Trenholm, George Alfred, 1806-1876. George Alfred Trenholm papers, 1864-1923.
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George Alfred Trenholm papers, 1864-1923.
Chiefly family papers, Civil War letters, and correspondence with James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow as Chief Agent of the Confederacy for the purchase and sale of cotton; note, 16 May 1864, re retreat of Robert E. Lee; letter, 2 Aug. 1864, George A. Trenholm to W.D. Porter, Charleston, S.C., re import duties; letter, 5 Aug. 1864, James DeBow to George A. Trenholm, re turning over duties to his successor; letter, 18 Aug. 1864, Treasury Department, C.S.A., George A. Trenholm, to Campbell Wallace, Augusta, Ga., re public debt and Confederate finances. Letter, 23 Aug. 1864, George A. Trenholm, to James DeBow, re receipt of funds, public opinion of DeBow's efforts to save government property from destruction, expressing confidence in his work, and requesting a final report; unbound diary, 2 Apr.-9 July 1865, kept by Mrs. G.A. Trenholm, re escape of Pres. Jefferson Davis and cabinet from Richmond, Va., illness of George A. Trenholm, their return to Columbia, S.C., and Trenholm's arrest. Nine letters, 4 June-7 Oct. 1865, written by Trenholm to his family during his imprisonment at Charleston, S.C., and Fort Pulaski, Ga., with mention of concern for departing slaves; document, c.1874, re support of a memorial to Congress asking for relief and relating certain charges against Gov. Franklin J. Moses. Letters, 15 July 1870-19 July 1875, Charleston and Columbia, S.C., from Trenholm to his daughter, Eliza [Mrs. Alexander] Macbeth, re family news discussing life in S.C. during Reconstruction; plat of Hampton Plantation, Mar. 1871, a property in Richland County, S.C.; and volume of transcribed letters, 1865-1875, typed copy of papers made from originals in South Caroliniana Library. Two letters, 5 Feb. and 18 Sept. 1878, written by Trenholm's son, W.L. Trenholm in Charleston, S.C., to J.D. Bruns and P.G.T. Beauregard in New Orleans discuss unsuccessful efforts to locate evidence of an 1861 proposal by the Confederate Cabinet by which G.A. Trenholm's company would provide shipping services between South Carolina and islands in the Caribbean during the early days of the Civil War. Letters refer to discussions in May 1861 involving Beauregard, Trenholm, and the Confederate Cabinet regarding the firm of Trenholm, Fraser, and Company's providing "certain steamers for Naval purposes" and the establishment and maintaining "under a Gov't guaranty, a line of steam communication between Charleston and the West Indies." Trenholm regretfully reports that any documentary evidence in the firm's records was lost when the Central Wharf in Charleston burned.
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