6366154 http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g75pkc revised SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context revised 2015-09-17 machine CPF merge program Merge v2.0 revised 2016-08-10T01:07:46 machine SNAC EAC-CPF Parser Bulk ingest into SNAC Database revised 2016-08-10T01:07:46 human System Service (system@localhost) created 2026-05-27 machine SNAC EAC-CPF Serializer SNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPF person Honour, Rebecca Caroline Seignious presumed Honour, Theodore Augustus, 1831-1913. Honour, Theodore Augustus, 1831-1913. Theodore Augustus Honour papers, 1859-1865. Honour, Theodore Augustus, 1831-1913. Theodore Augustus Honour papers, 1859-1865. 390 items. Civil War letters chiefly addressed to Honour's wife, Rebecca Caroline Seignious Honour, describing military life in South Carolina and Virginia, including 27 Feb. 1862-April 1864, discussing activities at Morris Island, James Island, Fort Sumter, and other camps near Charleston, S.C., his consideration of hiring a substitute, and other matters; and summer 1864, Petersburg, Va., describing siege, reporting pests, disease and meager rations. Letters from Honour's father, J[ohn] H[enry] H[onour], 10, 14 Mar. and 28 July 1862, Charleston, discuss minor naval engagement, arrival of a blockade running ship with army supplies, Southern military unpreparedness and conscription, Northern attitudes to the war, and hope of European intervention. Theodore A. Honour's letters to wife, 27 Feb. 1862-28 Feb. 1863, describe techonological innovations and camp life, including use of torpedo boats and iron gun boats; battlefields and corpses; poor opinion of S[tates] R[ights] Gist as a General; engagement against African American troops; presence of spies; executions; and account of defection of Robert Smalls to the Federal fleet upon the steamer Planter, 14 May 1862. Letters, 3 Mar.-28 Apr. 1864, from Columbia, S.C., describe business matters and relocation of Bank of Charleston, seizure of railroads, return of low country families from refuge in up country; and account of meeting the captured female doctor, Mary Edwards Walker. Also includes undated memoirs, with description of Washington Light Infantry veterans' tour of the Northeast. University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries