Correspondence, 1861-01-01 - 1861-01-31
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Folder three contains correspondence from January 1861. The primary correspondence is to and from Jamison and include military application letters and reports on surveys, maintenance, and activity taking place within the forts of Charleston harbor. Some of these letters contain Confederate plans for attacking Fort Sumter, two of which propose poisoning the water and attacking directly by fortified raft. A highlight is a letter from Senator Henry M. Rice of Minnesota to South Carolina senator James Chestnut on South Carolina’s secession and Rice’s opposition to war. Another curious letter included in this folder explores the unique story of a civilian Irish laborer, Patrick Quinn, who was employed and living within Fort Sumter before its bombardment and his brother Thomas who was a member of the South Carolina militia and seeking to have his brother leave the fort.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1861-01-01 - 1861-01-31
Creator
- From the Collection: Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864 (Correspondent, Person)
- From the Collection: Barnwell, Robert Woodward (Correspondent, Person)
Extent
From the Collection: 125 Item (1 Box, 10 folders)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Subject
- Burnett Rhett, Andrew, 1833-1879 (Person)
- Burnett, Burgh S. (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st. Irish Volunteers (Organization)
- Planter's Hotel (Organization)
- Citadel. the Military College of South Carolina (Organization)
- Georgia Military Institute (Marietta, Ga.) (Organization)
- Manget, Victor H., 1837-1919 (Person)
- State Rights and Free Trade Party (S.C.) (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston County (Organization)
- South Carolina--Morris Island (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston--Fort Sumter (Organization)
- Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863 (Person)
- South Carolina--Charleston--Castle Pinckney (Organization)
- Myers, Abraham C. (Abraham Charles Myers), 1811 - 1889 (Person)
- Branch, John Luther, 1825-1894 (Person)
- Mississippi--Jackson (Organization)
- Pickens, F.W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 (Person)
- National Hotel (Washington, D.C.) (Organization)
- Camden, John (Person)
- Spratt, L.W. (Leonidas William), 1818-1903 (Person)
- Morris Island Lighthouse (S.C.) (Organization)
- Vigilant Rifle Company (1860-1861) (Organization)
- Charleston (South Carolina) German Artillery (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd (Organization)
- Manigault, Edward, 1817-1874 (Person)
- Washington Light Infantry (Charleston, S.C.) (Organization)
- D. B. Vincent (Person)
- Simonton, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1904 (Person)
- Atlantic Ocean--Stono Inlet (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. South Carolina Artillery Regiment, 1st.. Lafayette Artillery Company (Organization)
- Mills, S. S. (Person)
- South Carolina--Charleston Harbor (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston (Organization)
- Georgia--Macon (Organization)
- Nullification (States' rights) (Organization)
- Branham, W. H. (Person)
- South Carolina--Fort Moultrie (Organization)
- South Carolina--Fort Johnson (Organization)
- South Carolina--James Island (Organization)
- Gwynn, Walter, 1802-1882 (Person)
- Simons, James, 1813-1879 (Person)
- Dunovant, R. G. M. (Richard Gill Mills), 1821-1898 (Person)
- Ripley, R. S. (Roswell Sabine), 1823-1887 (Person)
- Dozier, William Gaillard, 1833-1908 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th (Organization)
- Cunningham, John, 1805-1869 (Person)
- Carter, W. D. (Person)
- White Point Garden (Organization)
- Aldrich, N., Reverend (Person)
- King, Henry Campbell, 1819-1862 (Person)
- Pope, Joseph James, Jr., 1825-1870 (Person)
- Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864 (Person)
- Meyerhoff, B., Lieutenant (Person)
- South Carolina--Folly Island (Island) (Organization)
- White, E. B. (Edward Brickell), 1806-1882 (Person)
- McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897 (Person)
- South Carolina--Cummings Point (Organization)
- Trapier, James H., 1815-1865 (Person)
- Jamison, Sander Glover, 1830-1900 (Person)
- South Carolina Militia. Regiment, Thirty-third (Organization)
- Ferguson, Thomas B., 1841-1922 (Person)
- Ferguson, Thomas B., 1841-1922 (Person)
- Rose, James (Person)
- South Carolina--Sullivans Island (Organization)
- Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874 (Person)
- Washington (South Carolina) Artillery (Organization)
- Walter, George H. (Person)
- Alabama--Tuscaloosa (Organization)
- Orr, James Lawrence, 1822-1873 (Person)
- Parrott, R. P. (Robert Parker), 1804-1877 (Person)
- West Point Foundry Association (Organization)
- Gibbon, John, 1827-1896 (Person)
- Clay, C. C. (Clement Claiborne), 1816-1882 (Person)
- Lynah, Arthur M. (Person)
- Lesesne, Henry Deas, 1810-1886 (Person)
- Heyward, Nathaniel Barnwell, 1816-1891 (Person)
- Short, Emanuel (Person)
- Guard, A.C. (Person)
- Bryan, Edward B. (Person)
- Vanderhorst, Louis M., 1832-1864 (Person)
- Martin, William E. (Person)
- Screven, John H., 1823-1903 (Person)
- Capers, Francis W., 1819-1896 (Person)
- Fort Palmetto (Organization)
- Hamilton, James (Person)
- Farley, H. S. (Person)
- Yates, Joseph A. (Person)
- Gourdin, Robert N., 1812-1894 (Person)
- Macbeth, Charles, 1805-1881 (Person)
- Washington (D.C.) (Organization)
- Rice, Henry M. (Henry Mower), 1816-1894 (Person)
- Chesnut, James, 1815-1885 (Person)
- Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861 (Person)
- Quinn, Thomas, 1828-1903 (Person)
- Quinn, Patrick, 1822-1886 (Person)
- Brady, Edward W., Jr. (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Regiment of Rifles, 1st. Company G (Organization)
- Schooner Petrel (Organization)
- Lightship Rattlesnake Shoal (Organization)
- DeSaussure, Wilmot G. (Wilmot Gibbes), 1822-1886 (Person)
- Floating batteries (Organization)
Repository Details
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