LeRoy Franklin Youmans papers, 1857-1965.

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LeRoy Franklin Youmans papers, 1857-1965.

Consisting of Civil War correspondence and scrapbooks; including letter, 4 Jan. 1865, Buckhead Causeway, [S.C.?], to Mary Youmans, re troop movements and Sherman's army; and letter, 11 Mar. 1865, Columbia, S.C., to Mary Youmans, re troop movements, prospects, appearance of Columbia, Sherman's remarks, and disciple of soldiers in Sherman's army. Scrapbook, 1857-1965, re Youmans and his family, including newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other printed materials and manuscripts including recommendation, c. 1882, Hugh S. Thompson on behalf of E. Rhett Youmans for a teaching position; letter, 25 July 1884, Fanny Gordon, re a speech by Youmans; commission, 24 Oct. 1903, appointing LeRoy Youmans as a special judge for Clarendon County, S.C. Also including 3 scrapbooks, 1873-1932, re people and politics in S.C.; including 2 scrapbooks, 1876-1885 and 1884-1886, containing newspaper clippings re S.C. politics. Including scrapbook, 1873-1932, compiled by LeRoy Youmans and his son Pringle Tillinghast Youmans, containing newspaper clippings re their careers and other subjects, including sections on Wade Hampton, William Henry Trescot, and Woodrow Wilson including letter, 26 Mar. 1888, J. Athens Johnson, Washington, D.C., to L. Youmans, re his speech before literary societies at Erskine College; letter, 22 July 1893, Harry Hammond, Beech Island, S.C., to LeRoy Youmans, enclosing photograph and autograph of James Henry Hammond.

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Gordon, Fanny (1904-1991).

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