Records, 1861 Oct. 22-1862 July 9.

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Records, 1861 Oct. 22-1862 July 9.

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Five items documenting the "Irish Volunteers" of Charleston, S.C., or Company K of 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Greggs). Signed orders, 22 Oct. 1861, Camp Huger, certified copy of orders of Sergeant [T.F.] O'Donnell; petition, 10 Nov. 1861, listing 78 members of the Irish Volunteers requesting that Col. Maxcy Gregg reinstate Lt. Ryan whose "faults if any he had was in being an Irishman" [typescript copy]; "Address to the Irishmen of Charleston," [27?] Dec. 1861, written from "Camp Huger near Suffolk, Va.," urging fellow countrymen to reject the protection of the British government as a ploy to avoid Confederate military service and comparing the Southern cause to that of Ireland. Handwritten essay dated 9 July 1862, written for the Charleston Daily Courier describing battle experiences of the Irish Volunteers at Chickahominy, Va., as related by Sergeant O'Donnell in a letter to his brother, re the Seven Days' Battles that ended the Peninsula Campaign. Formerly filed as "South Carolina Volunteers, First Regiment."

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Gregg, Maxcy, 1814-1862

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Lawyer and soldier of Columbia, S.C.; attended South Carolina College; admitted to the bar, 1839; served as an officer in U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War and as Brigadier-General in Confederate States Army; delegate, 1860, from Richland District, S.C. at S.C. Secession convention; killed, Dec. 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg; son of James and Cornelia Maxcy Gregg. From the description of Maxcy Gregg papers, 1835-1888. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id...