Dispatches from South Carolina for The New York Daily Tribune, 1863 July 31-1865 June 14.

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Dispatches from South Carolina for The New York Daily Tribune, 1863 July 31-1865 June 14.

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Newspaper clippings from The New York Daily Tribune, 31 July, 1863 and Mar. to June, 1865. Reporting war news and reprinting some features from Charleston newspapers; news of life in Charleston after the war includes the opening of schools, the first decoration day, honoring Union prisoners of war who had died and were buried at the race course, and activities of the "loyalists," the term used to refer to African American freedmen. Notable headlines include: "The siege of Fort Wagner; our batteries 600 yards nearer Sumter; the army confident of success; exchange of prisoners; shocking barbarity of rebel surgeons; the colored prisoners enslaved; arrival of the Cosmopolitan; list of killed and wounded; conversations with the wounded," 31 July, 1863. "Honors to a negro regiment in Charleston [soldiers of the 21st U.S. colored troops]; progress of reconstruction in Charleston, raid on Fredericksburg-capture of $380,000 worth of tobacco and 400 prisoners," 11 Mar., 1865. "Opening of the schools [Free school with between 300 and 400 white children and approximately 1,000 African American children enrolled on the first day. "Children attend the same school building...although it is true, also, that no attempt to unite them in the same rooms or classes would have been tolerated at this time."]," 18 Mar., 1865. "Monument to the martyrs of the race-course; an orphan-house to be established; life among the loyalists; torpedoes and guerillas," 29 Mar., 1865. "Grand procession of colored loyalists; ovation to Gen. Rufus Saxton; honors to Northern men; a colored marriage [account of a marriage between two recently freed African Americans]," 4 Apr., 1865. "South Carolina-Reconstruction" 14 June, 1865, published letter by Augustin L. Taveau to William Aiken, former S.C. governor, in which, Taveau, a South Carolina native and Confederate veteran, wrote one of his many letters condemning Confederate leaders.

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