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Ella Lorton Lee Journal

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

William Waddell and Sarah Elizabeth Mills Martin Family Papers

Collection — Container: Box 1-2

Identifier: Mss-0248

Scope and Contents The collection consists of originals and copies of accounts, correspondence, deeds, a discharge, envelopes, Martin family genealogies, legal documents, lists, mortgages, notes, plats, promissory notes, receipts, land titles, transcripts, and other material relating to the activities of the Martin family for the period 1852-1925. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between members of the Martin family -- particularly between William and his wife, Sarah -- and with others...

Dates: 1852-1925, undated

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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Ella Lorton Lee Journal

Floride Clemson Diary

Jesse C. Stribling Papers

Payne and Gambrell Family Papers

John E. Perry Parole

Quattlebaum Family Papers

Recollections of Anderson, South Carolina in 1865

William Waddell and Sarah Elizabeth Mills Martin Family Papers

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