Wardlaw family papers, 1843-1983.

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Wardlaw family papers, 1843-1983.

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Antebellum papers include Andrew Bowie Wardlaw's college papers that include essays [ca. 1850] on the Spanish conquest of South America, General Francis Marion, and the French Revolution, and letters of recommendation, 1852, from professors C[harles] P[earce] Pelham, Robert Henry, Mat[thew] J. Williams, Francis Lieber, and J[ames] H[enly] Thorwell written upon his graduation in 1852. Civil War letters, 1862-1865, from Andrew to his wife addressed from Tomotley, S.C., and camps in Virginia near Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg [West Virginia], and Richmond, Bunker Hill, Orange, Winchester, Fredericksburg, and Petersburg, Va.; Reconstruction-era labor contract, Jan. 1866, drawn up between Andrew Bowie Wardlaw and his uncle David Lewis Wardlaw (1799-1873) and African American men and women identified by name at D.L. Wardlaw's plantation near Abbeville, S.C. Letter, 30 Dec. 1902, from John J. McMahan (1865-1936), S.C. State Superintendent of Education, praising Patterson Wardlaw's skill as "teacher of pedagogical psychology"; letter, 26 Apr. 1907 from James Rion McKissick at Harvard Law School stressing the need for remembrance of "great men who have been connected with ... [USC]"; also includes genealogical information (obituaries and 20th century family letters). Volumes include brief Civil War diary 1863-1865, of A.B. Wardlaw; family record of Robert Wardlaw Henry; memoirs of Robert Henry Wardlaw, 1885; and private memoranda of James T. Wardlaw (b.1881), 1881-1912; photographs: carte de visite album with portraits of Gov. Francis Wilkinson Pickens in St. Petersburg, Russia (1860) and various members of the Bowie, Mabry, Livingston, Wardlaw, and White families; 7 individual portraits including Eliza Bowie Wardlaw, Robert Henry Wardlaw, and Patterson Wardlaw.

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University of South Carolina

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Bowie family.

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Mabry family.

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Livingston family.

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Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869

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Pickens was a congressman from South Carolina and later governor of that state. From the description of Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612796541 From the guide to the Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Congressman and governor of South Carolina. From the description of...

Wardell family.

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Wardlaw, Andrew Bowie, 1831-1888

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Wardlaw, Patterson, 1859-1948

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White family.

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Wardlaw family.

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Residents of Kershaw County and Abbeville, S.C.; Andrew Bowie Wardlaw (1831-1888), was a planter of Liberty Hill, and son of Robert Henry Wardlaw (1807-1887) of Abbeville and Eliza Bowie Wardlaw (1808-1883) of Charleston, S.C.; he graduated, 1852, from S.C. College; in 1858, Wardlaw married Sarah Elizabeth Thompson (1837-1885) of Liberty Hill; he served as commissary officer in 14th Regiment of S.C. Volunteers with eventual rank of Major. This Regiment was combined with the 12th and 13th SC Volu...

Wardlaw, Adrew Bowie, 1831-1888

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McKissick, J. Rion (James Rion), 1884-1944

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