James S. Milling papers, 1852-1883 [manuscript].

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James S. Milling papers, 1852-1883 [manuscript].

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The collection is chiefly letters to James Milling from relatives and friends, including his father, David, in Fairfield Distict, S.C.; his brothers Thomas H. and William A. in South Carolina; his brothers David and John R. in Anderson County, Tex.; his wife near Camden, S. C.; schoolmasters from the Medical College of South Carolina, including an 1855 letter referring to sexual exploits of students; and friends settling frontier areas of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas. Many of these letters were written in colloquial English with unconventional grammar and spelling. Chief topics include student life at several South Carolina schools; plantation life and slave relations; travels in the Southwest frontier; the South Carolina home front during the Civil War; life in a military camp near Manassas, Va., in 1861; the war in Mississippi and Louisiana; the formation of Oklahoma; and postwar adjustment. There are few letters after 1866.

About 150 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7083707

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Medical College of the State of South Carolina

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Milne family.

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Milling, Mary W., fl. 1857-1866.

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Milling, William A.

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Milling, David, Jr.

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Milling, John R.

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Milling, James S., fl. 1854-1883.

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James S. Milling was the son of David Milling, a planter near Jackson's Creek in the Fairfield District of South Carolina. Although James attended medical school at the Medical College of South Carolina in Charleston, he seems to have been chiefly preoccupied with farming. After leaving Charleston in 1854, he returned to the Fairfield District and married his cousin Mary of Bairds Hill near Camden in 1857. He spent several years scouting land in the West, assisted by his brothers John and David,...

Milling, Thomas H.

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Milling, David.

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