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Edward M. Tidball Civil War Papers 1859-1865.

Title: Edward M. Tidball Civil War Papers 1859-1865.

Photocopies of the papers of Edward M. Tidball include letters sent to him from the U.S. Navy Dept., Bureau of Ordnance & Hydrography, Washington, D.C. granting Leaves of Absence as a clerk in Aug. 1895 & July 1860, a letter accepting his resignation Mar. 6, 1861, letters from the Confederate Navy Dept., S.R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, appointing him as Chief Clerk Mar. 13, 1861 & Apr. 30, 1862; receipt from Tidball for sale of his property Mar. 15, 1865, the U.S. Presidential Proclamation of Amnesty & Pardon, May 29, 1865, a letter Aug. 29, 1865 from U.S. President Andrew Johnson granting Tidball full pardon for having taken part in the rebellion against the U.S., & a photo of Edward M. Tidball.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40332872 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Autograph File, M

Title: Autograph File, M

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear feet (21 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01436/catalog View

McCrady, Edward, 1833-1903. Military papers, 1860-1870.

Title: Military papers, 1860-1870.

Papers consist chiefly of military correspondence and orders, and records such as invoices, reports, and receipts. Miscellaneous items include a draft of a memorial (ca. 1865) from plantation owners of Madison, Fla., to a U.S. General in authority in the area concerning freedmen.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70973526 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Stephen R. Mallory correspondence, 1861.

Title: Stephen R. Mallory correspondence, 1861.

Letter (7 May 1861) addressed to Mallory regarding a naval appointment.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70983926 View

Durkin, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas), 1903-2003. Papers, [1954?].

Title: Papers, [1954?].

Typescript (ch. 5 incomplete; ch. 6-7 missing) and page proofs, relating to Durkin's Stephen R. Mallory: Confederate Navy Chief (1954).

ArchivalResource: ca. 1400 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70951481 View

Telegrams sent to governors of South Carolina, 1861-1864.

Title: Telegrams sent to governors of South Carolina, 1861-1864.

Telegrams sent to South Carolina while a part of the Confederate States ofAmerica. Includes governors Francis Wilkinson Pickens and Milledge Luke Bonham.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02221/catalog View

General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Letters Sent by the Confederate Secretary of the Navy

Title: General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Letters Sent by the Confederate Secretary of the Navy

ArchivalResource:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/875753 View

The Year of Secession, 1861, Civil War letter collection MSS. 0305., 1861

Title: The Year of Secession, 1861 Civil War letter collection 1861

Photocopies of sixteen letters written during the first year of the Civil War, and includes letters from William J. Hardee, Joseph E. Johnston, and Robert A. Toombs among others

ArchivalResource: 0.05 Linear feet; (16 items; photocopies)

http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000305 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. ALS, 1872 July 7, Beaden Springs, to Stephen R. Mallory, Jr.

Title: ALS, 1872 July 7, Beaden Springs, to Stephen R. Mallory, Jr.

Mallory writes about his ill health and introduces his son to two brokers who might aid his legal career.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86138940 View

Mitchell, John Kirkwood, 1811-1889. Papers, 1862-1865.

Title: Papers, 1862-1865.

This collection contains the official correspondence and papers, 1862-1865, of John Kirkwood Mitchell (1811-1889) as commander of the Lower Mississippi River Squadron, chief of the Bureau of Orders and Detail, and commander of the James River Squadron, Confederate States Navy. Mitchell's correspondence, 1862-1865, concerns coastal defenses; the Battle of New Orleans; Confederate prisoners of war; requests for duty, promotions, and leave; and the vessels and operations of the James River Squadron. Correspondents include David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), Stephen Russell Mallory (1813-1873), Gideon Welles (1802-1878), Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870), George Edward Pickett (1825-1875), and James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880). Also in the collection are letterbooks, orders, and record books, 1864-1865, concerning daily operations of the James River Squadron; muster rolls, ship diagrams, and supply lists for the Lower Mississippi River Squadron; materials, 1862-1863, concerning the court of inquiry into the actions of John Kirkwood Mitchell at the Battle of New Orleans; and muster rolls, 1864-1865, for the following Confederate ships of the James River Squadron: "Beaufort," "Drewry, " "Fredericksburg, " "Hampton, " "Nansemond, " "Richmond, " "Roanoke, " "Torpedo, " and "Virginia II."

ArchivalResource: 500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36040003 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Papers, 1861-1868.

Title: Papers, 1861-1868.

A photocopy of Stephen R. Mallory's will; a letter by Mallory, 1861, commenting on the death of a Dr. L'Engle; and a commission signed by Mallory as secretary of the navy of the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41177244 View

Bacot, Ada W. (Ada White). Ada W. Bacot papers, 1860-1863.

Title: Ada W. Bacot papers, 1860-1863.

Chiefly consisting of family correspondence from her brother, Richard H. Bacot, and diaries of her life and experiences as nurse during Civil War; including 3 letters from a Confederate Naval vessel, 24 Nov. 1863, 17 Dec. 1863, and 24 Feb. 1864, C.S. Charleston, Charleston Harbor, S.C., Richard H. Bacot to Ada Bacot, re her marriage to James E. Henry Clarke, boxes of food sent from home, military promotions, enemy bombardments, and Confederate States Navy submarine Hunley. Letter, 18 Mar. 1864, Dalton, Ga., Constantine Percival to Ada Bacot, re medical care she provided him, military desertions, and Percival's battle experiences; letters, 1865-1866, Charleston, S.C., Richard H. Bacot to Ada Bacot, re business ventures, operation of a river boat, and death of Helen Morgan. Also including eight volume diary, 1860-1863, Florence County, S.C., and Virginia, re life at Mars Bluff, S.C., service as a Civil War nurse, plantation and community life, relationship with slaves, problems of a female plantation owner, politics, her dedication to nursing, community projects, and Richard H. Bacot's Confederate States Naval career. Diary includes entry, 10 Nov. 1861, re traveling to Monticello Hospital, Charlottesville, Va., with the Rev. Robert W. Barnwell; entries, 29 Jan.-25 June 1862, re daily listing of patients treated including names and treatment administered.

ArchivalResource: 9 items and 8 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42748719 View

Florida. Governor (1861-1865 : Milton). Records, 1862-1864.

Title: Records, 1862-1864.

Correspondence and papers.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (30 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50434890 View

Rochelle, James Henry, 1826-1889. Paper, 1811-1907; (bulk 1811-1898).

Title: Paper, 1811-1907; (bulk 1811-1898).

Correspondence and other papers of Rochelle and of his father, James Rochelle, court clerk of Courtland, Va. The papers of the elder Rochelle concern U.S. politics during the early 19th century, Rochelle's agricultural activities, and life in Virginia at the time. J.H. Rochelle's papers relate to his early naval training, his duties on various vessels and in the Confederate Navy, his service in and around Charleston harbor, and family affairs. Includes papers relating to Rochelle's work on the Hydrographical Commission of the Amazon, organized ca. 1871 to explore and survey that part of the Amazon River lying in Peru. Correspondents include Richard Blow, Albert Gallatin, Thomas Gholson, Edwin Gray, William Hines, Benjamin W. Johnston, James Johnston, Samuel Kello, Stephen R. Mallory, J.Y. Mason, Richard E. Parker, Robert Taylor, and John Tyler.

ArchivalResource: 965 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20121717 View

Smith, James Power, 1837-1923. James Power Smith papers, 1861-1864.

Title: James Power Smith papers, 1861-1864.

Official Confederate army correspondence, orders, and reports. Includes a report by Capt. William Robertson Garrett on the attack of the 1st Virginia Atillery Regiment, Company F (also known as the Lee Artillery or Williamsburg Light Artillery) on Fort Magruder, Va., May 5, 1862; Gen. John Bell Hood's report on the engagement at Eltham's landing, Va., May 7, 1862; and other reports on the battle of Williamsburg by Lt. Col. J. Thompson Brown, Lt. William Izard Clopton, Capt. James Dearing, Capt. George E. Pickett, Capt. Robert M. Stribling, and Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox. Also includes reports by Gen. Braxton Bragg on the battle of Chickamauga; letter (1863 February 25) from Gen. Bragg to Gen, Joseph E. Johnston explaining his plan for attack on Franklin, Tenn.; and letter (1863 January 5) from Samuel Preston Moore, Confederate surgeon-general, to James A. Seddon, secretary of defense, relating to pay for soldiers detained in the Confederate Army Medical Dept. Other persons represented include Stephen R. Mallory (Confederate secretary of the navy), Gen. George Henry Thomas, and Gen. C. C. Washburn.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981075 View

Edward M. Tidball Civil War Papers, 1859-1865

Title: Edward M. Tidball Civil War Papers, 1859-1865

ArchivalResource: 9 Items

http://digitool.fcla.edu/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=71030&custom_att_2=direct View

George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers, 1833-1973, (bulk 1833-1900)

Title: George Nicholas Sanders Family Papers 1833-1973 (bulk 1833-1900)

Financier, lobbyist, and Confederate agent in Europe. Mainly journals of Anna J. Sanders, wife of George Nicholas Sanders, and correspondence to and from George Nicholas Sanders and other members of the Sanders family relating to mid-nineteenth century politics, social life, and the Civil War. Subjects include the activities of George Nicholas Sanders and the wartime imprisonment and death of their son, Reid Sanders, as a Confederate soldier.

ArchivalResource: 200 items; 2 containers; 1 linear foot; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012053 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Stephen R. Mallory papers, 1835-1873 [microfilm manuscript].

Title: Stephen R. Mallory papers, 1835-1873 [microfilm manuscript].

Letters, chiefly 1835-1872, mainly from Stephen R. Mallory to his wife and children while he was a member of the U.S. Senate, in Richmond as secretary of the Confederate Navy, as a prisoner of the federal government, 1865, and in Pensacola, Fla., during Reconstruction. Topics include social and political events in Washington, D.C., 1858; wartime conditions in Richmond, Va.; conditions during Mallory's imprisonment, 1865; and his efforts to obtain a presidential pardon and re-establish himself in Pensacola, and the condition of the family home there; and letters, 1868-1871, to his son, Atilla, at college, giving him advice on social and study habits.

ArchivalResource: 95 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24864421 View

Forrest, French, 1796-1866. Commission : Captain, Confederate Navy, issued by secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory, 1861 June 11.

Title: Commission : Captain, Confederate Navy, issued by secretary of the Navy S. R. Mallory, 1861 June 11.

This Accession consists of the appointment, commission, and acceptance of French Forrest as a captain in the Cofederate Navy.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145410715 View

Stephen R. Mallory Diary and Reminiscences, 1861-1872

Title: Stephen R. Mallory Diary and Reminiscences, 1861-1872

Stephen R. Mallory of Florida was a United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy. The collection, in part microfilm, includes diaries, 1861-1862 and 1865-1867, of Stephen R. Mallory. The second volume was written while Mallory was in a federal prison at Fort Lafayette in New York harbor and includes his recollections of the collapes of the Confederate government during April 1865 and his autobiography. There are also copies of letters relating to Mallory's application for parole and some general business and financial information; and advice to his son, Stephen R. Mallory Junior, on government, religion, etc., and commenting on Jefferson Davis.

ArchivalResource: 4; 0.5

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Mallory,Stephen_R.(Diary).html 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

Confederate States of America. Quartermaster's Dept. Records : of the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment, 1862- 1864.

Title: Records : of the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment, 1862- 1864.

The collection contains requisitions, invoices, and other quartermaster accounts, mostly of the 5th Alabama Infantry Regiment during the time the unit served in Virginia near Richmond, kept by Capt. John White, assistant quartermaster. Included is a letter (3 December 1863) from Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Navy, to Brig. Gen. A.R. Lawton concerning the Atlanta Rolling Mill.

ArchivalResource: 266 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29551542 View

Willink, Henry Frederick, 1825-1906. Henry Frederick Willink papers, 1861-1879.

Title: Henry Frederick Willink papers, 1861-1879.

The collection consists of correspondence, receipts, and ship plans relating to the building of the armored vessels Savannah, Milledgeville, and Macon. Correspondence is with Confederate Navy Commanders Stephen R. Mallory and Thomas W. Brent (some of which mentions the armored vessel Fingal, soon to be the Atlanta). Receipts are for payment of slave laborers on shipbuilding projects. Plans for the vessels include the signatures of John L. Porter, CSA Naval Constructor, and William A. Graves, CSA naval engineer.

ArchivalResource: .125 linear ft. (1 box and 2 oversized papers (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173862964 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Autograph letter signed, 1862 Dec. 12.

Title: Autograph letter signed, 1862 Dec. 12.

Autograph letter signed by Stephen R. Mallory, from Richmond, Va., written to Lt. William L. Maury, ordering him to report to Confederate Naval Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury (then a special agent in England seeking to buy warships for the Confederacy) and to take command of a warship and conduct raids on Federal merchant shipping in the Atlantic.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976218 View

Barron family. Papers of the Barron family, 1822-1920 (bulk 1822-1889).

Title: Papers of the Barron family, 1822-1920 (bulk 1822-1889).

The collection consists mainly of letters to Captain Samuel Barron before the Civil War and during Reconstruction from fellow officers and family members. Topics include the death of his wife and child in the Norfolk yellow fever epidemic, 1855, Naval patronage and commands, the Italian Civil War, 1860, the Confederate defense of Norfolk and the Virginia and Carolina coast, and his efforts to become a peanut farmer after the war. Raphael Semmes, Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi are mentioned. Correspondents include William Wilson Corcoran, Lewis Dabney Crenshaw, Samuel Francis DuPont, Catesby Ap Roger Jones, G.W. Magruder, Stephen Russell Mallory, James Palaite, William H. Peters, Tazewell Taylor, William Conway Whittle, and C.P.P. Rodgers.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793669 View

Milton, John, 1807-1865. John Milton letter book and correspondence, 1861-1863.

Title: John Milton letter book and correspondence, 1861-1863.

Collection consists of John Milton's letter book (720 p.), and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 cubic ft. (5 document boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/499152526 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Stephen R. Mallory diary and reminiscences, 1861-1867.

Title: Stephen R. Mallory diary and reminiscences, 1861-1867.

The collection, in part microfilm, includes diaries, 1861-1862 and 1865-1867, of Stephen R. Mallory. The second volume was written while Mallory was in a federal prison at Fort Lafayette in New York harbor and includes his recollections of the collapes of the Confederate government during April 1865 and his autobiography. There are also copies of letters relating to Mallory's application for parole and some general business and financial information; and advice to his son, Stephen R. Mallory Junior, on government, religion, etc., and commenting on Jefferson Davis.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (0.5 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25031570 View

Allen, Mary Rivers. Collection of letters and autographs, 1846-1881

Title: Collection of letters and autographs, 1846-1881

Letters and autographs relating to the Civil War period. Many letters addressed to Henry Bowen Anthony and Henry Wilson; some with accompanying photographs.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 75 items.

http://josiah.brown.edu/record=b2498565~S5 View

Stephen R. Mallory Papers, ., 1835-1873

Title: Stephen R. Mallory Papers, . 1835-1873

MICROFILM ONLY. United States senator and Confederate secretary of the Navy, from Florida. Letters, chiefly 1835-1872, mainly from Stephen R. Mallory to his wife and children while he was a member of the United States Senate, in Richmond as secretary of the Confederate Navy, as a prisoner of the federal government, 1865, and in Pensacola, Fla., during Reconstruction. Topics include social and political events in Washington, D.C., 1858; wartime conditions in Richmond, Va.; conditions during Mallory's imprisonment, 1865; and his efforts to obtain a presidential pardon and re-establish himself in Pensacola, and the condition of the family home there; and letters, 1868-1871, to his son, Atilla, at college, giving him advice on social and study habits.

ArchivalResource:

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Mallory,Stephen_R.html View

Barron, Samuel, 1765-1810. Papers, 1793-1942.

Title: Papers, 1793-1942.

Papers and correspondence of three generations of Samuel Barrons, all of whom were involved in naval affairs. Papers, 1793-1809, of Samuel Barron (1765-1810), commander of one of the Mediterranean squadrons sent to defeat Tripoli. Papers concern naval business and the War with Tripoli. Includes correspondence with his brother James Barron, Stephen Decatur, William Eaton (concerning his controversy with Tobias Lear over the Tripolitan peace settlement), Tobias Lear, Edward Preble, John Rodgers, Robert Smith (Secretary of the Navy), and Thomas Truxton. Includes letters written by Preble and Rodgers on board the USS Constitution and letters concerning the capture of William Bainbridge and the seamen of the USS Philadelphia. Collections includes manuscript volume, 1834-1847, of sea service of Samuel Barron (1808-1888) aboard ships in Carribbean and Mediterranean seas and includes a copy made by Samuel Barron (1836-1892) of an account by James Barron of his duel with Decatur. The volume also has genealogical material concerning the Barron family. Papers of Samuel Barron (1808-1888) concern his service off South America and as an officer of Confederate States Navy in command of the European theater. Correspondents include Zebulon Baird Vance, Stephen R. Mallory and Raphael Semmes (giving an account of the engagement between the USS Kearsage and the CSS Alabama). There is a memoir by James Barron Hope in vindication of the censure of Samuel Barron for the loss of Fort Hatteras, N.C., and there are some papers relating to the service of Samuel Barron (1836-1892) as acting master and lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 538 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21181845 View

Confederate States of America collection, 1861-1865

Title: Confederate States of America collection 1861-1865

Correspondence and official documents originating from various CSA government departments and from individual Confederate states, 1861-65. Includes correspondence of Jefferson Davis, Confederate cabinet members and congressmen, and other officials, as well as official reports of Civil War battles and events, estimates of expenditures and appropriations, petitions, special orders, forms, passes, receipts, bonds, tax records, and other documents. While the bulk of the material is administrative in nature, many of the documents, such as tax records and discharge papers, concern particular individuals, and there are a few letters from private citizens, such as one to President Davis from two women who offer to go behind enemy lines. The collection also includes designs for an alternate Confederate flag.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 3; Linear Feet: 2.30

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.csa View

Roger Jones Family Papers, 1649-1896, (bulk 1724-1810)

Title: Roger Jones Family Papers 1649-1896 (bulk 1724-1810)

Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, financial and legal papers, miscellany, and printed matter, chiefly the papers of the descendants of Captain Roger Jones (1625[?]-1701), who accompanied Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper (1635-1689), to Virginia in 1680, chronicling the lives of several generations of Jones family members in Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.

ArchivalResource: 7,000 items; 40 containers; 8.8 linear feet; 15 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010131 View

Barron, Samuel, 1809-1888. Papers of Samuel Barron, 1820-1899.

Title: Papers of Samuel Barron, 1820-1899.

Barron corresponds with family, friends, and naval officers about cruises, naval affairs, and politics, as well as family news, and life in Norfolk, and Essex County, Virginia. Of interest are letters written during the Norfolk yellow fever epidemic of 1855. A large group of Civil War correspondence deals with the safety of U.S. vessels at Pensacola in 1861, the establishment of the Confederate Navy, the defense of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, his capture at Hatteras and eleven months imprisonment in Boston. After his exchange Barron corresponds about the reorganization of the Confederate Navy, the defense of the Mississippi, Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers with iron-clad gunboats, and his mission abroad to order iron-clads and outfit other vessels for the Confederacy. Postwar letters deal almost entirely with family news. The collection also includes some genealogy, photographs, clippings, a sectional sketch of a gunboat and some school-girl essays. Among the correspondents are Samuel Francis DuPont, David Glasgow Farragut, Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Catesby Ap Roger Jones, Stephen Russell Mallory, George Edward Pickett, John Slidell, Francis Henry Smith, John Tyler, Gideon Welles, William Conway Whittle, and Henry Alexander Wise.

ArchivalResource: 697 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30793039 View

Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873. Letters, 1863-1865, 1948-1961.

Title: Letters, 1863-1865, 1948-1961.

Correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (25 original items plus photostats 11 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50750444 View

Yeadon, Richard, 1802-1870. Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

Title: Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

Chiefly letters from clients re legal matters, newspaper clippings, and land papers; including letter, 9 Dec. 1841, Charleston, S.C., to William Gilmore Simms, re Simms' letter of condolence, declining health of his mother, efforts to acquire stock in Charleston Library Society, and failure of the legislature to provide funds for Simms' state history. Oversize scrapbook, ca. 1857-1870 (bulk dates, 1857-1858 with a dozen pages of clippings ca. Jan.-Mar. 1870), consisting of newspaper clippings, editorials and news reports published in various newspapers around S.C. and elsewhere [Annex]; topics discussed include politics and elections, including justifications for secession (a thread beginning in early 1857); news of "Bleeding Kansas" and efforts to make the territory a free state; speeches and appearances of politicians, such as Edwared Everett, Edmund Ruffin, and others; candidates for state and national offices, Oct. 1858, listed by various "tickets"; social and charitable organizations, including various news items about fund-raising by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association; clippings, ca. Mar. 1858, re the Charleston Marine School Ship; memorials and obituaries to political and public figures who died during 1857-1858 (Jonathon Bryan, Thomas Hart Benton, and others) or earlier, such as Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843), who was reinterred in Charleston in 1859. Small number of clippings from late 1869 and early 1870 reflect economic and social conditions in Charleston during Reconstruction years, with entries re unpaid debts and taxes, efforts to rebuild the Circular Congregational Church, and a series of nostalgic historical essays on city development, "The Streets of Charleston." Editorial correspondence, 18 Apr. 1857, re Yeadon's stay at Cedar Grove Plantation, Dorchester, S.C.; letter, 18 Aug. 1862, Richmond, Va., from Steven R. Mallory [Confederate Secretary of the Navy], reporting naming of new steam sloop "The Palmetto State" and funds collected to build ships; letter, 13 Sept. 1865, Columbia, S.C., from provisional governor Benjamin F. Perry, re Yeadon's application for pardon.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (at Annex)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43541315 View

Milton, John, 1807-1865. Letterbook and correspondence, 1861-1863.

Title: Letterbook and correspondence, 1861-1863.

Governor Milton's letterbook (527 letters) (1861-1863) concerning military affairs and the defense of Florida during the Civil War and 240 letters received (1861-1863) from Confederate military and political personnel particularly Judah P. Benjamin, Jefferson Davis, David Levy Yulee, and Stephen R. Mallory: together with orders and proclamations pertaining to military affairs.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958757 View

David Glasgow Farragut Papers, 1816-1869

Title: David Glasgow Farragut Papers 1816-1869

Naval officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, biographical file, invitations, and other material relating primarily to Farragut's naval activities, especially his role in the protection of American interests in Mexico during the pre-Civil War period.

ArchivalResource: 400 items; 1 container; 0.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010187 View