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Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0320
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a bound journal kept by Ella Lorton Lee from April 1, 1865 until December 31, 1892. It was written in what might have been a law student's journal (her brother's name appears on the cover page). The entries appear on pages 25 through 73, with pages 63 through 66 having been cut out. Lee discussed religious topics, her childhood visits to Florida, the end of the Civil War and what became of Pendleton and the surrounding area under "Yankee" occupation, and her social...
Dates:
1865 - 1932; 1865 - 1876
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
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Holmes, Alester G. (Alester Garden), 1876-1953
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Lee, Gideon, -1894
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Lorton, Amanda Whitner Kilpatrick, 1812-1884
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Lorton, Ella Frances, 1844-1921
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