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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- South Carolina.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Anderson County, South Carolina Ballot

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: Mss-0016
Scope and Contents

Ballot for South Carolina state and county offices and presidential electors, 1876.

Dates: 1876 - 1876

O. M. Doyle letter

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: Mss-0006
Scope and Contents

Typed copy and carbon copy of letter from O.M. Doyle, Columbia, South Carolina, to Captain [William W.?] Hollingsworth, Pickens County, South Carolina, regarding a state appropriations bill and discussing the financial condition of South Carolina in March, 1869.

Dates: March 16, 1869

Orderly Sergeant's Book [of the Pendleton] "Red Shirts"

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: Mss-0008
Scope and Contents

Original book and carbon typescript, consisting of the roll of the Redshirts on February 2, 1878 (74 names) and on August 28, 1880 (51 names); minutes of meetings held at Farmers Hall and Maxwell Hall in Pendleton listing elections, officers and resolutions; and correspondence (listed in the minutes) with the Adjutant and Inspector General E.W. Moise regarding their status as a state group or as an independent and private club which would offer its services to the state if needed.

Dates: February 2, 1878 - August 28, 1880; 1878 - 1878

Voting Tickets

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0036
Scope and Contents

Voting tickets from 1872 and 1876. There is a fake Union Republic ticket for 1876 which lists the Democratic candidates. Two Republican tickets for South Carolina, headed by Franklin J. Moses, Jr., candidate for Governor, 1872-1874; also Union Republican tickets, headed by Rutherford B. Hayes for President. Samuel J. Tilden was the Democratic candidate for President; the fake Union Republican ticket shows Tilden for President.

Dates: 1872-1876

Washington Augustus Clark Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0194
Scope and Contents The papers consist of daybooks, miscellaneous papers and scrapbooks, including an oversize scrapbook. Among the daybooks is one that contains "Collections on account of Melton and Clark from 1871-1875," but most of the daybooks contain information pertaining to cattle breeding for the period 1879-1910. The miscellaneous papers contain notes for a talk to be given November 6, 1928, to the South Carolina Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the unveiling of a tablet...
Dates: 1871 - 1931