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...

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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.