Wingate family. Wingate family papers, 1835-1887.
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Wingate family papers, 1835-1887.
Chiefly family letters re social and economic conditions, bills, and receipts during antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods; including extract from minutes of the Winnsboro, S.C., town council, 31 Dec. 1835, re a petition requesting the council to refuse licenses to sell alcohol and efforts at temperance enforcement in other towns, including Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; letter, 7 June 1861, Camp Darlington near Antreville [Centreville?], Va., Willie Wingate, to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wingate, re Maxcy Gregg, troop movements, battles, and accounts of riflemens' attacks. Letter, 4 Nov. 1861, Columbia, S.C., Mrs. L.W. Waring, to Mrs. Harriet E. Wingate, re arrival of Union prisoners in Columbia; letter, 21 Dec. 1861, Pavilion Hotel, Charleston, S.C., Willie Wingate, to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wingate, re his efforts to enroll in a unit and damage caused by the Charleston fire. Letters, 9 and 11 June, 10 Aug., and 1 Sept. 1862, Camp Gist, James Island, S.C., Willie Wingate, to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wingate, re preparations for anticipated attack, casualities at Chickahominy, Va., during Peninsula campaign, oppressive heat, illness among troops, and frustration with garrison life; letter, 4 Nov. 1862, Orville, Ala., Mrs. E.V. Campbell, to Harriet Wingate, re shortage of shoes, blackets, and clothing among Confederate soldiers. Letter, 7 Oct. 1863, Meridian, Miss., Willie Wingate, to Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Wingate, re engagement resulting in heavy casualties for both armies; letter, 11 Aug. 1868, Elm Grove, M.A. Blanchard, to Hattie Wingate, re Reconstruction politics in S.C. and family affairs; letter, 20 Oct. 1872, Tennessee, A.M. McCreight, to Hattie Wingate, re social activities at the Memphis exposition, radical carpetbagger Judge Lewis, and racial riots and murders in Arkansas. Letter, 25 Oct. 1873, Atoka, Tenn., A.M. McCreight to Hattie Wingate, re local African-Americans and economic hardship caused by epidemic in Memphis; letter, 24 Sept. 1874, Atoka, Tenn., M.A. Blanchard, to Hattie Wingate, re scandal of [Henry Ward] Beecher and [Elizabeth M. Richards] Tilton affair; letter, 21 Nov. 1875, Atoka, Tenn., M.A. Blanchard, to Hattie Wingate, re Hampton's and Tilden's elections.
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