Records, 1846-1848.

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Records, 1846-1848.

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Volume acquired in Mexico, recording expenses and accounts for uniforms, food, and supplies between individual members of Company E of the Palmetto Regiment and Capt. J. Foster Marshall during Mexican War; expenditures recorded as drawn from the "Abbeville fund" or "private funds." Includes record of expenses for food and drink for Foster and various officers, noting change of personnel caused by illness, death and movement of troops; end of the volume [written 1848?] written in the hand of Marshall using a pencil, contains an index of members of Company E, a list of "Amount due Capt. Marshall from the Pal. Regt. and comp'y (E)," and a list of "servants" [African American slaves] identified by name, gender, and age. Also includes several pages written by an unidenitifed person in a second hand, consisting of writing exercises, an undated poem, "Ocean," names of Nancy Wardlaw of Abbeville, and Carrie W. Bacot, of Society hill, S.C., and brief list of expenses for a dance.

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United States. Army. South Carolina Regiment. Company E.

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Marshall, Jehu Foster, 1817-1862.

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Jehu (John) Foster Marshall was a lawyer and owner of plantations (Santuck and Long Cane) in Abbeville District, S.C., and Marion County, Florida; member of S.C. Senate, 1848-1861; Colonel, 1st Regiment Rifles, South Carolina Volunteers; Captain of Palmetto Regiment, Mexican War, 1846-1848; killed Aug. 1862, at Second Battle of Bull Run during Civil War; son of Samuel Marshall (1787-1861) and Eliza Clopton Foster Marshall; father of John Quitman (1849-1908), Samuel Fair Marshall, Jehu Foster Mar...

United States. Army. South Carolina Regiment. Co. E.

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A company serving as part of the Palmetto [South Carolina Infantry] Regiment serving in Mexican War, 1846-1848; Company E was also known as the McDuffie Guards; Capt. Jehu Foster Marshall raised troops for Company E from residents of Abbeville District, S.C., and later served as an S.C. Senator, 1848-1861, in the S.C. General Assembly. From the description of Records, 1846-1848. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42638544 ...