C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

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C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

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Personal and business records of legal practice in Charleston, re politics, education, and Memminger's tenure as Sec. of Confederate Treasury; including 2 letters, 7 Mar. 1830 and 2 Dec. 1847, Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C., to Franklin Harper Elmore, re politics, railroad finances, and Elmore's joining a secessionist group in Walterboro, S.C.; letter, 16 June 1832, Charleston, S.C., to Gidion Higgins, East Haddam, Conn., re verdict in Higgins' legal case. Letter, 12 Nov. 1839, Charleston, to James M. Adams, Emory College, Covington, Ga., re membership in educational society; report, c. 1860, re public schools and teachers in Charleston; letter, 4 Apr. 1862, Richmond, Va., to Gen. William W. Harllee, Columbia, S.C., re defense of Georgetown and keeping slaves away from enemy; letter, 20 Jan. 1863, Confederate States Army Treasury Department, Richmond, Va., to Rev. James Petigru Boyce, Columbia, S.C., re issuing bonds to bolster Confederate treasury. Two letters, 20 Apr. 1863 and 12 Nov. 1863, Richmond, Va., to Robert Woodward Barnwell and George Frederick Holmes, re reaction to Confederate taxes and labor problems within Confederate Treasury; 4 letters, 23 Aug. 1876, 3 Sept. 1878, 6 Sept. 1880, and 17 Sept. 1881, Flat Rock, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., to Edward McCrady, re election campaign of 1876 and Protestant Episcopal Church; and volume, 1857, Charleston, S.C., by Marcus Lafayette Byrn, "The repository of wit and humor ..." Also including microfilm (R-240), of papers, 1803-1915, held at UNC with guide, 1966, to film, including letters, 1803-1812, from members of Memminger family in Germany; and letters, 1854, to his wife, Mary Wilkinson Memminger, from Europe; topics include secession; Confederate Treasury; papers of Thomas B. Memminger, Confederate surgeon; Reconstruction; and account book, 1838-1855, of expenses at summer home at Flat Rock, N.C.; and personal letters of Tracy family of Macon, Ga.

34 items and 1 volume.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7553907

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Memminger, Thomas

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Adams, James H. (James Hopkins), 1812-1861

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Holmes, George Frederick, 1820-1897

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Episcopal Church

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McCrady, Edward, 1833-1903

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Charleston, South Carolina attorney, civic leader, and vestryman of St. Philips (Episcopal) Church. Born in 1802, McCrady was raised under the care of his grandfather William Johnson and was sent to Yale College at the age of fifteen, graduating in 1820. McCrady served as the U.S. District Attorney in South Carolina from 1839 to 1850, and as a state legislator. In 1829 he married Louisa Rebecca Lane. Edward McCrady died in 1892. From the description of Edward McCrady legal journal, 1...

Elmore, F. H. (Franklin Harper), 1799-1850

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Lawyer, banker, and U.S. representative from South Carolina. From the description of Papers of F. H. Elmore, 1795-1858 (bulk 1839-1850). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450664 F. H. Elmore, of Walterboro, Columbia, and Charleston, S.C., was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1836-1839; president of the State Bank of South Carolina, 1839-1850; and U.S. Senator, appointed to succeed John C. Calhoun, from 11 April 1850 until his death on 29 May 1850. He married Har...

Harllee, W. W. (William Wallace), 1812-1897

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Boyce, James Petigru, 1827-1888

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Boyce was Chairman of the faculty,1859-1888. In 1888 became President of the Seminary. See Robertson, Life and letters of John A. Broadus, pp. 305, 307. From the description of [Letter] 1876 July 11th, Louisville, Ky. to "Bro. [John A.] Broadus / James P. Boyce. 1876. (SBTS Library). WorldCat record id: 48430416 Boyce entered Princeton in 1849, but left in May 1851, before commencement, and without a diploma. From the description of [Lecture notes] / James P. Boy...

Higgins, Gidion

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Confederate States of America. Treasury Department

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Barnwell, Robert Woodward, 1801-1882

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U.S. senator, U.S. representative, C.S.A. senator, from South Carolina, and educator. From the description of Robert Woodward Barnwell correspondence, 1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450147 American politician, US Congressman from S.C., 1829-1833, US Senator, 1850-1851, Confederate Congressman 1862-1866. From the guide to the Robert Woodward Barnwell paycheck and autograph, 1832, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) La...

Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888

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South Carolina legislator and Confederate Secretary of the Treasury; from Charleston, S.C. From the description of Papers, 1861-1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20030153 Lawyer and politician of Charleston, S.C.; member of: S.C. House, 1836-1852, 1855-1860, 1877; Secession convention, 1861; Board of Free School Commissioners of Charleston; drafter of Confederate constitution; Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-1864; President of the Etiwan Phospa...