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Civil War scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0186
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a scrapbook containing newspaper and magazine clippings, a certificate, and programs. Most of the clippings appear to be from Boston newspapers, but Southern publications such as the Atlanta Intelligencer, the Mobile Register, the New Orleans Christian Advocate, the Richmond Examiner, the Savannah...
Dates: 1861 - 1870; 1861 - 1862
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Elijah Webb Brown Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0131
Scope and Contents The papers include 14 letters from Elijah Webb Brown to his wife written during his service in the Confederate Army from 1861-1864 and one letter written in 1880. In addition, there are three other letters from family members and the United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate of Eula Brown Hart, which explains the participation of Elijah Webb Brown and other family members in the Civil War. Also included are fragments of rough draft of family history and a paper written by great...
Dates: 1856-1964; 1861 - 1864
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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

Furman Family Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0270
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of a January 25, 1895 letter from Furman, Jr. at Clemson College to "Aunt Dora" concerning school and family news; January 31, 1896 news, including firings of and salary reductions for professors at the College (which include his father, Charles Manning Furman, Professor of English). There is one photocopy of an envelope addressed to Ann E. Furman, Yamasse, South Carolina and postmarked November 8, 1894. In addition, there is a photocopy of a...
Dates: 1894-1896, circa 1925
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

G. Ralph Smith letter

 Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: Mss-0025
Scope and Contents 1 original letter August 24, 1864, and a typed copy of the letter from G. Ralph Smith, General Superintendent of State Works, Greenville, South Carolina, to Andrew P. Calhoun, Esq., Pendleton, S.C., needing "hands" for cutting wood near the railroad. He offered forty five dollars per month for "well-disposed and willing boys," some of whom might be kept as "tinkers" for blacksmiths or as labourers in the yard. He declined to furnish shoes for them because "they are hard to get and very high...
Dates: August 24, 1864
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Sarah de St. Julien Walker Goodwyn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0407
Abstract The collection can be used for research on courtship in the nineteenth century, the activities of the Sixth South Carolina Cavalry Regiment during 1864-early 1865, and for the siege of Petersburg, VA during the Civil War, particularly the battles of Boydton Plank Road, the Crater, Ream’s Station, and Trevilian Station.The Papers contain correspondence, financial notes, a summons, and a thesis with the bulk of the material documenting P. W. Goodwyn’s courtship of Sarah de St....
Dates: 1861, 1864-1865, 1867-1869, 1871, 1891, 1993 and undated
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Henry Simms Hartzog Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0078
Scope and Content Hartzog began creating this scrapbook in the 1940s. It contains Hartzog's memoirs and a variety of printed material documenting his career in education. Hartzog included material related to his family history and local history in Bamberg, South Carolina. There are copies of letters and recollections of events during the Civil War, particularly of the siege of Fort Sumter and Sherman's March. The memoirs include descriptions of some of his major contributions and of controversies in whic he...
Dates: 1866-1953
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

Manson S. Jolly Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0142
Scope and Contents The papers include photographic copies of eleven letters: one (1861) is a permission for Manson Jolly to travel from Sullivan's Island to the Anderson Court House; eight (1866-1868) were written to family members as he traveled to Texas and from Texas; two (1869) were from a cousin regarding Manson's death. There is also copy of a March 27, 1965, article from the Dallas Morning News with a story of Manson Jolly and a picture of his grave. A copy of a letter...
Dates: 1861-1965; 1866 - 1869
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Some of the events of my life, jotted down as they were reviewed by memory, and all of the badness left out

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0378
Dates: 1900
Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 7
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 6
Correspondence. 3
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns -- Virginia 2
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African Americans -- South Carolina. 1
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Boydton Plank Road, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
Brandy Station, Battle of, Brandy Station, Va., 1863 1
Calhoun Gold Mine (Ga.) 1
Chapman’s Fort, Battle of, S.C., 1864 1
Confederate States of America. 1
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Courtship -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Dairy farming -- South Carolina. 1
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Discharges. 1
Fort Hill Plantation (S.C.) 1
Franklin County (Ga.) -- History. 1
Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg, Va., 1862 1
Freedmen 1
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Georgia -- History. 1
Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. 1
Lee County (Miss.) -- History. 1
Livestock exhibitions -- South Carolina. 1
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Pendleton (S.C.) -- History. 1
Petersburg (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1864-1865 1
Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
Pickens County (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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Promissory notes. 1
Ream’s Station, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
Receipts. 1
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877). 1
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Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century. 1
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 1
Trevilian Station, Battle of, Va., 1864 1
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Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 1st 2
Ayer, Jr., Lewis M., 1821-1895 1
Baker, Elias, 1798-1864 1
Bleckley, Brown, and Fretwell 1
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Brown, Elijah Webb 1
Brown, Mary Frances Hubbard 1
Calhoun family 1
Calhoun, Andrew P. (Andrew Pickens), 1811-1865 1
Clemson University 1
Clemson family 1
Clemson, Anna Marie Calhoun, 1817-1875 1
Clemson, Thomas Green, 1807-1888 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, 6th 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 22nd 1
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Regiment of Rifles, 1st 1
Davis, Jeff, 1862-1913 1
Elrod, Agnes H. 1
Furman family. 1
Furman, Charles Manning, 1840-1934 1
Goodwyn, P. W. (Peterson Witten) (1830-1892) 1
Hart, Eula Brown 1
Hartzog, Henry S. (Henry Simms), 1866-1953 1
Hartzog, Louise 1
Harvard University 1
Holman, Harriet R. (Harriet Rebecca), 1912- 1
Holt, Berniece , 1926- 1
Jolly, Manson Sherrill 1
Kohn, David, 1880-1973 1
Lee, Gideon, -1894 1
Leupp, Charles M. 1
Lorton, Amanda Whitner Kilpatrick, 1812-1884 1
Lorton, Ella Frances, 1844-1921 1
Lorton, John S. , 1806-1862 1
Martin family 1
Martin, A.F. 1
Martin, Martha H. 1
Martin, Sarah Elizabeth Mills, 1821-1911 1
Martin, Silas Abraham Clayton, 1875-1939 1
Martin, William Waddell, 1829-1896 1
Megginson, W.J. (William James), 1943-2020 1
Mills family. 1
Mills, Daniel 1
Ouachita Baptist University 1
Pendleton Farmers’ Society 1
Reel, Jerome V. 1
Rion, James H. (James Henry), 1828-1886 1
Simpson, Maria Louise 1
Smith, G. Ralph 1
Sonderskov, Meredith Fuller 1
Stewart , Sara Susannah Martin 1
Stewart, D.C. (Daniel Carter) 1
Stribling, Jesse C., 1844-1927 1
Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918 1
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1
Watson, David 1
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