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South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Floride Clemson Diary

 Item — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0111
Scope and Contents Diary entries are sporadic. In the preface to A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866, editors Charles M. McGee, Jr. and Ernest M. Lander, Jr. note that "the diary contains three sustained narratives: Floride's trip to Niagara in the summer of 1863; the journey from Beltsville, Maryland, to Pendleton, South Carolina, that she and her mother made in the last days of 1864; and the final illness of Floride's grandmother, Mrs....
Dates: 1863 - 1866

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

Payne and Gambrell Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0327
Scope and Contents The papers contain records of both the Payne and Gambrell families. The first folder contains a ledger book or journal of Fannie Elizabeth Gambrell showing various examples of business terms, titles, abbreviations, punctuation, business forms, sample figures; and student grades from 1865 to 1867. Also included are several loose sheets with student names and accounts or marks. The papers also contain a letter dated 1863 from a physician asking that John W. Payne (brother of James P. Payne,...
Dates: 1857 - 1947; 1861 - 1908

John E. Perry Parole

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: Mss-0269
Scope and Contents

This collection contains one envelope and one parole document dated April 10, 1865, Appomattox Court House, Virginia for Private J.E. Perry of Company B, First South Carolina Volunteer Regiment and signed by the commanding officer A.P. Butler, Lieutenant Colonel.

Dates: 1865

Quattlebaum Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0076
Abstract The Quattlebaums were German Protestant pioneers who helped settle the "Dutch Fork" area of South Carolina (present Lexington and Newberry Counties) in the 1760's. The family has provided South Carolina with political leaders, engineers, soldiers, teachers, farmers, and executives for more than 200 years. Four generations of the Quattlebaum family are represented in this collection.The Quattlebaum Papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, and research relating to...
Dates: 1817 - 2003; 1936 - 2001

Recollections of Anderson, South Carolina in 1865

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Mss-0335
Scope and Contents The collection contains one folder containing a three page letter from Alice B[urriss] O'Neal to her cousin. It is undated but describes events that happened on May 1, 1865, when as a school girl she witnessed the "Yankees" coming to Anderson and confronting her Uncle Thomas and Cousin John Burriss, both Confederate veterans. There is also a two page narrative of recollections of May 1st from Lula W. Allen in which she recalled school closing early and that horses were confiscated from both...
Dates: undated