John Cheves Haskell papers, 1857-1941 [manuscript].

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John Cheves Haskell papers, 1857-1941 [manuscript].

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Civil War letters from J. C. Haskell of South Carolina to his family, and a typed transcript copy of his reminiscences, written ca. 1903 (137 p.). Haskell served in Virginia as an aide to generals Longstreet and Beauregard successively. The recollections describe experiences and personalities in detail and include the attack on Charleston, S.C., accounts of the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, and of the Appomattox Campaign and of action around New Bern and Washington, N.C. Officers mentioned include Horace Randall, R. J. Moses, Joseph E. Johnston, Richard S. Ewell, Isaac R. Trimble, Stonewall Jackson, Robert A. Toombs, and James Longstreet and P. G. T. Beauregard. Also included in the papers are a few post-war letters while Haskell was a lawyer at Columbia, S.C., and scattered other family and genealogical papers.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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