Letter, 1993 May 16, Irving, Tex., [to] Mary Bondurant Warren, Athens, Ga.

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Curry, Louise Davis. Letter, 1993 May 16, Irving, Tex., [to] Mary Bondurant Warren, Athens, Ga.

Letter, 1993 May 16, Irving, Tex., [to] Mary Bondurant Warren, Athens, Ga.

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Letter from researcher in Texas to editor of a familiy history magazine in Georgia, providing transcriptions of 3 letters, 1897, 1898, and 1907, to John Foster Kelso, a native of Spartanburg, S.C., who relocated to Texas in 1870, written from friends in South Carolina, relating news of friends and fellow Confederate veterans, crops, and politics during Reconstruction and later. Kelso served in the Confederate States Army, SC Volunteers, Cavalry, 2nd Regiment, Company E; he served with "Amsey" W. Gaston [Amzi Williford Gaston], and Capt Alvin H. Dean. In 1870, Kelso family moved to Texas Three letters to J.F. Kelso consist of letter, 1 Sept. 1897, Duncan, S.C., from Alvin H. Dean, re attendance at a veterans' reunion in Greenville, S.C., thoughts of relocating to Texas, and reporting that "crops are not good here." Letter, 1898 Feb. 23, "Jeb," S.C. [Jedburgh? Colleton County, S.C.], Amsey W. Gaston, re surviving veterans with whom they served, "I think the most of them that are not dead are Tilmanites politically which has been a great curse to this country as incompetent scum make our laws...," encouraging Kelso to visit upcoming veteran reunion in Atlanta, discussing taxes, cotton trade, and his grown children, "my children are all with me yet except the oldest...we have eight boys and two girls." Letter, 10 Sept. 1901, Jeb, S.C., from Amsey W. Gaston, re locations of fellow veterans, prices, poor prospects for cotton crop, and extensive damage to corn crops due to flooding along Pacolet, Saluda, and Broad Rivers, and comments on the shooting, 6 Sept. 1901, of President William McKinley, "The people sure seem to regret very much the president's getting shot, but are all glad that it was not a southerner that shot him. They hired the scum of the earth to fight us and now they are getting pay for it in strikes and assassinations; give me the Negroes instead of such white people as that is. I want them to keep them up north."

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