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 folder include an application letter for South Carolina Confederate service from Columbus daVega, a Crimean war veteran; two letters pertaining to an enslaved man, Arthur or Thomas Lynch [also see folders three and five]; a letter from Laurence Keitt to David Flavel Jamison announcing the formation of the Confederate government.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1861-02-01 - 1861-02-28
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
- South Carolina--Charleston (Organization)
- Pickens, F.W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 (Person)
- White, E. B. (Edward Brickell), 1806-1882 (Person)
- Floating batteries (Organization)
- Davega, Columbus, 1830-1882 (Person)
- Siege of Sevastopol' (Sevastopol', Ukraine : 1854-1855) (Organization)
- de Treville, Richard, Sr., 1801-1874 (Person)
- South Carolina. Militia (Organization)
- South Carolina. General Assembley (Organization)
- Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876 (Person)
- Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 (Person)
- Hardee, William Joseph, 1815-1873 (Person)
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. War Department (Organization)
- Confederate States of America (Organization)
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864 (Person)
- Alabama--Montgomery (Organization)
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 10th (Organization)
- South Carolina--Georgetown (Organization)
- South Carolina--Fort Moultrie (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd (Organization)
- Henning, Norman Phillip (Person)
- South Carolina--Santee River (Organization)
- South Carolina--Murrells Inlet Region (Organization)
- Daggett, Thomas West, Captain, 1828-1893 (Person)
- Waccamaw Light Artillery (Organization)
- South Carolina--Little River (Organization)
- Litchfield, John L., Captain (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 7th (Organization)
- South Carolina Militia. Regiment, Thirty-third (Organization)
- Austin, Charles (Person)
- South Carolina--Morris Island (Organization)
- South Carolina--Sullivans Island (Organization)
- South Carolina--Mars Bluff (Organization)
- South Carolina--Florence (Organization)
- South Carolina--Richmond (Organization)
- North Carolina--Wilmington (Organization)
- Harllee, W. W. (William Wallace), 1812-1897 (Person)
- Gwynn, Walter, 1802-1882 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Ordnance Bureau (Organization)
- Parrott gun (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston Harbor (Organization)
- Manigault, Gabriel E. (Gabriel Edward), 1833-1899 (Person)
- Lynch, Arthur M. (Person)
- Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 1827-1892 (Person)
- Washington Fire Company (Organization)
- German Rifle Company (Organization)
- Lafar, John J., 1797-1873 (Person)
- South Carolina--Fort Johnson (Organization)
- Martin, Robert (Person)
- Hagood, Johnson, 1829-1898 (Person)
- Lee, Francis D., 1826-1885 (Person)
- South Carolina--Charleston--Castle Pinckney (Organization)
- South Carolina--Cummings Point (Organization)
- Virginia--Richmond (Organization)
- Tredegar Iron Works (Richmond, Va) (Organization)
- White Point Garden (Organization)
- Citadel. the Military College of South Carolina (Organization)
- J. M. Eason & Brother (Organization)
- Atlantic Ocean--Winyah Bay (Organization)
- Glaze, William, 1815-1883 (Person)
- Palmetto Armory (Organization)
- Henerey, William S. (Person)
- South Carolina--Beaufort (Organization)
- Cameron, Archibald, 1813-1881 (Person)
- Lufburrow and Timmons co. (Organization)
- R&J Lacklison (Organization)
- A. N. Miller (Organization)
- Linville & Smedley (Organization)
- Watervilet Arsenal (Organization)
- U. S. Arsenal (Organization)
- South Carolina--State Arsenal (Organization)
- South Carolina Coast Police (Organization)
- Arsenal Academy (Columbia, S.C.) (Organization)
- Virginia--Petersburg (Organization)
- Louisiana--New Orleans (Organization)
- Coles Island (Organization)
- Florida--Pensacola (Organization)
- Hazard Powder Company (Organization)
- Charleston Arsenal (Organization)
- Schooner Stowell Cobb (Organization)
- Schooner Helene (Organization)
- Schooner Petrel (Organization)
- Schooner William Aiken (Organization)
- General Clinch (Ship) (Organization)
- Steam Tug Aid (Organization)
- Catawba (ship) (Organization)
- Lynch, Thomas M. (Person)
Repository Details
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