Papers of the Sosnowski and Schaller Families, 1828-1948.

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Papers of the Sosnowski and Schaller Families, 1828-1948.

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Chiefly Civil War and family correspondence and business papers including information on professional lives of Sophie Sosnowski and Frank Schaller; including manuscript, 1865, Madame Sophie Sosnowski, recording eye-witness account of W.T. Sherman's burning of Columbia, S.C.; diary, 1861-1862, kept by Frank Schaller re family and military activities; 2 letters, 27 July 1861 and 28 June 1877, Mississippi and Georgia, re roster of the 22nd Mississippi Infantry, commanded by Col. F[rank] Schaller. Letter, 3 Jan. 1863, Edgewood, S.C., Francis W. Pickens to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, re military leadership; letter, 22 Sept. 1853, Aiken, S.C., Julia DuPre to Madame [Sosnowski], re teaching at DuPre School, offering Caroline [Sosnowski] headmaster position at Aiken School, Aiken, S.C., and suggesting Madame might also be interested in headmaster position. Letter, 29 Jan. 1865, Richmond, Va., W[illiam] Porcher Miles, to Frank Schaller, suggesting establishment of historical society, and his translation of Marshal Marmont's "The spirit of military institutions;" letter, 6 Aug. 1866, Columbia, S.C., Peter J. Shand, to [Madame Sosnowski], Athens, Ga., re Shand's family, community relations, mailing her marriage certificate, and destruction of his parochial register. Letter, 10 Sept. 1866, Columbia, S.C., E[mily] T[imrod] Goodwin, to Sophie Schaller, declining teaching position offer; letter, 11 Nov. 1874, [Edisto Island], S.C., Julius [Sosnowski], to Madam, re cotton harvest and Reconstruction politics; undated letter, Ben[jamin] C[udworth] Yancey, to Col. [Frank Schaller], declining commissioner position, and publication and distribution of a pamphlet to the state legislature and planters convention at Milledgeville, S.C. Poetry volume, 1857, Frank Schaller, written in German; newspaper clipping, 19 July 1899, Athens, Ga., re death of Madame Sophie Sosnowski including a brief biography; inventory, 24 Sept. 1932, listing manuscripts, letters, and photographs; undated poem, "Two Portraits," written for Sophie [Sosnowski], by Henry Timrod.

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Shand, Peter J. (Peter Johnson), 1800-1886

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Sosnowski, Caroline.

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Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899

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William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) was a South Carolina educator, mayor of Charleston, S.C. (1855-1857), United States Representative (1857-1860), member of the Confederate House of Representatives and chair of its Military Affairs Committee. After the Civil War, he was a planter in Virginia, then president of South Carolina College, then a planter again, this time in Louisiana. Miles married Betty Bierne (d. 1874), the daughter of Oliver Bierne, a wealthy Virginia and Louisiana planter, in 1863....

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Schaller, Sophie

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Timrod, Henry, 1828-1867

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Poet, "poet laureate of the Confederacy" From the description of Papers: of Henry Timrod, 1867, n.d. [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809839 Author and poet, of Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; known as "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy;" part-owner and editor, Daily South Carolinian newspaper; contributor, Russell's Magazine; son, of William Henry Timrod (1792-1838) and Thyrza Prince Timrod; husband of Kate Goodwin; father of William Timrod (1864...

Sosnowski family.

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Madame Sophie Sosnowski served as teacher and/or headmaster at DuPre School (Charleston, S.C.), South Carolina Female Collegiate Institute (Barhamville and Columbia, S.C.), Lucy Cobb Institute (Athens, Ga.), and Home School (Athens, Ga.); Col. Frank Schaller commanded the Mississippi 22nd Infantry Regiment, in Confederate Army, and taught at Hillsborough Military Academy, Swansea, S.C. From the description of Papers of the Sosnowski and Schaller Families, 1828-1948. (University of So...

Sosnowski, Julius Christian, 1877-1942

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Schaller, Frank

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Yancey, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Cudworth), 1817-1891

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Planter, lawyer, journalist, legislator, diplomat, and Confederate Army officer, of Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1846-1882. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20272960 From the description of Papers, 1846-1882. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270897 Planter, lawyer, antebellum Alabama newspaper editor, Democratic state legislator in South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia; U.S. minister to Argentina; Confederate officer...