Recollections of Louisa Rebecca Hayne McCord (Mrs. Augustinge T. Smythe) [ca. 1928] ; daughter of David J. and Louisa Cheves McCord...

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Recollections of Louisa Rebecca Hayne McCord (Mrs. Augustinge T. Smythe) [ca. 1928] ; daughter of David J. and Louisa Cheves McCord...

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Transcription of Smythe's reminiscences recorded ca. 1920, about her life, ca. 1850-1877, at Lang Syne Plantation (Calhoun County, S.C.), her family and friends, travels in the U.S. and Europe, and her experiences during the antebellum era, Civil War and Reconstruction. Topics discussed include comments on professors at South Carolina College, especially Francis Lieber; anecdotes re African American slaves and servants; summers at Narragansett (Rhode Island) and other resorts; trip to Europe; secession; Civil War and women's work and aid societies; burning of Columbia, S.C., and the aftermath; her wedding; Reconstruction and life in Charleston, S.C., after the war during military occupation; the formation of the "Rifle Clubs," and political unrest; and family history information re the Hayne, Cheves, Adger, and McCord families. Her account of the burning of Columbia during Feb. 1865, mentions a note of warning the family received about Sherman's intentions for the city, reports looting and robbery observed in the streets, and the invasion of their home by looting soldiers, who left when Gen. O.O. Howard took the house as his headquarters. She writes of soldiers setting fires with cotton, and her mother's conversation with General Howard, in which Mrs. McCord asked "how they as soldiers brought themselves to shell defenseless women and children in their beds," and a glimpse of General Sherman.

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