmichael for Fortress Monroe and the armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. (now W. Va.), 1850-1851. Also included are a letter of 1803 from Daniel Huger, secretary of state, to the South Carolina legislature requesting an appropriation for the repair of the building where the records were kept; an indenture, 1824; a letter from John P. Martin discussing the problems of the mail and stage service; and letter, 1862, of Huger to Josiah Tattnall concerning military and naval operations in Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19851272 View

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867,. Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Title: Lee family papers [microform] 1652 [1769-1870] 1890.

Correspondence, accounts, deeds, and legal documents. Letterbooks, 1769-1771, 1775-1776, & 1793-1795, of William Lee, a partner in deBendt & Sayre, London, comprise the bulk of the collection. Letters to business associates primarily discuss the tobacco trade. Letters to his brothers Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee contain frequent political commentary on events in England & the colonies, and mention most of the prominent revolutionary Virginia leaders as well as their Parliamentary supporters. In addition to the letterbooks there are genealogies, deeds, indentures, wills, and other legal documents, correspondence of family members including many of Robert Edward Lee and other Civil War leaders. Correspondents include John Albion Andrew, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, John James Beckley, Francis Preston Blair, Braxton Bragg, John Cabell Breckenridge, Ambrose Everett Burnside, Nathaniel Burwell, Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, William Daniel Cabell, Landon Carter, Robert Wormeley Carter, Salmon Portland Chase, Samuel Cooper, Hannah Lee Corbin, Richard Corbin, Henry Knox Craig, Jefferson Davis, Jubal Anderson Early, Richard Stoddert Ewell, Thomas Fairfax, George Gibson, Josiah Gorgas, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Nathanael Greene, Henry Heth, Daniel Harvey Hill, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Oliver Otis Howard, Benjamin Huger, William Irvine, Thomas S. Thomas Sidney Jesup, Andrew Johnson, Edward Johnson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Albert Sidney Johnston, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. Sidney Lanier, Arthur Lee, Charles Lee, Fitzhugh Lee, Mary Ann Randolph Custis Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Thomas Lee, John Letcher, Abraham Lincoln, James Longstreet, William Mahone, George Brinton McClellan, Lafayette McLaws, George Mason, George Gordon Meade, Robert Carter Nicholas, Edward Follansbee Noyes, George Edward Pickett, Franklin Pierce, Alfred Pleasonton, Roger Atkinson Pryor, George Wythe Randolph, John Cook Rives, Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur Comte de Rochambeau, Winfield Scott, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, William Shippen, Edmund Kirby Smith, William Smith, James Ewell Brown Stuart, Andrew Talcott, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Augustus Toombs, Jonathan Trumbull, David Emanuel Twiggs, Zebulon Baird Vance, George Washington, John Wentworth, John Henry Winder, Henry Alexander Wise, John Ellis Wool, and Marcus Joseph Wright.

ArchivalResource: 2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647972016 View

Huger, Benjamin. Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger.

Title: Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger. 1816.

Lecture notes taken by Huger, from Nathaniel Chapman's lectures on Materia medica.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18828145 View

Huger, Benjamin. Notes / Benjamin Huger.

Title: Notes / Benjamin Huger. [n.d.]

Notes taken by Huger from Nathaniel Chapman's (?) Medical essays.

ArchivalResource: 158 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18828943 View

Ryan, John S. John S. Ryan papers, 1858-186[3?].

Title: John S. Ryan papers, 1858-186[3?].

Letters from J.S. Ryan in Charleston, S.C., to Andrew F. Giraud, [New York]: letter, 13 Dec. 1858, expressing regrets for not attending a sister's wedding and mention of horse trading; letter, 4 Dec. 1860, re political conditions in S.C. and popular support for secession, "We are all for Secession.... Business is suspended... and all are preparing for war"; letter, 20 Dec. 1860, enthusiasm for war and suggesting that all free people of color be banished and sent to the North; and letter, 30 Jan. 1861, re disruption to business and shipping by hostilities, reporting "difficulty in getting goods to our Republic... S.C..... is right... fire on the Stars & Stripes," predicting the surrender of Fort Sumter and Fort Pickens, and sending "My Secession love to all." Letter, 15 Jan. 1861 (Charleston, S.C.), to "Dear Sir," commenting on extreme opinions expressed in the Mercury newspaper and the misrepresentations of the views of the North but pointing out that the South's position had also been misrepresented, "The South... has been traduced... her institutions have been slandered, her property taken away from her forcibly, and last of all her soil has been invanded," and stating his support for secession in spite of the economic implications for himself, "It may deprive me of the earning of a long life, yet I am fully confident," and news of aquaintances. Letter, 14 Aug. 1862, to Gen. [James] J[ohnston] Pettigrew, informing him that G[eorge] A. Trenholm and T[heodore] D. Wagner had sent to Richmond "An elegant Sword... to you," and fifty lbs. of coffee for Gen. [John Henry] Winder, with note from Pettigrew to Winder re the gift; and letter, 13 Mar. 186[3?] of Benj[amin] Huger to Ryan, testifying to the efficient discharge of his duties as "Post Commissary at Suffolk in 1861-62."

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31399840 View

Huger, Benjamin. Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger.

Title: Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger. 1817.

Lecture notes taken by Huger from Nathaniel Chapman's lectures on physiology.

ArchivalResource: unpaged.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18828106 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Autograph notes, 1848 Nov. 17 [on opposite page].

Title: Autograph notes, 1848 Nov. 17 [on opposite page].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269546738 View

Clarke, J. Lyle. Civil War order, 1862 May 10.

Title: Civil War order, 1862 May 10.

Order from General Benjamin Huger, headquarters 1st Division, Department of Norfolk, Va., penned and signed by his adjutant, J. Lyle Clarke, to Lt. Col. Fletcher Harris Archer, notifying him of the evacuation of the Gosport Navy Yard at Norfolk, and directing him to hold his position as long as possible and to blow up his forts, spike his guns, burn his carriages, and destroy his buildings before he is compelled to leave.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70971088 View

John Buchanan Floyd Papers

Title: John Buchanan Floyd Papers

Papers, 1831-1863, of John B. Floyd, governor of Virginia, United States Secretary of War and Confederate general. The papers, chiefly 1850-1862, concern the three positions he held. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Jefferson Davis, Samuel Houston, Benjamin Huger, Alexander von Humboldt, R. M. T. Hunter, Charles James Faulkner, Jenny Lind, James Murray Mason, William Ballard Preston, Winfield Scott, John Tyler, Daniel Webster and the Duke of Wellington.

ArchivalResource: 0.50 Linear Feet

https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/2/resources/958 View

Huger, Benjamin. Notes / Benjamin Huger.

Title: Notes / Benjamin Huger. 1817.

Notes taken by Huger from Nathaniel Chapman's (?) On the practice of physic.

ArchivalResource: 166 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18829062 View

Huger, Benjamin. Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger.

Title: Lecture notes / Benjamin Huger. [n.d.]

Lecture notes taken by Huger from Nathaniel Chapman's private lectures.

ArchivalResource: unpaged.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18828112 View

Read, John Braham. John B. Read papers, 1861.

Title: John B. Read papers, 1861.

Papers consist of two letters, a statement, and drawings pertaining to Dr. John B. Read's invention of the "Read shell" for rifled cannon. A letter (contemporary copy, June 1861) to Dr. John B. Read in Tuscaloosa (Ala.) from Gen. Benjamin Huger (commander of the Department of Norfolk) in Norfolk (Va.) recognizes that the rifled cannons used in Virginia and procured from Parrott were of Read's design and that Read should get credit and reward for them. A letter (Sept. 1861) from John B. Read in Norfolk addressed to Gen. [sic] A. J. Gonzales in Richmond (Va.) forwards drawings of the shells and gives detailed information about them. A statement by Read dated September 7, 1861, details information about the range of the "Read shell" and mentions several battles in which they were used. Drawings by Read depict the shells and include explanatory notes.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722808899 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Autograph letter signed : Fortress Monroe, [18]48 Nov. 28.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Fortress Monroe, [18]48 Nov. 28.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269524889 View

Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898. George Washington Rains papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864) [manuscript].

Title: George Washington Rains papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864) [manuscript].

Papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the U.S. and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains.

ArchivalResource: About 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24561253 View

Talcott family. Papers, 1814-1890.

Title: Papers, 1814-1890.

This collection consists primarily of materials concerning Andrew Talcott (1797-1883) and his son, Thomas Mann Randolph Talcott (1838- 1920). The correspondence, 1815-1844, of Andrew Talcott, while at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and while serving in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, concerns life at West Point and various commissions in the U.S. Army. Items pertaining to T.M.R. Talcott in the collection include official letters, 1861-1863, offering Talcott various commissions in the Confederate Corps of Engineers, and affidavits, 1865, of Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) attesting to Talcott's character. Correspondents in the collection include, among others, Benjamin Huger (1805-1877), Jeremy Francis Gilmer (1818-1883), and George Wythe Randolph (1818-1867).

ArchivalResource: 51 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36039951 View

Pinckney family papers, 1708-1878.

Title: Pinckney family papers, 1708-1878.

Correspondence, accounts, receipts, land, legal, estate, and other papers of Charles Pinckney (1699-1758), Elizabeth (Lucas) Pinckney (1721-1793), Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), Harriott (Pinckney) Horry (1748-1830), Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), and other members of the Pinckney and related families. Most of the papers belong to the second generation of Pinckneys and reflect family affairs and plantation life in South Carolina in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes six letter books (1791-1814) of Thomas Pinckney containing copies of his diplomatic correspondence as minister to Great Britain, relating to his negotiations with Spain, and covering his command of the 6th and 7th Districts in the War of 1812; and letters and passports (1828-1829) relating to Benjamin Huger's "grand tour" of Europe.

ArchivalResource: 76 microfiche.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132283 View

Huger, Benjamin, 1805-1877. Letter : Fort Monroe, to "My dear Major," 1846 May 29.

Title: Letter : Fort Monroe, to "My dear Major," 1846 May 29.

Letter congratulates the recipient on the success of "our army" and discusses military appointments, the Mexican War, weaponry, and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36866120 View

J.C. & C.K. Huger (Charleston, S.C.). J.C. & C.K. Huger account book, 1840-1846.

Title: J.C. & C.K. Huger account book, 1840-1846.

Volume, an account book of merchants J.C. & C.K. Huger, contains accounts primarily of cash received and sundries paid. Names which occur most frequently in the accounts are of John Ashe Alston, Benjamin F. Dunkin, Thomas R.S. Elliott, Alfred Huger, Dr. Benjamin Huger, Thomas P. Huger, Jonathan Lucas, F.G. Rolando, L. Trapmann, and A.P. Trouche. Also included are wharfage, rice accounts, tobacco accounts, wine purchases, consignment accounts, commissions accounts, and other entries.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141344 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