Reminiscences of Thomas Pinckney Lowndes : typescript, 1933 / transcribed from the original by his son William Lowndes.

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Reminiscences of Thomas Pinckney Lowndes : typescript, 1933 / transcribed from the original by his son William Lowndes.

Typescript copy re Thomas Pinckney Lowndes' memories of his boyhood in Charleston, S.C., with observations on South Carolina social life and politics to 1876; including descriptions of various people, buildings, and traditions; political developments, including the secession crisis of 1851; duels; Civil War; bombardment of Charleston; ironclad warfare and the blockade; removal to Anderson, S.C.; death of Lincoln, "the greatest calamity to befall the South"; Reconstruction; African American suffrage; and the end of "Radical rule."

[59] leaves, unbound ; 30 cm.

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