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