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Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th. 4th Regiment order book, 1861-1862.

Title: 4th Regiment order book, 1861-1862.

Volume includes handwritten and printed orders and copies of orders received by the regimental commander, Colonel J.B.E. Sloan and acting commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Stark Mattison at Columbia, South Carolina and while in the vicinity of Manassas Junction, Virginia between April 1861 and January 1862, during which time the unit participated in the First Battle of Bull Run. Orders are from Col. Anderson, S.R. Gist, Hutson Lee, N.G. Evans, O.K. McLemore, Thomas Jordan, T.G. Rhett, D.R. Jones, at Charleston, South Carolina and at Richmond, Manassas, Germantown, and other locations in Virginia. Orders include information about troop movements and engagements.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Nagel, Percy. Percy Nagel papers, 1852-1864; (bulk, 1861-1864).

Title: Percy Nagel papers, 1852-1864; (bulk, 1861-1864).

Consisting of letters and receipts to Nagel's mother, Mary P. Nagel, chiefly re military service in or near vicinity of James Island, Pocotaligo, and Charleston, S.C., Madison, Fla., and various places. Also including letter, 25 Mar. 1859 [Charleston], to Mother, Summerville, [S.C.], re his dissatisfaction with relatives who required his attendance at dancing school, and an account of a large number of people attending the public hanging of a man for burglary, including a strong contingent of the Charleston Riflemen and the police. Civil War items include letter, 14 Jan. 1862, re camp life at James Island and meeting Gen. [Clement Anselm] Evans; letter, 12 Mar. 1862, Pocotaligo, S.C., re health conditions in the area, enjoying a satisfying diet, purchasing "capital pork from the country negroes" at ten cents per pound, and using "ground parched cow pease" in place of coffee. Letter, 20 Mar. 1862, re news of the draft in Charleston, an order from Richmond, Va., that substitutions would no longer be allowed among recruits, and the order's anticipated effect on troop morale; 14 May 1862, re Gens. [Roswell Sabine] Ripley and [States Rights] Gist and the Steamer Planter affair. Letter, 17 July 1863, re battle of Morris Island, including a diagram showing positions of Preston's Battery and location of the Pawnee, a Federal gunboat on the Stono River; and 31 May 1864, Secessionville [S.C.], re the improbability of a speedy end to the war in the face of the Union's extensive resources and manpower, and expressing doubts about the efforts of Confederate officials to obtain the support of European powers, because of the slavery issue.

ArchivalResource: 89 items.

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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908. Ellison Capers papers, 1862-1901.

Title: Ellison Capers papers, 1862-1901.

Chiefly military news and personal correspondence with Civil War veterans collecting information on Capers' regiment, 24th S.C. Volunteers; regiment rolls and correspondence with L.W. Crawford, re Crawford's work on Fort Sumter, S.C.; letter, 8 Feb. 1861, Fort Morris, Morris Island, S.C., to Col. J[ames] J[ohnston] Pettigrew, re ammunition and supplies, continuation of bombardment, and preparations to attack Fort Sumter. Letter, 26 June 1862, Camp Capers, Saint Paul's Parish, S.C., from R[ichard] Y[eadon] Dwight, Hol[comb] Legion S.C. volunteers, re his field leadership; Battle of Secessionville, S.C.; inaccurate reports from James Island, S.C.; defense of Charleston, S.C.; attitude toward the Civil War; and news of family and friends. Letter, 17 May 1863, Madison County, Miss., to his wife, re wounds sustained at Jackson, Miss; letter, 15 Aug. 1879, Reevesville, S.C., from R.S. Weeks, re historical sketch of 24th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers, including list of members of Company C; letter, 29 Jan. 1880, re death of Gen. States Rights Gist at Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 30 Nov. 1864; letter, 17 June 1889, Columbia, S.C., to Gen. Marcus J[oseph] Wright, Washington, D.C., re activities of 24th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers, at Battle of Chickamauga, Ga. Address to Confederate veterans, 20 May 1884, re incident in May 1865 in which Greenville, S.C., Confederate veterans and home guard volunteers fired upon Union cavalry forces; letter, 12 Sept. 1895, Columbia, S.C., from Ben LaBree, Louisville, Ky., requesting E. Capers submit article to LaBree's book "Camp Fires of the Confederacy;" pamphlet, 1870-1871, Greenville, S.C., "Report of Christ Church Parish"; and diploma, July 1888, University of South Carolina, conferring honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity; 2 pamphlets, 1912, advertising "The Soldier-Bishop, Ellison Capers," by Rev. Walter B. Capers.

ArchivalResource: 82 items.

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Adger family. Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Title: Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for South Carolina; broadside, 1858, of Zion Presbyterian Church; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer voted for Gen. Wade Hampton"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion," a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also including letter, 29 Jan. 1862, re complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment. Photographs in Photograph Collection include Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer, George S. Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) re travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, the plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862 and 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, re Federal troops in Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Guest Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summerhome on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874." Also including typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard-Ancestors."

ArchivalResource: 232 items + 10 v.

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Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908. Ellison Capers papers, 1833-1908.

Title: Ellison Capers papers, 1833-1908.

Papers pertaining to military activities from 1861-1865 consisting of official reports, general orders, special orders, diairies, muster rolls, and personal letters.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (5 boxes)

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Peacock, John R.,. John R. Peacock papers, 1838-1954 [manuscript].

Title: John R. Peacock papers, 1838-1954 [manuscript].

Miscellaneous letters, soldiers' reminiscences, photographs, autographs, and other papers relating to the Confederacy, to Confederate officials before or after the Civil War, and to other aspects of American history, collected by John R. Peacock. Persons mentioned include Jubal A. Early, States Rights Gist, and G. T. Beauregard. Events mentioned include the Cherokee Removal of 1838 and Price's Missouri Expedition, 1864.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

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Confederate States of America. Army. Confederate States of America Army records, 1861-1865.

Title: Confederate States of America Army records, 1861-1865.

The collection consists of records relating to the Confederate States of America Army from 1861-1865. The papers include the records of W. Frank Ayer, Chief Quartermaster of the Confederate Amy at Dalton, Georgia. The records contain pay vouchers, requisition requests, correspondence, and some reports. Of particular interest are records (including muster rolls) relating to various hospitals in Dalton which cared for wounded soldiers. The collection also contains requisition records of the Ordnance Bureau at Columbus, Kentucky and an order book of the Confederate Army Department of South Carolina and Georgia. The orders were mainly issued by Major General John Clifford Pemberton, Brigadier General States Rights Gist and William Duncan Smith.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 9 OP, and 3 BV)

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Dunovant, Richard G. M., b. 1821. Papers, 1861.

Title: Papers, 1861.

Official papers, Jan. 2-Apr. 30, 1861, pertaining mostly to the fortification, provisioning, and garrisoning of the forts and batteries around Charleston harbor. Includes copies of general and special orders from the Adjutant and Inspector General's offices, construction reports, requisitions, and lists of officers and men. Correspondents include George T. Andrews, Ellison Capers, States Rights Gist, Maxcy Gregg, Walter Gwynn, David Flavel Jamison, David R. Jones, Stephen Dill Lee, Junior Mitchel, James Johnson Pettigrew, J.J. Pope, Jr., Roswell S. Ripley, and Francis Wilkinson.

ArchivalResource: 145 items.

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Photographic Portrait File

Title: Photographic Portrait File

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Honour, Theodore Augustus, 1831-1913. Theodore Augustus Honour papers, 1859-1865.

Title: Theodore Augustus Honour papers, 1859-1865.

Civil War letters chiefly addressed to Honour's wife, Rebecca Caroline Seignious Honour, describing military life in South Carolina and Virginia, including 27 Feb. 1862-April 1864, discussing activities at Morris Island, James Island, Fort Sumter, and other camps near Charleston, S.C., his consideration of hiring a substitute, and other matters; and summer 1864, Petersburg, Va., describing siege, reporting pests, disease and meager rations. Letters from Honour's father, J[ohn] H[enry] H[onour], 10, 14 Mar. and 28 July 1862, Charleston, discuss minor naval engagement, arrival of a blockade running ship with army supplies, Southern military unpreparedness and conscription, Northern attitudes to the war, and hope of European intervention. Theodore A. Honour's letters to wife, 27 Feb. 1862-28 Feb. 1863, describe techonological innovations and camp life, including use of torpedo boats and iron gun boats; battlefields and corpses; poor opinion of S[tates] R[ights] Gist as a General; engagement against African American troops; presence of spies; executions; and account of defection of Robert Smalls to the Federal fleet upon the steamer Planter, 14 May 1862. Letters, 3 Mar.-28 Apr. 1864, from Columbia, S.C., describe business matters and relocation of Bank of Charleston, seizure of railroads, return of low country families from refuge in up country; and account of meeting the captured female doctor, Mary Edwards Walker. Also includes undated memoirs, with description of Washington Light Infantry veterans' tour of the Northeast.

ArchivalResource: 390 items.

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Johnson, John, 1829-1907. John Johnson papers, 1862-1906.

Title: John Johnson papers, 1862-1906.

Correspondence, scrapbook, journal, and other papers pertaining to the defense of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Includes letters (1862-1864) from Johnson at Charleston, Fort Sumter, and other Confederate batteries to family members concerning fortifications at Fort Sumter and elsewhere, conditions inside Fort Sumter during bombardments, religion, family concerns, and other war matters. Includes letters (1866-1899) from Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard concerning Johnson's book The Defense of Charleston Harbor (1890). Scrapbook contains official memoranda, oaths, orders, correspondence, copies and extracts of correspondence, requests for supplies, promotion notifications, wage scale for engineers, directives from the C.S.A. Engineer Department of S.C., duties of engineers, lists of engineers, the fortification of Fort Sumter and Charleston harbor, slave labor in the Engineering Corps, designs and defenses for Fort Sumter. Correspondents include D.B. Harris, C.H. Stevens, S.R. Gist, William H. Echols, Alfred Rhett, and others. Journal (1863) records the bombardment of Fort Sumter and work on the defenses at the fort and nearby batteries. Original manuscript of Johnson's book, The Defense of Charleston Harbor, including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands (1890), an annotated map of "The Attack on Charleston by the Yankee Iron Clad Fleet, April 7, 1863." Also includes the order book (1863) and letterbook (1864) of Stephen Elliott, Jr., commanding officer of Fort Sumter containing many letters to S.C. Boylston.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32141378 View

Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915. Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Title: Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming Adger, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina Hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for the state of South Carolina; broadside, 1858, "Zion's [Zion Presbyterian Church] Welcome"; letter, 29 Jan. 1862, in reference to complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding General [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer, a member of "The Honest Man's Party," voted for "Gen. Wade Hampton, and the Redemption of South Carolina"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion, " a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also includes photographs of Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer George Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) detailing her early travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, tha plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862, 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, recording activities of Federal troops in the Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Geust Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summer home on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874"; typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard ancestors."

ArchivalResource: 237 items + 8 v.

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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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Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894. Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1766-1931 (bulk, 1766-1888).

Title: Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1766-1931 (bulk, 1766-1888).

Chiefly correspondence, papers, and records, 1766-1888 and 1915-1931 and 1960, re trade with Catawba Indians during 18th century and Civil War items re battle reports, military orders, and letters of States Rights Gist, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Milledge Luke Bonham, James D. Nance, and Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, letters, 28 July 1861 - 11 Oct. 1861, to J.B.K., re orders, battle reports, and troop movements; letter, 17 Dec. 1863, Bean's Station, Tenn., to Mrs. E[lebert] R. Bland, Edgefield, S.C., condolence on the death of her husband; letter, 25 July 1865, oath of allegiance to U.S. Government. Items of colonial and early national periods include letters, 1766-1784, of Joseph Kershaw (ca.1727-1791) re travels among Catawba Indians; Indian policies of the S.C. government; sums of money given to Catawba Indians; letter 1 Mar. 1766, William Bull to "Mr. Kerhaw, Merchant at Pinetree Hill" re Catawba Indians then visiting in Charleston and ordering Kershaw to supply them with gunpowder, lead, and rum and charge expenses to "the Public"; letter, 13 May 1784, account of goods distributed to Catawba Indians; letter, 8 Sept. 1801, from Jo[seph] Brevard, to James Kershaw, re transportation of produce; letter 12 Jan. 1846, Montgomery, [Alabama], from Keith S[tuart] Moffatt, to JBK, re condition of troops, desertions, and plans to continue to Mexico with Palmetto Regiment. Letter, 2 Dec. 1847, Camden, S.C. to Dr. Tho[ma]s R, Gary, S.C. House (Columbia, S.C.), re debt owed Gary, " ... I have no objection to your instructing Mr. Chesnut to sue, which would certainly bring the money ... but you know it is necessary for a man who is forced to live on credit to keep up his credit at home & this is the only reason you have never been paid"; letter, 11 Dec. 1849, Camden, S.C., to T. & J.W. Johnson re ordering volumes for his law library from a member of the bar. Five items, 1846, 1851, and 1872, document a real estate transaction with William E. Johnson, an estate return for M. Kershaw, and correspondence of J.P. Carroll, an attorney in Columbia, South Carolina, who writes to Kershaw for help in collecting fees incurred with two lawsuits referred to him by Kershaw, ultimately concluding in his letter of 19 July 1872 that "Perhaps ... I have overestimated my services." Letter, 8 Oct. 1879, Theological Seminary, Columbia, S.C., W[illia]m S[wan] Plumer, to S.E. Welch, Charleston, S.C., recommending S.W. Newall; letter, 19 July 1880, Camden, S.C., to Rev. John O. Wilson, Greenville, S.C., discussing different interpretations of the A[nti] D[uelling] Society pledge, how Wilson's opinion would operate in relation with the Cash-Shannon duel, and naming several people who would be affected; 3 letters, 7 Jan. 1882 and undated, re legal matters addressed to John McPherson DeSaussure, Thomas Boone Fraser, and R.E. Wall; letter, 17 June 1882, Camden, S.C. to Waring Mikell, Charleston, S.C., re actions prior to capture of two Confederate disivions of at [Saylers] Creek (Prince Edward County, Virginia). Letter, 13 Apr. 1887, Aiken, S.C., to Col. C.C. Jones, declining invitation to attend meeting of The Survivors, as he would be attending unveiling of statue of John C. Calhoun in Charleston; 26 Jan. 1888, Camden, S.C., to Gen. E[vander] M[cIvor] Law, enclosing money for copies of Century War book, "the book is valuable & fair ..." although he added that "all history is a lie ... satisfied of its truth ... Alll ... have but one object ... to glorify themselves"; letter, 12 May 1888, Camden, S.C., J.B.K., re the circumstances of Gen. [Maxcy] Gregg's death in 1862; letter, 17 July 1888, Savannah, Ga., L[afayette] Mclaws, to JBK, re his articles on battles of Civil War, and limited vision of certain writers. Undated speech [c. 1895], delivered to Camp Hampton, United Confederate Veterans [possibly by John Doby Kennedy], re J.B.K.'s military history; letter, 1 Sept. 1931, genealogical information on Kershaw Family; newspaper articles, 3 Oct. 1960, re proposed Project Southland Confederate memorial to Kershaw's Brigade at Gettysburg National Memorial Park, Pa. (a monument later completed in cooperation with the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association) showing positions occupied by Kershaw's Brigade and its movement during the battle, and envelope with image of artist's conception of the battle; and undated biographical sketch of JBK.

ArchivalResource: 164 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75961074 View