Special Collections and Archives

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...