Special Collections and Archives

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....

Introduction This collection consists mainly of material created and assembled by Professors Alester Garden Holmes and George Raymond Sherrill while they were writing Thomas Green Clemson: His Life and Work. It includes research notes, copies of correspondence related to Clemson and manuscript versions of the book. Holmes' correspondence documents various aspects of his career as a teacher at Clemson College and a historian in South Carolina. There is also material...