Loula Ayres Rockwell recollections, 1953.

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Loula Ayres Rockwell recollections, 1953.

"The Election of General Wade Hampton, South Carolina, 1876, as Seen by a Small Girl," 1953, by Rockwell of Marion County, S.C. (typescript, 6 p.), and an autobiographical letter from her son, Paul Ayres Rockwell (b. 1889) of North Carolina, discussing his enlistment as a college student from Atlanta in the French Army in August 1914.

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