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 harbor (FL); a letter from Ellison Capers to D. F. Jamison on military arms; and Jamison’s report from South Carolina’s war department to Governor Pickens.
Dates
- 1861-03-01 - 1861-03-31
Extent
From the Collection: 125 Item (1 Box, 10 folders)
Language of Materials
English
- "House Divided" speech
- 1st Regiment, South Carolina Artillery. Lafayette Artillery Company
- 5th Regiment South Carolina Militia
- Alston, Thomas Pinckney, 1795-1861
- American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865)
- Anderson, Robert, Major, 1805 - 1871
- Arthur, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), Sr., 1826-1870
- Atlantic Ocean--Stono Inlet
- Barbot, Anthony, 1834-1882
- Battery Island
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893
- Brooks Guard
- Brooks, John Hampden, Captain, 1833-1911
- Capers, Ellison, 1837-1908
- Charleston Floating Battery
- Citadel. the Military College of South Carolina
- Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 7th
- Crawford, Samuel Wylie, 1827-1892
- DeSaussure, Wilmot G. (Wilmot Gibbes), 1822-1886
- Dunovant, R. G. M. (Richard Gill Mills), 1821-1898
- Dupont, John
- First inauguration of Abraham Lincoln
- Florida--Fort Pickens
- Florida--Pensacola
- Fort Palmetto
- Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874
- Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864
- Gregg, Maxcy, 1814-1862
- Gwynn, Walter, 1802-1882
- Hall, Norman J., 1842-1867
- Hall, Norman J., 1842-1867
- Huguenin, Thomas Abram, 1839-1897
- Illinois--Springfield
- Indiana--Indianapolis
- Jamison, D. F. (David Flavel), 1810-1864
- Kaminski, Heiman, 1839-1923
- Lee, Francis D., 1826-1885
- Lincoln's Indiannapolis speech
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Lynch, Arthur M.
- Lynch, Thomas M.
- Macbeth, E. W.
- Maryland--Baltimore
- Melchers, Alexander, 1831-1885
- Norman, J. H. (James Henry), 1829-1877
- North Carolina--Fort Anderson
- North Island Redoubt
- Pawnee (Ship)
- Perryman, W. W. (William W.), 1831-1891
- Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Pickens, F.W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869
- Pope, Joseph James, Jr., 1825-1870
- Pundt, J. M.
- Rion, James H. (James Henry), 1828-1886
- Rooney, M. E.
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872
- Sherman, John, 1823-1900
- South Carolina Seccession Convention
- South Carolina--Breach Inlet
- South Carolina--Charleston
- South Carolina--Charleston--Castle Pinckney
- South Carolina--Charleston--Fort Sumter
- South Carolina--Coles Island
- South Carolina--Cummings Point
- South Carolina--Fort Johnson
- South Carolina--Fort Moultrie
- South Carolina--James Island
- South Carolina--Morris Island
- South Carolina--Mount Pleasant
- South Carolina--North Island
- South Carolina--Richmond
- South Carolina--State Arsenal
- South Carolina--Sullivans Island
- South Carolina--Winnsboro
- South Carolina. Constitutional Convention
- Thomas, Captain
- United States--New York Harbor
- United States. Army. South Carolina Volunteers, 1st (1862-1864)
- Virginia--Alexandria
- Virginia--Richmond
- Washington (D.C.)
- Washington Family
- Washington Light Infantry (Charleston, S.C.)
- Washington, L. Quinton
- Wigfall, Louis T. (Louis Trezevant), 1816-1874
Creator
- From the Collection: Jamison, D. F. (David Flavel), 1810-1864 (Person)
- From the Collection: Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864 (Correspondent, Person)
- From the Collection: Barnwell, Robert Woodward (Correspondent, Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository
