Pierce Mason Butler papers, 1819-1883.

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Pierce Mason Butler papers, 1819-1883.

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Chiefly papers re Pierce Mason Butler's career as soldier, banker, planter, Indian Agent, and Governor of S.C., including family correspondence; including will, 2 Nov. 1818, Edgefield District, S.C., of William Moore, with Pierce Mason Butler as legatee; Army commission, 1 Sept. 1822; letter, 11 Jan. 1833, Columbia, S.C., Pierce M. Butler, to Robert Y. Hayne, Charleston, S.C., re recruiting soldiers, preparations for military service, and gathering and storing supplies. Letter, 7 Jan. 1835, Columbia, S.C., Pierce M. Butler, to William Campbell Preston, re resignation of postmastership and offering several possible replacements; commission as Colonel of the Palmetto Regiment, 29 June 1846; affidavit, c. 1845, re property owned and indebtedness, including character appraisal of slaves; list and description, 1 July 1846, of African-American slaves; printed orders, 22 and 23 Nov. 1846, assembling S.C. troops to serve in the Mexican War. Also including memoirs, c. 1890s, by Isaac Harding Duval, re activities on Pierce M. Butler's staff during Butler's service as Indian Commissioner in 1846; correspondence, 9 Sept. 1973-31 Mar. 1974, between Pierce Butler and James C. Gardner of Shreveport, La., re Butler family's plantation.

1375 items and 8 v.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7533479

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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