Sanuel Catawba Lowry recollections and diary, 1861-1864 [manuscript].

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Sanuel Catawba Lowry recollections and diary, 1861-1864 [manuscript].

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Diary entries and recollections, with poems and brief essays, all by Samuel Catawba Lowry, who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, C.S.A., in Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The diary entries and recollections are vivid and detailed accounts of comrades and camp servants, soldiers' daily activities, hunting and fishing, nearby civilian conditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles. The essays include "The Right of the South to Secede from the North" and "Are we Rebels?"

1 v. (46 p.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Samuel Catawba Lowry (died 1864) was a Confederate soldier who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and South Carolina. Lowry was wounded at the battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run), 27-28 August 1862, and upon recovery, was discharged from the army for being underage. He apparently attended the Arsenal, a military school in Columbia, S.C., until his reenlistment in September 1863. He was killed in the battle of the Cra...