John Johnson papers, 1862-1906.

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John Johnson papers, 1862-1906.

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Correspondence, scrapbook, journal, and other papers pertaining to the defense of Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor. Includes letters (1862-1864) from Johnson at Charleston, Fort Sumter, and other Confederate batteries to family members concerning fortifications at Fort Sumter and elsewhere, conditions inside Fort Sumter during bombardments, religion, family concerns, and other war matters. Includes letters (1866-1899) from Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard concerning Johnson's book The Defense of Charleston Harbor (1890). Scrapbook contains official memoranda, oaths, orders, correspondence, copies and extracts of correspondence, requests for supplies, promotion notifications, wage scale for engineers, directives from the C.S.A. Engineer Department of S.C., duties of engineers, lists of engineers, the fortification of Fort Sumter and Charleston harbor, slave labor in the Engineering Corps, designs and defenses for Fort Sumter. Correspondents include D.B. Harris, C.H. Stevens, S.R. Gist, William H. Echols, Alfred Rhett, and others. Journal (1863) records the bombardment of Fort Sumter and work on the defenses at the fort and nearby batteries. Original manuscript of Johnson's book, The Defense of Charleston Harbor, including Fort Sumter and the Adjacent Islands (1890), an annotated map of "The Attack on Charleston by the Yankee Iron Clad Fleet, April 7, 1863." Also includes the order book (1863) and letterbook (1864) of Stephen Elliott, Jr., commanding officer of Fort Sumter containing many letters to S.C. Boylston.

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Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

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Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers

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Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864

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Harris, David Bullock, 1814-1864

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Tobacco exporter and Confederate Army general; from Louisa County, Va. From the description of Papers, 1789-1894. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19595507 Tobacco exporter and Confederate Army general from Louisa County, Va. From the description of Family papers 1789-1894. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122561103 David Bullock Harris was a tobacco exporter and Confederate Army general from Louisa County, Virgin...

Confederate States of America. Engineer Bureau

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Johnson, John, 1829-1907

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University of Virginia student from Charleston, S.C.; afterwards a major in the Confederate Army and an Episcopal minister. From the description of Inscriptions from the University of Virginia autograph album of John Johnson [manuscript[, 1859-1860. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56830715 Chief Confederate engineer at Fort Sumter, and Episcopal clergyman of Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of John Johnson papers, 1862-1906. (The Sou...

Boylston, S. C.

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Rhett, Alfred Moore, 1829-1889.

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Elliott, Stephen, 1830-1866.

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Commander of Fort Sumter, Aug. 1863-May 1864, during Civil War; native of Beaufort District, S.C.; son of Stephen Elliott (1806-1866), first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocease of Georgia. From the description of Calendar of selected papers, 1861-1865, of Stephen Elliott (1830-1866) among the Elliott family papers, 2004 Apr. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 57175299 ...

Echols, William H., -1909

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Johnson family.

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