Correspondence, 1856-1909.

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Correspondence, 1856-1909.

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Correspondence of the 1850s includes letters from Grimball on board the U.S.S. Macedonian at foreign ports including Leghorn, Italy and Alexandria, Egypt to his family members describing shore leave in Marseilles, France, and elsewhere and a fancy ball given by the "Pacha" of Egypt; and letters to Grimball from W.A. Kerr, a friend serving on the U.S.S. Roanoke. Civil War correspondence consists of letters between Grimball and his family and friends during his service on the Confederate ships Shenandoah, Lady Davis, Fingal, Arkansas, and Baltic. Correspondents include his father and mother, sister Elizabeth (Munro), George Strong Storrs (Alabama), and George W. Gift (C.S.S. Chattahoochee). His parents' letters from Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., (a wartime refuge for the Grimballs) relate news of the war and family members. Grimball's correspondence with his family contains descriptions of his daily life and includes letters concerning reports of U.S. troops landing at Beaufort, S.C. (1861 June 13); his difficulty finding the C.S.S. Arkansas, which had sailed up the Yazoo River (Miss.) for safety (1862 May 2); and conditions in Vicksburg (1862 May 8). Early post-war correspondence includes a letter (1865 Nov. 26) from John at Caen, France, to his mother regarding his future plans and the possiblity of sheep ranching near Buenos Aires; and letters (1866) to John in Liverpool, England, and Cordova, Mexico, from his father. Later correspondence mainly consists of letters to John in Charleston, S.C., and New York City from his brother Berkley in Charleston regarding family, estate, and business matters; and John Grimball's legal and business correspondence, including a letter (1870 Oct. 8) to him from D.M. Scales in Memphis, Tenn., and many letters (1878-1906) to Grimball and Richard B. Tunstall from Lewis and Carrie (Ostenheim) Morris (New York residents living in Europe) regarding Morris financial affairs.

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Scales, D. M. (Dabney Minor), 1841-1920

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Grimball, John, 1840-1922

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John Grimball was a Confederate naval officer and attorney. He was the son of John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892) and Margaret ("Meta") Ann Morris Grimball. He accepted his commission in the U.S. Navy in 1854 and joined the Confederate Navy in 1861. In 1864 he served as an officer on the Confederate commerce raider CSS Shenandoah. After the war he lived in Mexico for a time and then moved to New York to practice law. In 1884 Grimball moved back to Charleston and for a few years engaged in rice pla...