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....

Abstract The John D. Twiggs Papers are a resource for researching military life in the Civil War era and the activities of the 1st South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, particularly the Battles of Fredericksburg (1862), Second Brandy Station (1863), Culpeper Court House (1863), and Chapman’s Fort (1864), as well as the fighting that took place during the Bristoe campaign in Virginia in October-November 1863.The collection consists of an account, correspondence, a color photograph, a printed...