John Thomas Gaston papers, 1849-1950.

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John Thomas Gaston papers, 1849-1950.

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Chiefly family correspondence; including 5 deeds, 1849-1874, for land in Edgefield County, S.C., eventually purchased by John Thomas Gaston; letter [incomplete], 1 Nov. 1853, Leesville, S.C., to Gen. James Jones, Chairman of Board of Visitors, applying for admission of Henry Gaston of Lexington District, S.C., to the State Military Academy as a beneficiary cadet and describing his physical and mental attributes. Letters, 5 Jan. 1859 and 22 Jan. 1860, Arsenal Hill Academy, Columbia, S.C., John Thomas Gaston, to his family, re his studies, school life, and local news; letters, 6 May 1863 and 29 Aug., Sept., and 25 Oct. 1864, Chisolmville and Green Pond, S.C., John Thomas Gaston, re battles, movements of Union troops, and charges against him for absence without leave. Letter, 26 July 1869, Barnwell District, S.C., H.D. Weathersbee to John Thomas Gaston and Sarah Ann Weathersbee Gaston, re weather and poor crops, difficult economic conditions, and election dispute among town officials; Reminiscences, c. 1910, memior of John Thomas Gaston's experiences during Civil War, including enlistment in Confederate Army, military life, and battles. Also including undated biographical sketch re John Thomas Gaston.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Arsenal Academy (Columbia, S.C.)

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Gaston, John Thomas, 1841-1911.

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Judge of Probate for Richland County, S.C., 1907-1911; merchant of Columbia, S.C.; member, S.C. House of Representatives, 1894-1896; commissioner for town of Aiken, S.C., and Probate Judge for Aiken County, S.C., 1884; Sheriff of Edgefield County, S.C., 1876, and Mayor of Edgefield, S.C.; served in Co. K, 2nd Regt., S.C. Cavalry, during the Civil War; attended Arsenal Academy, Columbia, S.C.; member of Ku Klux Klan; son of William Gaston and Elizabeth Sawyer Gaston; husband of Sarah Ann Weathers...

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