Letter books, 1845-1890.

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Letter books, 1845-1890.

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Letter books of a Camden, South Carolina railroad construction engineer and plantation owner. Correspondence, 1845-1854, is with railroad officials and employees concerning railroad problems, and consists of copies of letters written while in charge of construction for the Camden branch of the South Carolina Railroad, 1845-1850, and for the North Carolina Railroad, 1850-1854; and while in charge of survey for the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, 1854. Correspondence, 1855-1890, is largely personal although up to 1870 there are some letters to the plantation manager and to merchants in Charleston. The correspondence contains information on prices, slavery, economic conditions, secession, the viewpoint of a southern planter before, during, and after the war, labor problems, the effect of the war on a southern family and a plantation, and adjustments after the war.

1.4 c.f. (13 volumes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6846947

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Charleston and Savannah Railroad

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