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Cheves family. Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.

Title: Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.

Family and business correspondence of Langdon Cheves (1776-1857), lawyer, planter, financier, and Congressman from Charleston; his wife, Mary Elizabeth Dulles, of Charleston and Philadelphia; their daughter, Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879), a South Carolina author, and her husband, David James McCord, editor and nullification leader. Antebellum material includes medicinal recipes for the treatment of slaves' aliments, 1808 and undated; letter, 6 Jan. 1819, from J[osehp] J. Dulles, Cheves' brother-in-law, Philadelphia, re movement to secure Cheves' appointment to the presidency of the Bank of the United States. Letter, 25 Sept. 1836, New York, Ed. W[illia]m Johnston, to Langdon Cheves, Jr. (1814-1863), Columbia, re his expedition in the Va. mountains and research on Patrick Henry, re Duff Green's contemplated revival of "Southern Review" with Johnston as editor and the support of William Campbell Preston, John C. Calhoun and James Hamilton, and re his objections to Hugh Swinton Legare's political views. Letter, 30 Dec. 1846, Log Hall (near the Ogeechee River in Georgia), Langdon Cheves to T. P. Huger, reviewing his gifts of a plantation, African American slaves, and cash to his daughter when she married Huger, and criticizing Huger's management of the property and treatment of his daughter. Civil War materials include thirty-two letters, 1861-1863, of Langdon Cheves, Jr., relating primarily to his work as an engineer with the Confederate States of America Corps of Engineers on coastal fortifications, particularly on Hilton Head Island and at Battery Wagner on Morris Island; andletters, June and July 1862, referring to his work on the design and construction of gas balloons for military observation. Reconstruction and later-era correspondence includes letter, 28 Mar. 1868, from Russell McCord at Quissaman, Brazil, to his sister, Mary, describing life as a Confederate emigre living with a slaveholding family in Brazil; letter, 6 Feb. 1869, Mont[gomer]y, [Ala.], R. P. McCord to "Dear Charlotte," re the situation of various family members in Ala. and re planting activities; and letter, 25 Jan. 1896, Charleston, Langdon Cheves, to Cha[rle]s N. West, Savannah, commenting on West's "Courts and Judges of Georgia".

ArchivalResource: 74 items.

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McCord, David James, 1797-1855. David James McCord papers, 1844 [manuscript].

Title: David James McCord papers, 1844 [manuscript].

Diary, 15-31 December 1844, of McCord, during the first part of a trip with Gen. James Hamilton, Jr., to Texas to buy land, recording events of his journey, political conversations with several notable southerners, and business dealings in Mobile, Ala., and New Orleans, La.; and "Louisa C. McCord," by Jessie M. Fraser, a pamphlet about David J. McCord's wife.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Cheves, Langdon, 1848-1939. Langdon Cheves papers, 1735-1941.

Title: Langdon Cheves papers, 1735-1941.

Papers of Langdon Cheves are divided into his land papers pertaining to plantations mainly in Georgetown and Beaufort counties, S.C., real estate in Charleston, S.C., and Newport, R.I., and other properties; correspondence, including personal, business, and family letters; historical and genealogical research papers, including a transcription of the Shaftesbury Papers; legal papers, including estate records and correspondence; financial papers, mostly accounts; family papers, including photographs and transcriptions of correspondence of John R. Cheves and Ann Heatly Reid Lovell; and miscellaneous papers, including school and organizational records, sketchbooks, and wills. In addition, there are are family papers (1819-1881) of Charles Thomson Haskell, including correspondence and Civil War military records; papers (1870-1923) of Sophia Lovell Haskell Cheves, wife of Langdon Cheves, which mainly consist of her correspondence with Langdon Cheves and family members; Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord's notes and letters (ca. 1876) concerning her father Langdon Cheves (1776-1857); and transcriptions (1941) of Cheves family correspondence by Langdon Cheves West. Scattered papers of Henry A. Middleton, Sr., grandfather of Langdon Cheves, are also included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 21 linear ft.

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O'Donnell, Katherine Angela. To comfort, to counsel, to cure! Comparative models of Civil War nursing : 2005 Dec. ; [typescript] / Katherine O'Donnell.

Title: To comfort, to counsel, to cure! Comparative models of Civil War nursing : 2005 Dec. ; [typescript] / Katherine O'Donnell.

Essay re the medical care for wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War, including the "wayside hospitals" that began in Columbia, S.C.; topics discussed include Columbia nurses Louisa McCord and Sarah Bryce.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (20 sheets)

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