South Carolina. Constitutional Convention
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1861-03-01 - 1861-03-31
File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Folder five contains documents and correspondence from March 1861. Included is another letter concerning an enslaved man, Arthur or Thomas Lynch [see folders three and four]; a detailed letter to South Carolina’s governor Francis Pickens from Lucius Quinton Washington, a distant relative of George Washington, from Washington DC on the national political situation in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural speech and including strategy and intelligence on Fort Sumter and Pensacola...
Dates:
1861-03-01 - 1861-03-31
Correspondence, 1861-04-02 - 1861-12
File — Box 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Folder six contains documents and correspondence from April to December of 1861. Included in this folder are reports of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States after the attack on Fort Sumter assessing the fort’s damage and detailing the evacuation of the United States soldiers stationed there during the siege. Other important documents include a contract for enlisted members of a South Carolina militia company of German immigrants; David F. Jamison’s letter of resignation as South...
Dates:
1861-04-02 - 1861-12
South Carolina state ordinances and related correspondence, 1862-01-06 - 1862-12-27
File — Box 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Folder seven contains David F. Jamison’s personal copies of government ordinances enacted during his time as Confederate provost marshal and letters from Jamison’s tenure as head of South Carolina’s secession convention.
Dates:
1862-01-06 - 1862-12-27