Book containing loose papers, 1776-1872, ca. 1872.

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Book containing loose papers, 1776-1872, ca. 1872.

Portion (pages 16-28) of a typewritten transcription of a memoir by Charles I. Manigault. He gives his observations about slaves, free persons of color, and the freedmen; describes the treatment of his slaves at Silk Hope Plantation and elsewhere before the Civil War; and writes of the looting and vandalism in Charleston, the Cooper River region, and elsewhere, by Federal soldiers and blacks during and after the war. Much of the narrative deals with his farm, Marshlands, located six miles from Charleston on the Cooper River, his attempts to recover stolen property, and the conduct of the freedmen. He criticizes the Federal officers, whose "principal characteristic...was that of theft," and in particular General Sickles "sent to lord it over South Carolina." He also mentions his cousin General Edward Manigault, his son Gabriel Manigault, his cousin Heyward Manigault (of Adams Run, S.C.), and the fate of some Manigault family portraits.

13 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8121712

South Carolina Historical Society

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Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914

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In 1819, Sickles was born in New York City to Susan Marsh Sickles and George Garrett Sickles, a patent lawyer and politician. (His year of birth is sometimes given as 1825, and Sickles was known to have claimed as such. Historians speculate that Sickles chose to appear younger when he married a woman half his age.) He learned the printer's trade and studied at the University of the City of New York (now New York University). He studied law in the office of Benjamin Butler, was admitted to the ba...

Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899

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Physican and graduate of the College of Charleston (Charleston, South Carolina) who studied medicine at the University of South Carolina and zoology in Paris. Gabriel Edward Manigault became curator of the College of Charleston Museum (Charleston, S.C.) in 1873. From the description of The black whale captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880, 1885. (College of Charleston). WorldCat record id: 31740999 Charleston, S.C. physician, plantation owner, professor, curator of the...

Manigault, Edward, 1817-1874

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Son of Joseph Manigault (1763-1843) of Charleston, S.C. He served in the Mexican War, and afterwards as a South Carolina state ordnance officer, and a railroad engineer. In 1863 he was appointed a major in the Confederate Army and given command of an artillery unit called the Siege Train. In Feb. 1865, Manigualt was in command of a small infantry force of 161 men who defended Grimball's Causeway (at or near James Island, S.C.) against a much larger Federal force. From the description...

Manigault, Charles Izard, 1795-1874

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South Carolina plantation owner and merchant. From the description of Letters, 1831-1848. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36866148 Charleston, S.C. plantation owner and merchant. In 1825 he married Elizabeth Heyward (1808-1877), daughter of Nathaniel Heyward (1766-1851). Charles Izard Manigault was the son of Gabriel Manigault (1758-1809) and Margaret Izard Manigault (1768-1824), and the grandson of Peter Manigault (1731-1773). From t...

Manigault family

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