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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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Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864. Lawrence M. Keitt papers, 1858-1970; (bulk, 1858-1864.

Title: Lawrence M. Keitt papers, 1858-1970; (bulk, 1858-1864.

Including letter, 5 July 1858, to Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy, solicting patronage from his department in the form of advertising for the Charleston Mercury; letter, 20 May 1864, to John Wilson, explaining change in plans and notifying Wilson that he would leave his regiment at Florence, S.C., "Monday morning if nothing happens"; newspaper article re family history, with picture of the Keitt home; and list of papers, 1970, St. Matthews, S.C., in the Calhoun County Historical Commission, compiled by Mrs. Herbert T. Ulmer, Jr., Executive Secretary.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Davies, Thomas Jones, 1830-1902. Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Title: Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Primarily business records and correspondence, including deeds, plats, and tranfers of land, 1784-1863, in Georgia and South Carolina; bills, receipts and other documents, 1814-1817, re settlement of John Davies' estate; promissory notes and other financial records, 1871-1875, re Davies' railroad enterprises in Alabama and Mississippi; and bills for materials purchased by Davies and the partnership of Davies & Hammond, including letter, 1 July 1869, from M[arcus] C[laudius] M[arcellus] Hammond, B[eech] I[sland], S.C., re crop prospects, the labor shortage, and plans to employ Chinese workers on his plantation; and undated manuscript, "Estimates for the graduation, bridging[,] trestling[,] track-laying &c. of the Port Royal Rail Road." Also includes broadside, Graniteville, S.C., 22 Feb. 1862, soliciting recruits for Capt. Davies Guards, Co. F, 7th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers; and by Davies' Civil War pardon, 23 Apr. 1866, signed by Andrew Johnson and William H. Seward; and materials re Mrs. Davies' her continuation of her husband's export business after his death. Bound volumes include plantation journal documenting joint ownership, 1857-1863, of a plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., by Davies and Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond, and its subsequent ownership by Davies and P.L. Whitworth, 1866-1867, with information re African American slaves relocated from South Carolina to Mississippi and a list of free laborers on the plantation of Whitworth and Davies, providing names, ages, wages, and remarks re work potential; account book, Palmetto Fire Brick Works and Bath Fire Brick Works, 1862-1865, and 1870-1871, with accounts of Davies' work as contractor for the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad and the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad. Copy of genealogical information from a family Bible (filed in folder on-site) recording births, deaths, and marriages, ca. 1830 to 1865, of enslaved African American families working on properties in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi owned by Thomas Jones Davies. Vital statistics document eighty-two births, thirty-six deaths, and eleven marriages of enslaved individuals identified by name. Bilbe (published 1841), stored offsite. Invoice book, 1874-1880, for shipments of clay from Beech Island to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Savannah; and scrapbook, 1849-1903, containing newspapers articles by Davies, obituaries, autographs of Wade Hampton, M.C. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens, and newspaper clippings, 6 and 13 June 1888, disussing the operations of the "The Nonpariel Kaolin Mine," owned by a group, and the "Paragon Clay works, " owned by Davies in Aiken County, S.C. Other Correspondents include James Henry Hammond, Lawrence M. Keitt, L.M. Bickford and E.M. Sergeant.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

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Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864. Papers, 1855-1864.

Title: Papers, 1855-1864.

Correspondence relates to personal matters, politics, the American Party, society in Washington, D.C., Civil War campaigns, battles, and strategy, deserters and mutiny among the troops (Jan. 1864), and Keitt's command of the forces on Sullivan's Island, S.C. (1862-1864). Includes letters of condolence on Keitt's death in the Battle of Cold Harbor (June, 1864).

ArchivalResource: 146 items.

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Keitt, Ellison S. (Ellison Summerfield), 1831-1911. Ellison S. Keitt papers, 1847-1900.

Title: Ellison S. Keitt papers, 1847-1900.

Business papers, military commissions, and correspondence, including manuscript, 14 Jan. 1853, re agreement with James B. Magill foroperating a school at Union Church [Newberry Co., S.C.?] with a list of subscribers; 2 letters, 13 Dec. 1853 and 1 Jan. 1854, Washington, D.C., L[awrence] M. Keitt, re life in Washington, probable hostilities in upcoming session of Congress over slavery in the Nebraska, Kansas and Cherokee Territories, and reporting large numbers of South Carolinians in Florida. Letter, 4 Mar. [18]54, St. Matthews, S.C., from J[ohn] J[acob]Wannamaker, re area marriages and fire in Orangeburg, S.C.; 2 letters, 5 Sept. 1859 and 27 Mar. 1861, Branchville, S.C., D.W. Cameron, to Felicia Canfield, Maine, commenting on Branchville's new school and Methodist and Presbyterian Churches; letter 2 June [18]64, Chicora Academy, re death of Lawrence [M Keitt]; and letter, 29 Feb. 1867, Charleston, S.C., from Sue Sparks Keitt, cautioning Ellison Keitt against running for Congress prematurely. Also includes letter, 19 Jan. 1869, New York, N.Y., Edward Ham, to "Dear Gov." [Robert K. Scott?], re favorable impression of Ellison Keitt, Reconstruction in the South, motives of certain Northerners for waging war, and evaluation of Robert E. Lee, T.J. Jackson, Gen. [John Brown?] Gordon, and Wade Hampton; and manuscript, 10 July [18]76], "To the Editor [of the] News and Courier," with note to [Francis W.] Dawson, re supporting J[oseph] B. Kershaw and Johnson Hagood in coming election. Also including 2 letters, 19 and 20 Dec. 1879, Enoree Plantation, to F.W. Dawson, suggesting nomination of [U.S.] Grant and [Thomas F.] Bayard for president and vice-president; 2 manuscripts, ca. 1900, re Keitt's reminiscences, genealogical information, Keitt's childhood, education, Civil War service in Charleston, S.C., provisional government under Benjamin F. Perry, relations with freedmen, Northern travels, participation in political campaigns, Reconstruction, Wade Hampton's election, and Keitt's role in establishing the "Wallace House" in 1876 [refering to Hon. William Henry Wallace, who presided over the lower house of the General Assembly at the end of Reconstruction]; undated letter to his son, J[oseph] L. Keitt, requesting him to attend to some plantation business; and scrapbook, 1867-1876, with newspaper clippings re Reconstruction in South Carolina and activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

ArchivalResource: 57 items and 1 v.

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Boyce, William Walters, 1811-1890. Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to President Buchanan, 1858 Apr. 05.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, D.C., to President Buchanan, 1858 Apr. 05.

Recommending Edward G. Loring for office.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

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Tindall, J. W., d. 1864. J.W. Tindall papers, 1862-1864.

Title: J.W. Tindall papers, 1862-1864.

Chiefly Civil War letters of J.W. Tindall, Co. D, 20th Regt. S.C.V., to his wife, re his efforts to be sent home; including letter, 17 Nov. 1863, Mt. Pleasant, S.C., re impossibility of his coming home; letter, 17 May 1864, Charleston, S.C., re purchasing goods for his post; letter, 20 May 1864, Mt. Pleasant, S.C., re moving to Virginia, asking her not to worry and to concentrate on their family, and reminding her that they would meet again, if not in this world then in the next. Letter, 23 May 1864, Charleston, S.C., re delay in move to Richmond, Va., because of battle on James Island, S.C.; letter, 25 May 1864, Florence, S.C., re desertion by members of his regiment by jumping from the train and intention of Col. Lawrence M. Keitt to have the deserters shot; letter, 31 May 1864, Chickahominy, Va., re his arrival in Gen. Lee's army, describing Richmond, Va., and praying for end of the war. Letter, 18 June 1864, Fraysers Farm, Va., J.W. Tindall to his wife, re pain of separation and requesting family and slaves to pray for his safe return; letter, 17 July 1864, Petersburg, Va., Lt. B. Livingston to Mrs. J.W. Tindall, informing her of her husband's death from a leg wound and subsequent erysipelas.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

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Dantzler, Olin M., d. 1864. Olin M. Dantzler papers, 1861-1930.

Title: Olin M. Dantzler papers, 1861-1930.

Copies of letters of from Civil War-era, and clippings re Dantzler's life and his duel with Lawrence M. Keitt, with whom he later served in military service. Letter, 21 May 1861, "To my dear Children" in which Dantzler offers advice for the future should he not return, including recommendation that for marriage they select a woman "who is naturally smart ... who has been well educated ... "; and letter, 8 Sept. 1930, St. Matthews, S.C., from unidentified descendant to John B. Culbertson, Washington, D.C., including abstract of letter, 12 Aug. 1863, Battery Wagner, S.C., Thomas W. Dantzler to "Capt. W.F. Mance, AAG," reporting injury of O.M. Dantzler, who suffered a shot to the chest. Newspaper clippings featuring biographical sketches of Dantzler and Lawrence M. Keitt, written at time of a veterans reunion in Orangeburg, S.C.; and essay, published 13 Jue 1909, in "The Sunday News" [Charleston Evening Post], re duel between Dantzler and Lawrence M. Keitt, fought over the state line in North Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

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Eulogy on Mr. Calhoun, 1850 July 4.

Title: Eulogy on Mr. Calhoun, 1850 July 4.

Handwritten eulogy on John C. Calhoun. The eulogy is addressed to Mr. L.M. Keitt, July 4th, 1850, Orangeburg, South Carolina, from Miss Ella.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (35 p.)

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Jamison, David Flavel, 1810-1864. Papers, 1860-1864.

Title: Papers, 1860-1864.

Includes correspondence while Jamison was Secretary of War of South Carolina, 1861; scattered letters and papers pertaining to the South Carolina Secession Convention of which he was president, and papers related to his tenure as presiding judge of the military court of Beauregard's Corps, 1862-1864.

ArchivalResource: ca. 125 items (10 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23823463 View

Herd, E. Don (Elmer Don), 1932-1980. E. Don Herd papers, 1931-1996 (bulk, 1950-1970).

Title: E. Don Herd papers, 1931-1996 (bulk, 1950-1970).

Consisting chiefly of papers, articles, essays, reports, and other writings by Herd and correspondence re his work as historian, professor, college president, Methodist lay leader, and member of the Lancaster and Greenwood County Historical Societies, Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, Scholarly Activities Committee of the South Carolina Tricentennial Commission, and 1966 World Methodist Conference in London, England. Research correspondence, notes, and reports document Herd's scholarly interest in various historical figures: President Andrew Jackson; physician, naturalist, and scientist John Perkins Barratt (1795-1859); U.S. Representative Lawrence M. Keitt; and Francis Salvador, a delegate from S.C. in the First Provincial Continental Congress who was said to be the first Jew in the western world elected to public office; Salvadore acquired extensive tracts of land in backcountry S.C. during the Colonial era, but lost his life during the American Revolution. Also includes research files on the following topics: Belton, Honea Path, and Williamston, S.C.; and the Mt. Ariel and Cokesbury schools.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40100402 View