Records of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of South Carolina, 1782-1996.

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Records of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of South Carolina, 1782-1996.

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Correspondence, financial records, minutes, miscellaneous items, printed material, reports, and resolutions. General correspondence (1782-1939; bulk 1866-1898) is arranged chronologically, as is a separate series of correspondence (1858-1904; bulk 1876-1898) pertaining to membership applications, and two volumes of letterpress copybooks (1886-1918) kept by D.E.H. Smith. The remainder of the correspondence is arranged topically and includes letters (1868-1869) concerning requests for financial assistance for a widow, Mrs. Gist; letters (1875-1876) regarding the membership eligibility of E.H. McCullough; and letters (1930s) concerning relics of the CSS Florida. The general correspondence includes letters of James Simons (1813-1879), president of the society, his son James Simons, Jr. (1839-1919), secretary and later president, Robert Quash Pinckney, and later secretaries. Of note is correspondence (1866) between James Simons, Sr., and Tench Tilghman of Maryland, the only representative of a Southern state at the 1866 general society meeting. Financial records (1783-1996) include bills, orders to pay, cash accounts, dues accounts, and general ledgers. There are a few rough minutes of meetings dated 1838-1841; more complete records of meetings are contained in minute books dating from 1862 to 1983. Miscellaneous items include papers (1826) relating to a court of honor; a commonplace book (1828-1834) of Maria W. Grayson (later Maria Ogier) containing two poems written to her by her grandfather Daniel Stevens (1746-1835), a Revolutionary War officer and South Carolina legislator; and papers (1874-1875) relating to Continental Army officers' claims. Printed material includes programs, speeches, memorials, by-laws, and publications of other state societies and the general society.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Ogier, Maria Willard Grayson, 1814-1887

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Pinckney, Robert Quash, 1802-1860

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Smith, D. E. Huger (Daniel Elliott Huger)

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Simons, James, 1813-1879

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Society of the Cincinnati in the State of South Carolina

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The Society of the Cincinnati is an American military, patriotic, beneficent and social organization formed in May 1783, in New York by commissioned officers of the Continental Army, with George Washington as its first president. The constituent society in South Carolina was organized that same year, and held its first meeting in Charleston in August 1783. Gen. William Moultrie was the first president of the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati. From the description of Records of...

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Simons, James, 1839-1919

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Charleston, South Carolina attorney, and son of General James Simons II (1813-1879). Simons became a lieutenant in the German Company (German Volunteers) of the Confederate States of America Army organized in Charleston, and in 1861 was attached to Hampton's Legion in Virginia. He was later promoted to captain. From the description of James Simons diary, 1861-1863. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139741 ...

Stevens, Daniel, 1746-1835

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The C.S.S. Florida was a Confederate steamer stationed near Mobile, Ala. From the guide to the Florida Log Book, ., 1862-1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Gist, Mrs.

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McCullough, E. H.

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