James H. Tomb correspondence with Thomas P. Stoney, 1926-1928.

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James H. Tomb correspondence with Thomas P. Stoney, 1926-1928.

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Correspondence consists of three typescript carbon copies and one original manuscript letter (14 Oct. 1928) of James H. Tomb, a Confederate engineer, to Thomas P. Stoney, an attorney and politician in Berkeley County and mayor of Charleston, S.C. In the first letter, dated 15 Mar. 1926, Tomb writes about his service in 1865 as commander of the "David," a Confederate torpedo boat. He describes an attack on the USS Memphis "lying in North Edisto," and commends his friend Capt. Theodore Stoney (the brother of Mayor Stoney's grandfather). Tomb's letter of 1928 mainly concerns a monument in West Evergreen Cemetery (Jacksonville, Fla.), which he erected "in memory of my shipmates of the Confederate Torpedo Boat David, Charleston, S.C., 1863."

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Confederate engineer. From the description of James H. Tomb correspondence with Thomas P. Stoney, 1926-1928. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 71058691 ...

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