Letter, 1861 Mar. 15, Charleston [S.C., to] Samuel Wylie Crawford.

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Letter, 1861 Mar. 15, Charleston [S.C., to] Samuel Wylie Crawford.

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Letter written by W.A. Alston to S.W. Crawford [at Fort Sumter, S.C.?], in which Alston assures Crawford that "you are not forgotten by your Charleston friends although duty demands that we as well as you should take position for our own convictions" and states that while his Charleston friends differed with him, "we curse your employers the 'Black Cabinet."

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Crawford, Jr., Samuel Wylie, 1829-1892

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Crawford was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1846 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1850. He joined the U.S. Army as an assistant surgeon in 1851 and served in that capacity for ten years. Crawford was the surgeon on duty at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, during the Confederate bombardment in 1861, which represented the start of the Civil War. Despite his purely medical background, he was in command of several of ...

Alston, William Algernon, 1830-1867.

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Samuel Wylie Crawford was a native of Franklin County, Pa.; Crawford studied medicine, and in 1851 became an assistant surgeon in the U. S. army. He served in various forts in the southwest, principally in Texas, until 1860 when he was stationed in Charleston, S.C., at Fort Moultrie and later at Fort Sumter; Crawford commanded a battery during the bombardment. of Fort Sumter, 12 Apr. 1861. From the description of Letter, 1861 Mar. 15, Charleston [S.C., to] Samuel Wylie Crawford. (Uni...