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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. G.T. Beauregard papers, 1861-1893.

Title: G.T. Beauregard papers, 1861-1893.

The collection contains papers relating to Beauregard's Civil War career, including correspondence, notes to and from various troop commands, reports on the return of troops after 1st Battle of Bull Run, and 5 poems dedicated to the general; together with family and personal papers, consisting mainly of letters (1888-1893) from Beauregard to his granddaughter, Lauré Beauregard Larendon, but also including correspondence of his brother, Toutant Beauregard, his daughter, Julia Beauregard Larendon, his son-in-law, Charles A. Larendon, as well as Elizabeth Washington Foote Cheves, Annie Chambers Ketchum, Joseph Surand, and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. Civil War correspondents include Braxton Bragg, Joseph Emerson Brown, Jefferson Davis, Quincy Adams Gilmore, Charles Colcock Jones, Thomas Jordan, Joseph Brevard Kershaw, William Whann Mackall, Julian Keith Sass, and Mary Eliza Perine Tucker.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

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Barnwell, Robert Woodward, 1801-1882. Robert Woodward Barnwell (1801-1882) papers, 1833-1879.

Title: Robert Woodward Barnwell (1801-1882) papers, 1833-1879.

Chiefly records and reports written to the Board of Trustees at South Carolina College, while serving as President, Chairman of the Faculty, and faculty member; correspondence includes letters from S.C. College President William Campbell Preston, and S.C. Governors George McDuffie, Pierce Mason Butler, John Peter Richardson and James Lawrence Orr, re conditions at the college, academics, students, student conduct. Including letter, 16 Jan. 1833, from Robert Woodward Barnwell, to Gov. Robert Y. Hayne, re politics in Washington, D.C., anger over Presidential proclamation re enforcement of cotton tariff in S.C., speech by [John Caldwell] Calhoun, and South Carolina politics. Also including four letters, 6 June 1837 and 12 June 1837, of Gov. Pierce Mason Butler, re voluntary military corps at S.C. College; letter, 29 Nov. 1837, re erection of new buildings; letter, 9 May 1866, re conditions at S.C. College during the first post-Civil War session. Letter, 11 May 1866, Columbia, S.C., from D[avid] L[ewis] Wardlaw, to Board of Trustees, S.C. College, Columbia, S.C., re election of Robert Woodward Barnwell and Joseph Brevard Kershaw as Board members; and letter, 10 Feb. 1874, New York, N.Y., from J.W. Scheimerhom, re encouraging S.C. College graduates to apply at American School Institute for teaching positions.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

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Carson, James M., 1832-1888. James M. Carson papers, 1870-1899.

Title: James M. Carson papers, 1870-1899.

Chiefly business correspondence, lien agreements, and bills from various mercantile firms in Charleston, records of farm tenants, and possibly sharecroppers, statements of cotton sold by Pelzer, Rodgers & Co. Contains manuscripts, 1873-1888, crop lien and mortgage agreements; 22 Nov. 1879, statement of Carson's financial interests in the Schooner "Herald". Includes letters, 8 Oct. 1875, from Charleston firm of Pelzer, Rodgers & Co., advising Carson of poor market prospects for cotton crop; 1 Nov. 1875, from E.B. Richbourg, Wright's Bluff, re employee requirements for shoes and cloth, problem with shipping cotton to Charleston due to low water, and anticipation of poor cotton crop; 25 Nov. 1875, from J. H. Aycock, Sumter, wanting to rent land near Summerton for "Turpentine purposes." Other letters include 11 Dec. 1875, Camden, J.M. Davis, to Mrs. M.H. Hanks, re proposal of Gen. [J.B.] Kershaw and himself to settle Bank of Camden affairs and "recover something for the bill holders". something for the bill holders"; 16 Feb. 1876, from Geo[rge] E. Gibbon, Wando Mining & Manufacturing Co., mentioning the general depression of business and regretting that farmers in Sumter and Clarendon counties were suffering. Also includes letters, 21 June 1876, Sumter, from Charles Inglesby, Charleston, discussing repairs needed on Carson's house in Summerville and enclosing estimate; 14 Aug. 1878, from T.J. Coughlan, Sumter, explaining Carson's duties as an overseer of roads, highways, and bridges in Providence Township; 11 Nov. 1878, from E.R. Richbourg, Wright's Bluff, re rent money and cotton production of various renters; 19 Mar. 1879, Sumter, from H. Sperry, Augusta Oil Co., re freight cost of shipping cotton seed meal to Carson. Bound volumes, 1874-1884, 1880-1881, 1883-1884, 1886, and 1887, [Sumter County], account books containing accounts with individual tenants and occasional farm diary, 1874-1884.

ArchivalResource: 553 items and 5 volumes.

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McCrady, John, 1831-1881. Letter : to Judge Kershaw, 1878 Feb. 11.

Title: Letter : to Judge Kershaw, 1878 Feb. 11.

Letter to Judge Joseph B. Kershaw in Camden (S.C.) concerns the importance of the University of the South in Sewanee (Tenn.) remaining a distinctly Southern institution, combining both the religious and the secular in education, and the importance of the University in the "development of a genuine Southern Culture, having its basis in all that is pure and true and noble and good, all that is Christian in short in Southern tradition." McCrady also discusses the opposing ideals of government held by the South and the North, the North's "divorce" from Christianity, and the dangers of the imposition of Northern culture and education on Southerners. "Political conquest alone does not annihilate a people. For that result another conquest is necessary, a conquest whose campaign but begins when the political subjugation is complete. It is the conquest of the mind of the conquered by the mind of the conqueror."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Joseph Brevard Kershaw Papers, ., 1762-1938

Title: Joseph Brevard Kershaw Papers, . 1762-1938

Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894) was a general in the Confederate Army. The collection includes papers pertaining to the Kershaw family and the DeSaussure family of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Joseph Brevard Kershaw (1822-1894); and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, Episcopal priest of Charleston, S.C., including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, 1908.

ArchivalResource: 150; 1.0

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Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894. Papers, 1852-1894 (bulk 1861).

Title: Papers, 1852-1894 (bulk 1861).

Lists, a bill, military documents, a map, and letters.

ArchivalResource: 19 items.

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Zemp, John W. John W. Zemp papers, 1958-1977.

Title: John W. Zemp papers, 1958-1977.

Papers consist of correspondence, clippings, and genealogical data. Letters and clippings of 1969 to 1970 pertain to an historical marker at Gettysburg (Penn,) commemorating Kershaw's Brigade. Another topic of the material is the Cornwallis House and some other historic properties in Camden (S.C.). Genealogical notes and charts pertain to the South Carolina families of Blakeney, Boykin, Dubose, Kershaw, and Zemp. Miscellaneous items include a copy of an "Autobiography of Mrs. E. A. Zemp, nee Emily Ann Hamlin" which recounts her life growing up in Charleston (S.C.), her observations of plantation life, slaves, and her experiences during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894. Signature, [n.d.].

Title: Signature, [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Early family. Papers, 1764-1956.

Title: Papers, 1764-1956.

Chiefly correspondence, 1838-1892, of Jubal Anderson Early (1816- 1894) of Lynchburg, Va., and while serving in the Confederate Army. Correspondents include P.G.T. Beauregard, Edward William Bok (concerning the burning of Chambersburg, Pa., in 1864), Jefferson Davis (concerning Robert E. Lee), John Brown Gordon (concerning Jefferson Davis), Wade Hampton (concerning James Longstreet and the Battle of Gettysburg), John Bell Hood (concerning defenses around Petersburg, Va.), Joseph Eddleston Johnston (concerning Robert E. Lee), Robert E. Lee (concerning the Conferate States Army of the Valley), James Longstreet (concerning Joseph Brevard Kershaw), Charles Marshall (concerning Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, and the Battle of Gettysburg), and John Singleton Mosby (concerning Early's raid on Washington, D.C., in 1864). Also include miscellaneous papers of Joab Early (1791-1870) of Franklin County, Va.; correspondence and accounts of Samuel Henry Early (1813-1874) of Lynchburg, including accounts for the education of daughters at Lynchburg Female Seminary and the Patapsco Female Institute, Ellicott City, Md.; diaries, 1861 and 1865, correspondence and scrapbook of Mary Washington (Cabell) Early (1846-1917) of Richmond, Lynchburg, and Buckingham County, Va.; correspondence, accounts, scrapbook and miscellaneous papers of Ruth Hairston Early (1849-1928) of Lynchburg; and miscellaneous papers of Emma (Lyon) Bryan (containing reminiscences of Jefferson and Varina (Howell) Davis), John Cabell (d. 1815), Doctor John Jordon Cabell (1772-1834), Clifford Cabell Early (b. 1883), Evelyn Russell Early (1877-1940), Henrian Cabell Early (1852?-1895), Mary Judith Early (d. 1918), and Samuel Henry Early (1880-1897).

ArchivalResource: 437 items.

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Century Company records

Title: Century Company records

The Century Company published the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, which was widely regarded as the best general periodical of its time, performing a role as cultural arbiter during the 1880s and 1890s. It was founded in New York City in 1881 and also published the children's magazine St. Nicholas, dictionaries, and books. The Century Company records date from 1870 to the 1930s and chiefly contain correspondence with contributors, readers, public figures, and literary agents. A number of manuscripts and proofs in the collection are extensively edited and taken with annotations on letters provide a detailed record of the outlook, standards, and functions of the company.

ArchivalResource: 60.4 linear feet; 151 boxes

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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893. Papers, 1861-1893.

Title: Papers, 1861-1893.

Papers (22 items) relating to Beauregard's Civil War career, including correspondence, notes to and from various troop commands, reports on the return of troops after 1st Battle of Bull Run, and 5 poems dedicated to the general; together with family and personal papers, consisting mainly of letters (1888-1893) from Beauregard to his granddaughter, Lauré Beauregard Larendon, but also including correspondence of his brother, Toutant Beauregard, his daughter, Julia Beauregard Larendon, his son-in-law, Charles A. Larendon, as well as Elizabeth Washington Foote Cheves, Annie Chambers Ketchum, Joseph Surand, and Augusta Jane Evans Wilson. Civil War correspondents include Braxton Bragg, Joseph Emerson Brown, Jefferson Davis, Quincy Adams Gilmore, Charles Colcock Jones, Thomas Jordan, Joseph Brevard Kershaw, William Whann Mackall, Julian Keith Sass, and Mary Eliza Perine Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 83 items.

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Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

Title: Confederate officers photograph album, n.d.

This collection contains one hundred ninety two cartes-de-visite photographs of officers who served in the Confederate army. The majority of the officers served as either major generals or brigadier generals in the Confederate forces. The collection includes the photographs of many lesser known officers, as well as the famous; such as Lee, Beauregard, Morgan, Jackson, and Stuart. The collection also includes photos of past American presidents and European royalty. Acid free photocopies have been placed in the original photograph album and the originals are in a separate container. Both copies have the subject's name on it. The cartes-de-visites were taken by photographers in Mobile, Nashville, and New York; and are roughly two by five inches.

ArchivalResource: .66 cubic ft. (2 archives containers).

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Kirkland, Richard Rowland, 1843-1863. Richard Rowland Kirkland papers, 1861-1965; (bulk, 1861- 1862).

Title: Richard Rowland Kirkland papers, 1861-1965; (bulk, 1861- 1862).

Consisting of 3 typescript copies of letters, 29 Apr. 1861 - 24 July 1862, camp near Richmond, Va., Richard R. Kirkland to his brother, Jesse A. Kirkland, and Rosa Truesdale, describing his journey with his regiment to Virginia and some of the battles in which he had partipated, and listing people he knew who had been killed or wounded; printed manuscript, ca. Apr. 1880, "Richard Kirkland, the Humane Hero of Fredericksburg," tearsheet of article from Southern Historical Society Papers, reprinted from a letter to the editor of the Charleston News and Courier by Gen. J.B. Kershaw and recounting Kirkland's heroism and humanity in risking his life to tend to the wounded in front of the enemy line; and newspaper clipping, The State (Columbia, S.C.), 23 Nov. 1930, "Medal of Honor of Sergeant Kirkland Commemorates Deed at Marye's Height," with reprint of General Kershaw's letter, additional biographical information on Kirkland provided by Robert M. Kennedy, University of South Carolina, and letters to the editor re the loss and return of Kirkland's Medal of Honor. Also includes printed pamphlet, ca. 1880, "A Fountain for Richard Kirkland, The Hero," soliciting contributions toward erecting a fountain in his honor; and invitation, 29 Sept. [1965], issued by the Civil War Centennial Committee of Fredericksburg, Va., for the dedication of a Kirkland memorial.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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Additional Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill (1830) 1840-1947

Title: Additional Papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill (1830) 1840-1947

This collection contains ca.709 items (five Hollinger boxes) 2.5 linear feet and consists of letters written by the Dickins family (of Ossian Hall) who were cousins of the Randolph family of Edgehill and direct descendants of Asbury Dickins, the first Secretary of the Senate of the United States from 1836 to 1861. Francis Asbury Dickins, (1804-1879) son of Asbury Dickins, married Margaret Harvie Randolph (1815- 1891) in 1839. Francis and Margaret Dickins had five children to live to adulthood: Francis Asbury Dickins, Jr. (Frank) (1841-1890), Frances Margaret Dickins (Fanny) (1842-1914), Harriot Wilson Dickins Wight (Dick, Hallie) (1844-1917), Randolph Dickins (Ran) (1853-1914), Albert Dickins (Bertie) (1855-1913). The collection of family letters spans from (1830) 1840 to 1947. The children grew up in Virginia (Fredericksburg-Ossian Hall and Richmond) during the height of the Civil War. Through the letters, they discuss the war, the confederacy, their feelings about the Yankees and slavery, as well as world events in China, (Chinese coolies), Russia and Germany. The collection also reveals close personal relationships, such as the secret courtship between Harriot Wight's daughter Theodora Wight and John May Keim, a divorced man, before they were married. The letters tell the personal stories of each member of the Dickins family; describe daily fighting in the Civil War and the concerns of the women at home; the difficulties of finding permanent work after the war; and the changes in American society at the turn of the century. Albert White Dickins (Bertie) (1855-1913) who was less than ten years old during the Civil War struggled off and on to find work when he was older and the war was over. He mostly worked on the railroads in Aurora, Indiana. He wrote his mother in 1879 to comfort her when his father died. In later years, he could not get railroad work (1908 and 1909) and he wrote letters to his sister Harriot asking for financial help while he tried to find any kind of work, even pressing bricks. There are also letters from Francis Asbury Dickins to each of his daughters, Fanny Dickins and Harriot Dickins Wight. He wrote to Fanny about his dislike of his job where he was very busy and then had nothing to do. He also wrote about helping Fanny to get a job at the Commisionaries Ministry Department and mentioned the 6th Virginia Cavalry that was captured by the enemy. To Harriot he wrote that Ran was promoted to a higher class in the Marines; that he was trying to get a large crop of corn; he offered consolation on her grief after she lost her baby and then two months later when her husband died. He also advised her to ask John Harvie to be her legal guardian. Some of the most interesting letters relating to the Civil War are from Frank Dickins, Jr. when he wrote to his sister Harriot Dickins Wight on August 15, 1862: "have not had time until now to answer it as we were then away from camp and have only spent one night in camp since. On this day week we left Orange Co., [Va] and took up our line of march across the river towards Culpeper whilst our regiment was moving along were fired into by some yankey calvalry. We received the order to charge them which we did with a run for about six miles, killing fifteen and taking eighteen or twenty prisoners. I shot one of the scoundrels that I know of and probably one or two more. I had a very narrow escape as I was riding along at a full run holding my pistol up before me. I received a pistol shot on my pistol. If it had not struck the pistol I would not have been very good for putting my cheek out as it would have hit me full in the face. We lost but one horse he was run down and died in a few hours, it was very hard on all our horses. Our enemy proved to be a portion of the first Maryland Cavalry who were out on a scouting expedition. We saw them within two miles of Madison County where there were six regiments of them. We then turned back and took up our former course of march. That night we slept in the enemies campground eight miles this side of Culpeper Co.[Va]. The next morning we were drawn up in line of battle and remained so all day (called the day of the fight at Slaughter Mountain) [Cedar Mountain] waiting to be called upon which luckily we were not. About 12:00 the cannonading commenced and lasted all that day and until eleven o'clock at night at times it was terrific, the next morning a little before day we started across the battlefield to on picket and it was sickening to hear the groans of the wounded and dying and see the dark forms and pale faces of the dead as they faintly glittered in the moonshine. We often having to run up our horses to keep from riding over them, about sunrise we were taken from our posts and went on a scout with General J.E.B. Stuart who came up expressly for the fight. We did nothing however but capture straggling yankeys at a house getting their dinners. We then came back and took our old posts where we remained for three days with nothing but roasting ears [corn on the cob] for ourselves and a little hay for our horses to eat. On the morning of the third day the enemies cavalry appeared in sight in large numbers, but 'Stonewall' had given them the slip and was with all his army, excepting our brigade of cavalry back again on his side of the river all we had to do was to fall back on regiment and then cross the river in a hurry, or in camp parlance 'skedaddle'. I did not leave my post more than five minutes before it was occupied by the advance of the enemys army I was very near being caught. We will have some stirring times in a few days as we have just received orders to draw and cook six days rations by tomorrow morning. Jackson, Lee and Longstreet are all here with a very large force I should think at least 100,000 men. The yankeys are in large force in the direction of Liberty Hills about eighteen miles from here. Now is the time for all to come up to the mark, it is our countrys hour of need we will either loose all that we have gained or gain as much more in the impending campaign, let every man face the music and stand up to his duty determined to do or die, may God in his wisdom protect and prosper [arms]. Dr. Plaster formerly our first Lieutenant and who was taken by the by the yankeys on the Manassas retreat, has just returned having been exchanged, he tells me that father was in jail in the old capitol when he went there but was released in a few days he was then quite well but very much worried" He also wrote that when they were not in the heat of battle they would engage in horse racing: "Our regiment has turned into quite a jockey club". (December 14, 1862). Despite this levity, it was no doubt difficult. He also wrote: "man who is born of woman and enlisted in Jackson's army is few of days and short of rations". After the war Frank got a job working on the railroad. (1872-1882). In a letter to his sister Harriot, he mentions that ladies visited the railroad camps with thirty pies and lemonade and humorously he added "Lemons were not the only thing squeezed." In 1882, Frank wrote that he could not tolerate the cold winter months working outside: "I have been sick every day this winter". By 1887 he was staying in a church home suffering so badly he could only sit up for fifteen minutes at a time. He died in 1890. Margaret Harvie Dickins wrote many letters to her daughter Harriot Wight, and one of them was about negroes in Aurora, Indiana: "They talk here of the dreadful sufferings of the negroes at the South and are, (it is supposed only for political purposes) enticing large numbers to emigrate to this state, holding out promises of plenty of work and high wages, and even take up collections for them in their churches and yet in this town they will not allow a black person to stay an hour. I have never seen one in this place" On the subject of politics she wrote: "What do you think of General Hancock. If it does not affect my three boys I don't care which is President". (Bayard, Hancock or Scott). There are also letters from Randolph Dickins who after the Civil war, became a Colonel in the Marine Corps and was stationed in Shanghai, China. He wrote to his mother (January 26, 1880) that he "can appreciate your description of the equality of all classes for you know I have lived up in New England and know what Maine and New Hampshire Yankees are and understand their customs though I suppose it is worse out there than it is up north and I don't quite fancy that sort of life and think when I get back I shall make Norfolk my home". He also wrote a lot about the Chinese coolies: [people] "talk about slavery but this is the worst country in the world for it and there was never anything in the U.S. to equal the Coolie system out here. They work in a way that I did not think it possible for any human being to work; are always forced to their [ ] by the drivers and there they are naked with the exception of one [] cotton garment which only covers [half] of their bodies and their []food is such that even a dog at home would not eat it. They eat all sorts of offal putrid meat, fish and their food really smells so offensively that it is sickening to go near it and as for dirt they never dare so much as wash their hands and their skin is caked and scaly from dirt and often covered with []. They are certainly the worst dysentery lurking people in the world. I met a coolie the other day with a dead snake and out of curiosity I asked him what he was going to do with it and he replied 'make chow chow' which means he was going to eat it. They don't waste anything and all sorts of vermin beings, rats or anything goes for food. You can see them outside of town with a reel and pole catching grasshoppers which they think make capital chow chow". He also wrote that "the English people make a great deal about the poor suffering slaves in America but they don't seem to notice the misery of this overcrowded overworked uncivilized community out here and only go in for getting as much of their land away from there as they can and yet I would a thousand times rather be a slave under the masters than a Chinese coolie". Randolph Dickins also wrote to his mother (January 26, 1880) about the Margaret (Peggy) O'Neill Timberlake Eaton affair (1831) when he saw her death notice in the paper: "I saw by one of the papers that had an account in it of Mrs. Eaton's death that Lieut. Randolph succeeded purser Timberlake and that he was dismissed by President Jackson where upon he pulled President Jackson's nose at Alexandria. Was that Uncle John or who was it." [It was John Brockenbrough Randolph, brother of Margaret Harvie Dickins Randolph] Dickins was probably interested in Lieutenant Randolph since he was mentioned in the newspaper and he was his Uncle. After being dismissed from his new role as purser (replacing poor John Bowie Timberlake) the Lieutenant must have retaliated by insulting President Jackson On April 21,1880 Randolph Dickins wrote to his mother about China and Russia: "some excitement out here over the trouble between China and Russia and it is confidently expected that there will be a war and if so that it will go hard with China unless England comes to the rescue. The Chinese are making it very interesting for Chung Hai the ex-minister who made the treaty with Russia. They have taken away all of his fortune which was very great and now have him shut up in a cage, which they say he will never leave alive. The Chinese are collecting quite a fleet down at Woo Sung just below here. They have some very fine ships in their navy but they don't know how to handle them and they put most of their faith in their war juiucks which are hard looking old tubs and are about as effective in a naval war as Noah's Ark call it 'the terror of the Western Nations' to try to scare Russians which it doesn't, but they don't seem to realize that". Randolph returned to the United States and lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was stationed on the U.S.S. Oregon during the Spanish-American War. He died in 1914. [ Colonel ? E. J.] Harvie, a cousin of Fanny M. Dickins wrote to her about the Civil War on February 17, 1862: "We are not fighting the battles of Jeff Davis, Joe Johnston, or the State of Virginia- our independence hangs trembling in the balance Must we yield to every man's wishes to 'go home', and be utterly, hopelessly crushed? I am not arguing the question it is unnecessary but it is too ridiculous to think of opposing McCleland's trained band of regulars next spring, with raw levies from the South". On January 22 [1863] a friend of Fanny's named Herbert [?] wrote to her : "We have again wars and rumors of wars. We have been under arms for the last week, and were again notified last evening to prepare for action. The enemy have been making demonstrations for some time past, but I do not think they will cross here again; They are painfully reminded of the past, and they shrink from meeting the tried heroes of the Army of Northern Virginia, they shrink with horrors at the thoughts. We have had horrible weather for the last day or two, and everything looks disagreeable around us. The roads are awful, so we cannot amuse ourselves with riding, but have to be contented with domestic sports, such as cards, chess. We have had any quantity of rumors here about foreign intervention, but I suppose it is all trash." On January 29, 1863, Herbert wrote to Fanny again: "We have been on a terrible march and have just returned. We started day before yesterday in a heavy rain and after marching about 10 miles went into bivouac for the night. It seems that we anticipated the movements of the enemy and thought that they would cross above Fredericksburg but I suppose the weather prevented them, we were then ordered to put up some fortifications in order to prevent our left flank from being turned. So our men commenced to work, in the meantime it was snowing terribly, so we passed a day and two nights without tents, and I do assure you Fanny that I have never spent such a time since I have been in service. Early this morning we received order to come back to our present camps, the roads were horrible, snow and mud rising about knee deep. I have heard and read of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow but I really think that our sufferings could not have been increased possibly." Theodora Wight Keim, the daughter of Harriot Dickins Wight, wrote many letters to her mother about people that they knew; parties that they attended; clothes that they wore; and memories of their home Ossian Hall. The letters reflect changes in society during the turn of the century from traveling by horse and carriage to train cars; the invention of the electric toaster; electric light treatment for hands and feet, and the popularity of backgammon parties. Also, in 1914, she wrote about her concern for Uncle Randolph Dickins being abroad while the Germans were only fifty miles outside of Paris. Theodora Wight Keim also wrote many love letters to her husband John May Keim before and after they were married. John May Keim was recently divorced from his first wife when he met and fell in love with Theodora [1889?]. She insisted that they wait for several years before telling her mother of their engagement. They were finally married in November of 1905. Her letters stress the difficulty and longing they felt while they waited and were forced to be apart. There is a letter to the Army from the women who lived at Fighting Creek requesting a prolonged stay for Private W. Keys Howard, noting that his presence was necessary in order to console them while so many men were away at war. Harriot Dickins Wight's name was the first signature on the letter. Miscellaneous items include 25-trip family ticket for F.A. Dickins with the Alexandria & Washington R.R. Co; pamphlet on Why I Love The American Episcopal Church; receipt for grain from Francis A. Dickins Jr to Wm. W. Wight, Dr.; doctor's bill estate of of Mr. Frank Dickins to W.T. Walker for protracted attention to self $38.00 November 1878 to February 1879; deed from Estate of Francis A.Dickins for two dollars and fifty cents to Margaret H. Dickins from clerks office, Dearborn County, Indiana ; bill from Brown, Brothers & Co New York for 20 pounds in favor of Harriot Wight. There are two miscellaneous poems as well as photographs of Harriot and Theodora Wight and an African American woman simply called Mammy. The collection also contains letters from their cousins, the Randolph family of Edgehill, specifically Maria Randolph Mason to Fanny M. Dickins (Oct 20, 1892); Alice Meikleham (daughter of Septimia Meikleham and granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson) to Fanny M. Dickins (Nov. 1892); Jane Randolph to Fanny M. Dickins and Harriot Dickins Wight (1862) (Box 4); and Ellen Ruffin to Margaret Harvie Dickins. (1860) (Box 4). There is also an obituary of Cary Ruffin Randolph, granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. (Box 4) The Randolphs are also mentioned in several letters: [J. T.] Burke (cousin) to Fanny Dickins on November 11, 1892 thanking her for her photographs and genealogies on the Randolph family. He wrote, "I am sure all the 'decendants' owe you a debt of gratitude for such a handsome restoration of the old family vault. Browse [Hore Browse Trist, son of Virginia and Phillip Trist, grandson of Thomas Jefferson] Trist brought me your letter and it is carefully preserved among family archives." There is also a letter from Margaret Harvie Dickins to her daughter Harriot Dickins Wight where she described a visit she had with her Randolph cousins, Virginia Trist, Mary Randolph and Patsy Trist Burke at Burke's station. The Trists and their children were boarding at Colonel Burke's old place for the summer. "We had a delightful ride [and] a very pleasant visit. They received us all most affly [affectionately] (July 11, 1873). There are also letters from Louisa Randolph (Margaret Harvie Dickins' mother) to her granddaughter Harriot Dickins Wight. There are letters from Harriot Dickins Wight to her sister Fanny Dickins between 1860 and 1865. She wrote that they were expecting the Yankees every day and soldiers were staying with them every night. She also showed concern for her father and his shortage of income. She also mentions that she received a letter from Frank about the battle of Charles City where Frank was very brave and the Captain and several men were taken prisoners. There are also letters from Harriot to her brother Frank Dickins Jr.; letters between Harriot Dickins Wight and her mother in-law Grace M. Wight; letters from Harriot Dickins Wight to her husband Henry Theodore Wight; a letter to Harriot Dickins Wight from one of her sons; a letter to Harriot Dickins Wight from her father in-law William W. Wight. There are also some papercuttings that were made by Harriot Dickins Wight. Also in the collection is a large account book of Harriot Dickins Wight from 1882 to 1892; two photographs of Harriot and Theodora (and African Americans Mammy and Uncle Robert) at Elmington mounted on an oversized board; an original Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) newspaper from October 27, 1875 and a Confederate Column in the same paper from 1896; an oversize letter from Henry Gardner to his brother Samuel Spring Gardner (preacher, lawyer, framer of Alabama Constitution) who was in the 73d, 96th and 83d of the U.S. Colored Infantry. (These items are in the oversize trays.)

ArchivalResource: ca.709 items

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Young, George C., fl. 1861-1865. Civil War correspondence of George C. Young and I.A. Young, 1861-1865.

Title: Civil War correspondence of George C. Young and I.A. Young, 1861-1865.

The collection begins with two 1861 Sept., letters from I.A. Young, Fairfax Court House, Va., to family in Camden. S.C., describing the care of George who was wounded at the battle of First Manassas. An 1862 letter from George mentions the capture of pickets and Colonels Joseph Brevard Kershaw and Radfort. Eleven 1863 letters detail action in and near Culpeper County, Va., and troop movements in the Shenandoah Valley. He praises General Wade Hampton; describes Weyer's Cave, Natural Bridge, deserted Union camps, and depredations by Union soldiers; and discusses fighting around Brandy Station on August 1. Three 1864 letters mention the capture of frostbitten Negroes carried off during Averell's raid, and comment unfavorably on the drinking, smoking and horseback riding of young ladies in Craig County, Va. In a letter, 1865 May 15, he writes from Newport News, Va., that has been captured and is sick and "very feeble" with all his personal possessions stolen by the 12th New York Cavalry. Two undated letters mention action around the Chickahominy, River.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

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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.

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Kershaw, Joseph Brevard, 1822-1894. Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1762-1938 [manuscript].

Title: Joseph Brevard Kershaw papers, 1762-1938 [manuscript].

Papers pertaining to the Kershaw and DeSaussure families of South Carolina, chiefly 20th-century genealogical materials. Earlier items include colonial deeds and accounts for goods; scattered antebellum correspondence; slight postwar correspondence of Confederate Gen. Joseph Brevard Kershaw; and correspondence, 1899-1938, of John Kershaw, Episcopal priest of Charleston, S.C., including copies of letters he wrote from the Lambeth Conference in London, 1908.

ArchivalResource: 150 items (1.0 linear ft.).

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