Papers, 1879-1915.

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Papers, 1879-1915.

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Mitchell's memoirs describing his early schooling in Charleston, S.C.; life as a student at the lyceum and university in Heidelberg and the University of Berlin; duels in which he engaged while he lived in Germany; a trip to Saint Petersburg while Francis W. Pickens of S.C. was U.S. minister to Russia; running the Union blockade on his return trip to America after the beginning of the Civil War; service in the 1st S.C Regiment; guard duty at a house in or near Greensboro, N.C., where Jefferson Davis and his staff lodged, 1865; and Whaley's life after the war as a cotton and rice planter. The collection also includes obituaries of Whaley and his father, William Whaley, that appeared in the Charleston NEWS AND COURIER.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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