Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
G. Ralph Smith letter
Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: Mss-0025
Scope and Contents
1 original letter August 24, 1864, and a typed copy of the letter from G. Ralph Smith, General Superintendent of State Works, Greenville, South Carolina, to Andrew P. Calhoun, Esq., Pendleton, S.C., needing "hands" for cutting wood near the railroad. He offered forty five dollars per month for "well-disposed and willing boys," some of whom might be kept as "tinkers" for blacksmiths or as labourers in the yard. He declined to furnish shoes for them because "they are hard to get and very high...
Dates:
August 24, 1864