Letter : Cheraw, S.C., to her sister, 1865 March 16.

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Letter : Cheraw, S.C., to her sister, 1865 March 16.

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Letter concerns family matters, Lining's fears that Union troops had burned the city of Chester, S.C., the removal of hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers from a hospital in Cheraw to Sumter, S.C., Gen. Sherman's attack on Cheraw and the capture, burning, and looting of the city, an explosion of barrels of gunpowder left behind by Confederate troops, and Lining's slaves, who had stolen some of her belongings and fled.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Lining, Susan Bowen, 1822-1873.

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Susan Bowen Lining, wife of Charles Lining, was the daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Bowen (1779-1839), a Protestant Episcopal minister and bishop of South Carolina. From the description of Letter : Cheraw, S.C., to her sister, 1865 March 16. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144178 ...