Wade Hampton Gibbes papers, 1862-1905.

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Wade Hampton Gibbes papers, 1862-1905.

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Chiefly bills, receipts, and business papers including Confederate States tax receipt, and Atlantic Steam Packet Company stock certificate. Manuscript, 10 Apr. 1865, Appomattox Court House, Appomattox Va., releasing Gibbes, a "paroled prisoner of the Army of Northern Virginia," to go home; map, 9 Nov. 1870, Columbia, S.C., drawn for a visitors guide; and letters of condolence on the 1887 death of Gibbes' wife, Jane Alan Mason Gibbes. Letter, 24 Nov. 1889, from Wade Hampton at Glen Allan [S.C.?] to Gibbes, re his position as postmaster at Columbia, S.C.; undated poem, Columbia, S.C., written by Gibbes "At the Surrender at Appomattox;" genealogical information, 1860; poem, [ca. 1893], "The Old Plantation Home," signed by W.H. Gibbes, Columbia, S.C., with notation "Written about winter of 1893" (three pages, typed); and biographical sketch, 1904, taken from United States Military Academy graduate yearbook.

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Atlantic Steam Packet Company

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Gibbes, Jane Alan Mason, d. 1887

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Gibbes, Wade Hampton, 1837-1903.

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Cadet, 1855-1860, of United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.; one of several participants who claimed to have been first to fire on Ft. Sumter, 12 April 1865; elected treasurer of Richland County, S.C., 1877; postmaster of Columbia, S.C., 1885-1890; husband of Jane Alan Mason Gibbes; brother of Alexander Mason Gibbes (1877-1921). From the description of Wade Hampton Gibbes papers, 1862-1905. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 40770639 ...

United States Military Academy

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West Point, N.Y., was originally utilized as a strategic defense location during the American Revolution. West Point is geographically located on a 100 ft. plateau overlooking the Hudson River. After the American victory Congress created a Corps of Invalids (veterans) that were transferred to West Point for the purpose of instructing candidates for commission. In 1802 Congress legally established the United States Military Academy at West Point. The Academy produced many leaders of American forc...