Hugh Kerr Aiken papers, 1832-1866.

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Hugh Kerr Aiken papers, 1832-1866.

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Chiefly business papers, bills, and receipts re accounts with merchants, sales and hiring-out of slave laborers, and sale of real estate; also including 3 letters, 10 and 12 Dec. 1851 and Dec. 1851, re settlement negotiated by James Chesnut, Jr., Maxcy Gregg, W[illiam] M[eans] Bratton, and S[amuel] W[arren] Nelson to prevent a duel between H.K. Aiken and J[ames] N. Shedd. Receipt, 3 Dec. 1853, for twenty slaves identified by name and age, purchased for $8,350; 6 Nov. 1855, conveyance of plantation containing 392 acres, Mary A. Ellison, Abbeville District, S.C., to David Aiken, Fairfield District, S.C.; manuscript, 18 Nov. 1855, conveyance of above plantation to H.K. Aiken; and letter, 18 Feb. 1856, agreeing to pay medical bills for the hire of four slaves identified by name. Also including account ledger, 3 Jan. 1857, William Tyler re hiring slave carpenters "Henry and William"; receipt, 22 Feb. 1861, $2,975 paid for three identified slaves from David Wyatt Aiken; letter, 15 Oct. 1861, Josiah Gorgas, War Department, Richmond, Va., to H.K. Aiken, Charleston, S.C., granting authority to purchase ammunition for the infantry; 10 manuscripts, 1862, re problems caused by election of military officers.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Nelson, Samuel Warren, 1831-1890.

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Aiken, Hugh Kerr, 1822-1866

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Shedd, James A. (James Adams), 1804-1876

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James A. Shedd was born February 25, 1804, in Rindge, N.H., and died September 24, 1876, in Denmark, Iowa. He was admitted to the bar in Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1831. He later settled in Dayton, Ohio, where he practiced law and married Eunice Augusta Adams (1805-1846) in 1833, with whom he would have six children. Shedd was founding secretary of an antislavery society with 40 members organized in Dayton in March 1839. After the death of his first wife, he married Caroline Lavalette Brown (1816-1...

Ellison, Mary Ann

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Gregg, Maxcy, 1814-1862

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Lawyer and soldier of Columbia, S.C.; attended South Carolina College; admitted to the bar, 1839; served as an officer in U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and as Brigadier-General in Confederate States Army; delegate, 1860, from Richland District, S.C. at S.C. Secession convention; killed, Dec. 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg; son of James and Cornelia Maxcy Gregg. From the description of Maxcy Gregg papers, 1835-1888. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id...

Aiken, David Wyatt, 1828-1887

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Aiken, Hugh Kerr, 1822-1865.

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Planter of Fairfield County, S.C.; son of David and Nancy Kerr Aiken, both Irish Immigrants; brother of William Aiken (1806-1887), who served as S.C. governor, 1844-1846; president of South Carolina Railroad Company; and for whom city of Aiken, S.C. was named. From the description of Hugh Kerr Aiken papers, 1832-1866. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 40693086 ...

Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883

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General and Chief of Ordnance for the Confederate States Army; later, president of the University of Alabama. From the description of Extracts from my notes written chiefly soon after the close of the war, [ca. 1865]. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29452282 Born in Dauphin County, Pa., Josiah Gorgas graduated from West Point in 1841 and was assigned to the ordnance corps. He served in the Mexican-American War and was promoted to captain in 1855. In 1853, he mar...

Bratton, William Means, 1826-1862.

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