Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

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Papers of the Adger and Bowen families, 1824-1982.

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Chiefly family correspondence of Clara W. Adger Bowen and Orasmus Allan Bowen, and of her parents, Robert Adger and Jane Eliza Fleming Adger, and genealogical information re the Adger, Bowen, Hard, Fleming, Taylor and Whilden families. Topics include family and community life in Pendleton and Charleston, S.C., the annexation of Texas, the Civil War, travels in London and Italy, and South Carolina Hurricanes of 1854 and 1874. Includes manuscripts, 1775, British colonial post office seal for the state of South Carolina; broadside, 1858, "Zion's [Zion Presbyterian Church] Welcome"; letter, 29 Jan. 1862, in reference to complaints by [James] Chesnut and [States Rights] Gist regarding General [Nathan G.] Evans' mismanagement of their regiment; printed manuscript, 7 Nov. 1876, certifying that the bearer, a member of "The Honest Man's Party," voted for "Gen. Wade Hampton, and the Redemption of South Carolina"; and undated broadside, "Lee, The Hambletonian Stallion, " a horse owned by Orasmus Allan Bowen. Also includes photographs of Rivoli plantation, Eighteen Mile Creek at Rivoli, Janie E.A. Bowen, and Robert Adger by Charleston photographer George Cook. Bound volumes include the journal of Clara Walton Adger (later Mrs. Orasmus Allan Bowen) detailing her early travels between Charleston and Woodburn plantation near Anderson and including an account of her visit on 26 Mar. 1854 to Fort Hill, tha plantation home of John C. Calhoun; her diary, 1862, 1 May 1865 - 6 Oct. 1870, chiefly at Ashtabula, Rivoli, and Charleston, recording activities of Federal troops in the Pendleton area and life in Charleston during Reconstruction; "Geust Book," 1872-1901, for Rivoli and summer home on Sullivan's Island, with an account of the "Gale of September 1874"; typescript, 1938, "Memories of Mountain View" by Frank E. Taylor, recalling his boyhood in the 1880s and the Charleston earthquake of 1886; genealogy, 1960, "The Adger Family in the Pendleton District, South Carolina"; genealogy, 1978, "The Taylor-Bowen-Adger-Hard ancestors."

237 items + 8 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Adger family.

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Chesnut, James, 1815-1885

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Camden, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, state legislator, and U.S. Senator. He held several military posts during the Civil War including a staff position in Richmond, Va. from 1862 to 1864. His wife was Mary Boykin Miller (1823-1886). From the description of James Chesnut papers, 1850-1900. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36794015 Attorney, plantation owner, South Carolina Representative, South Carolina Senator, and U.S. Senator. A native of Ca...

Adger, Robert, 1814-1891

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Whilden family.

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Bowen, Orasmus Allan, 1823-1886

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Taylor, Frank E., 1873-1953.

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Zion Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.)

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Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915

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Bowen, Clara Adger, 1837-1915

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Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868

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Nathan George "Shanks" Evans (3 Feb. 1824-23 Nov. 1868) was a captain in the 2nd U.S. Cavalry who became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army; born in Darlington District, S.C.; 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy; assigned to the 1st Dragoons, with whom he served on the frontier in the West; following surrender, Evans taught school, 1866-1868 in Cokesbury (Greenwood County, S.C.) and in Alabama. From the description of Nathan George Evans papers, 1861-1...

Taylor family.

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Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864

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Fleming family.

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Adger, Jane Eliza Fleming, 1815-1871

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Hard family.

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Bowen family.

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