Papers, 1842-1906.

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Papers, 1842-1906.

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Collection contains Jones's correspondence and focuses on the Civil War. Some letters are from Jones to his parents, written while a student at S.C. College and a member of a volunteer group concerned with abolition. In all of the letters he wrote with a terse style, relating news and events. He includes detailed accounts of the military activities surrounding Charleston and Fort Sumter, such as iron-clad battles, bombardment of Sumter and hand to hand combat. Letters of family members, including his brother Cadwallader (Waddy) Jones, also give vivid pictures of the military and social aspects of the war in a broad area of the South. There is an account of the June 1862 twelve-day forced march to Fredericksburg. Other correspondence reflects Jones's courtship and marriage to Ellen Adams. He was probably a member of the Ku Klux Klan and letters tell of his arrest and imprisonment in 1871. Other items include legal papers, miscellany such as an unidentified photograph, and papers concerning the United Confederate Veterans, including data on many veterans. Part of the Harry L. and Mary K. Dalton Collection.

274 items.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7413655

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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United Confederate Veterans

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Organized 1889. From the description of United Confederate Veterans scrapbooks, 1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276172561 Henry Stewart formed a company nicknamed the "Hamilton Blues" for the Confederacy during the Civil War. After the war, this Florida native was elected as Camp Commander and namesake for Fort Stewart of the United Confederate Veterans located in Jasper, Florida. The organization was designed to orchestrate memorials to Confederate veterans and support...

South Carolina College

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Jones, Cadwallader.

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Jones, Iredell.

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Hillsborough, N.C. native, son of Colonel Cadwallader Jones and Annie Isabella Iredell, daughter of N.C. governor James Iredell. Jones spent his youth in Hillsborough, and on family holdings near Rock Hill, S.C. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Washington Light Infantry and was wounded by a minie ball at the first Battle of Manassas. He later became a Second Lieutenant in the First S.C. Artillery, and then an aide-de-camp. From the description of Papers, 1842-1906. (Duke University ...