Charles Alfred DeSaussure memoirs, ca. 1931.

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Charles Alfred DeSaussure memoirs, ca. 1931.

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Typescript copies of Charles Alfred DeSaussure's memoirs of plantation life (1850-1870) and life in the Confederate Army. The first manuscript describes special events and experiences primarily at Woodstock Plantation (Beaufort District, S.C.), the distribution of food and goods to slaves, the activities of slaves, names and descriptions of slaves and their work, religious life, Gullah language and people, and DeSaussure's education and recreational activities (swimming, boating, and riding). The second manuscript (1931) concerns the Beaufort Volunteer Artillery and Company C of the 8th South Carolina Regiment. DeSaussure describes life in camp (including forms of entertainment), the duties of the picket squad, hunger and the search for food and other provisions, the advance of Sherman, encounters with the enemy in South and North Carolina during his 575 mile march, and the difficult times encountered after the war.

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College of Charleston, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

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Confederate States of America. Army. Beaufort Light Artillery.

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DeSaussure, Charles Alfred, 1846-

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Charles Alfred DeSaussure was born on 21 September 1846 into a prominent Huguenot family of South Carolina. His mother was Jane Hay Hutson, the second wife of Louis McPherson DeSaussure. His father owned a 780-acre plantation known as Woodstock in Beaufort County, S.C. Charles lived at Woodstock for part of the year and spent the other part at the family's summer home in the pinelands of McPhersonville, S.C. When Charles was eleven, his father sold the summer home and bought another one in the t...