Papers, 1855-1864.

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Papers, 1855-1864.

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Correspondence relates to personal matters, politics, the American Party, society in Washington, D.C., Civil War campaigns, battles, and strategy, deserters and mutiny among the troops (Jan. 1864), and Keitt's command of the forces on Sullivan's Island, S.C. (1862-1864). Includes letters of condolence on Keitt's death in the Battle of Cold Harbor (June, 1864).

146 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864

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United States Congressman from Orangeburg District, S.C., 1853- 1860; delegate to the secession convention of South Carolina; member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Ala. in Feb. 1861 and Richmond, Va., July 1861; raised the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment of Volunteers and was commissioned its colonel; promoted to Brigadier General..; wounded in the Battle of Cold Harbor, near Richmond, Va., and died of wounds, 4 June 1864. From the description of Lawr...

Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...