United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0186
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, a certificate, and programs. Most of the clippings appear to be from Boston newspapers, but Southern publications such as the Atlanta Intelligencer, the Mobile Register, the New Orleans Christian Advocate, the Richmond Examiner, the Savannah...
Dates:
1861 - 1870; 1861 - 1862
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
Henry Simms Hartzog Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0078
Scope and Content
Hartzog began creating this scrapbook in the 1940s. It contains Hartzog's memoirs and a variety of printed material documenting his career in education. Hartzog included material related to his family history and local history in Bamberg, South Carolina. There are copies of letters and recollections of events during the Civil War, particularly of the siege of Fort Sumter and Sherman's March. The memoirs include descriptions of some of his major contributions and of controversies in whic he...
Dates:
1866-1953
Jesse C. Stribling Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0201
Scope and Contents
The papers contain clippings, correspondence, enlistment papers, lists, a small notebook and a statement. The clippings relate to cotton and dairy farming, livestock shows and farmers' organizations, including the Pendleton Farmer's Society, for the period 1889-1890. The correspondence concerns the sale of cattle in 1882, the suggested organization of an "Agricultural Society" in upstate South Carolina in 1890 and the return of a Negro who "belongs" to Stribling from the Edgefield, SC, jail....
Dates:
1862-1865, 1882, 1889-1890, 1906, circa 1925, 1979, undated
Manson S. Jolly Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0142
Scope and Contents
The papers include photographic copies of eleven letters: one (1861) is a permission for Manson Jolly to travel from Sullivan's Island to the Anderson Court House; eight (1866-1868) were written to family members as he traveled to Texas and from Texas; two (1869) were from a cousin regarding Manson's death. There is also copy of a March 27, 1965, article from the Dallas Morning News with a story of Manson Jolly and a picture of his grave. A copy of a letter...
Dates:
1861-1965; 1866 - 1869
Some of the events of my life, jotted down as they were reviewed by memory, and all of the badness left out
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0378
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0394
Abstract
A collection of biographical narratives of Confederate officials and military leaders and newspaper clippings from the John C. Calhoun Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Clemson, SC.
Dates:
1928 - 1985