Confederate States of America
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Confederate Notes Carried by Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, 1865-04-10
Item — Box 5: [Barcode: 0000003979], Folder: 33a
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865...
Dates:
1865-04-10
Correspondence, 1861-02-01 - 1861-02-28
File — Box 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Folder four contains documents and letters from February 1861 as Confederate South Carolinians prepared for an attack on Fort Sumter. The folder includes a letter from General Arthur Manigault South Carolina’s Ordnance Bureau urging that supplies be sent to the forts in Charleston harbor. Also included are numerous military reports related to the pending attack on Fort Sumter, placement of military regiments, and construction of forts and batteries. Other interesting contents from this...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1861-02-01 - 1861-02-28
General History Related Ephemera, 1893 - 1935
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007677], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
This folder contains various printed ephemera relating to US history, US presidents, and a few farmers almanacs.
Dates:
1893 - 1935
Letters, No Date, fragments
File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Folder ten contains miscellaneous four undated items or fragments of papers. Included is a narrative description of a floating structure for the defense of Charleston Harbor, a resolution for filling vacancies in the South Carolina or Confederate provisional congress; a proclamation giving the governor power to commission officers of coastal military companies; a letter from Thomas J. Glover asking for the Edisto rifles to be part of the infantry; and a letter fragment concerning political...
Dates:
No Date, fragments
South Carolina military court cases, 1863 - 1864
File — Box 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Folder nine contains documents concerning the Confederate military court of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida in 1864 including a multipage fragment of a running list of military courts martial cases listing defendant’s names, charges, specific details of the charge, and witnesses. There are two letters by Jamison concerning court martial procedure. Also included are brief essays presumably in Jamison’s hand, titled “The Origins of Artillery”, “New trial”, and “The Military Courts of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1863 - 1864
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
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