Papers, 1741-1931; (bulk 1830-1886).

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Taveau, Augustin Louis, 1828-1886. Papers, 1741-1931; (bulk 1830-1886).

Papers, 1741-1931; (bulk 1830-1886).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20188572

Family, personal, literary, and business correspondence and other papers (chiefly 1830-1886) of Taveau, of his father, Louis Augustin Thomas Taveau, and of their family. The collection centers around Augustin Louis Taveau and relates to his education, activities as a poet, European travels (1852-1854), career in the Confederate Army, postwar condemnation of Confederate leaders, removal to Maryland (1866), and agricultural efforts. Other subjects include family and legal matters, social life and customs in South Carolina, the education of Southern girls, rice planting before the Civil War, planting in Mississippi and Louisiana (1850s), agriculture and scientific farming in Maryland, Charleston during the Civil War, postwar politics, and other matters. Correspondents and persons mentioned include William Aiken, Josias Allston, Henry L. Benbow, A.R. Chisholm, Ralph Elliott, Nathan George Evans, J.A. Gadsden, Horace Greeley, William Gregg, Thomas S. Grimké, Robert Y. Hayne, O.W. Holmes, W.H. Huger, Robert Hume, T.J. Hyland-MacGrath, Andrew Johnson, Carolina Olivia Ball Laurens, Eliza G. Maybank, James L. Petigru, J.J. Pettigrew, William Gilmore Simms, Clifford Simons, Keating L. Simons, Admiral Joseph Smith, Horatio Sprague, John R. Thompson, and members of the Girardeau, Swinton, and Taveau families.

1,862 items.

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