James Adger Smyth correspondence, 1861-1865 (bulk 1864).

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James Adger Smyth correspondence, 1861-1865 (bulk 1864).

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Correspondence of James Adger Smyth chiefly consists of letters from Smyth at military camps and battlefields in James Island (S.C.), Virginia, and elsewhere to his wife Anne R. Smyth. The main body of the letters gives an almost day by day account from March through August 1864 of the movements of Company A of the 25th South Carolina Volunteers, General Johnson Hagood's Brigade, in which Smyth was Quartermaster-sergeant. Letters also discuss family matters, and include a letter (26 July 1861) from Smyth to his aunt Jane (Jane A. Adger), and a letter (10 July 1864) to Smyth from William Porcher Miles at Richmond (Va.) regarding Smyth's inquiry about an appointment as a quartermaster.

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

Hagood, Johnson, 1829-1898

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Confederate army officer, governor, and public official of Georgia. From the description of Letter of Johnson Hagood, 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450700 ...

Smyth, Anne R., 1836-1901.

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Adger, Jane Ann, 1822-1899.

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Smyth, James Adger, 1837-1920.

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James Adger Smyth was a Charleston businessman and was the valedictorian of the College of Charleston in 1858. He was also a member of Company A of the 25th South Carolina Infantry in 1862. From the description of Papers, 1857-1858. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 49714080 Charleston, S.C. businessman. He was the son of Rev. Thomas Smyth (1808-1873) and Margaret Milligan Adger (1807-1884). In April of 1862 James Adger Smyth joined Company A of the 25th South Car...