Papers of the Duncan, Kinard, Sanders, and Tucker families, 1843-1961.

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Papers of the Duncan, Kinard, Sanders, and Tucker families, 1843-1961.

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Correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs documenting five generations of descendants of planter and physician Francis Marion Tucker (1828-1862) and his wife, Addie Medora Nesbitt Tucker (1833-1907); consisting primarily of the Civil War letters of Tucker, and the twentieth-century business and professional letters of civil engineer Daniel Tompkins Duncan (1895-1977). Tucker's letters to his wife discuss management of overseer, slaves, and their plantation in Spartanburg District; camp life in Columbia and Charleston, S.C.; hiring of substitutes; patriotic fervor of the times and the divided opinion within the ranks re legality of Governor's calls to deploy the state militia in the service of Confederate Army in Virginia. at Manassas, 30 August 1862. Other topics discussed by Tucker include battles, June 1862, on James Island, S.C., including Tucker's low opinion of the Confederate military leadership; and battles at various places in Virginia, before Tucker's death. Other materials include an 1889 stock certificate, Ninety-Six Manufacturing Co.; student papers, ca. 1890s, from Columbia Female College, Columbia, and Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C.; a description of a visit to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; program, 1900, of music by the Ninety-Six String Band, Fellowship Academy, Greenwood County, S.C., and an undated genealogy of the Kinard family. Twentieth-century materials chiefly document the career and professional affiliations of civil engineer Daniel Tompkins Duncan and the construction of hydroelectric facilities on the Saluda River, including the Buzzards Roost dam project, Greenwood County, S.C., and the unsuccessful attempt by Duke Power to block construction, 1935-1937.

561 items and 35 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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