Correspondence, 1861-04-02 - 1861-12
Scope and Contents
Folder six contains documents and correspondence from April to December of 1861. Included in this folder are reports of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States after the attack on Fort Sumter assessing the fort’s damage and detailing the evacuation of the United States soldiers stationed there during the siege. Other important documents include a contract for enlisted members of a South Carolina militia company of German immigrants; David F. Jamison’s letter of resignation as South Carolina secretary of war, a South Carolina militia application for Mexican War veteran Jacob Valentine signed by fellow Mexican War veterans; and a diagram for attacking Fort Sumter submitted by an unknown northerner sympathetic to the Confederate cause
Dates
- Creation: 1861-04-02 - 1861-12
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
- Pope, Joseph James, Jr., 1825-1870 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. South Carolina Artillery Regiment, 1st.. Lafayette Artillery Company (Organization)
- South Carolina--Sullivans Island (Organization)
- Small, Jacob, Captain (Person)
- German Rifle Company (Organization)
- South Carolina--Fort Moultrie (Organization)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 9th (Organization)
- Gist, States Rights, 1831-1864 (Person)
- Palmetto Riflemen (Organization)
- Dunovant, R. G. M. (Richard Gill Mills), 1821-1898 (Person)
- Ripley, R. S. (Roswell Sabine), 1823-1887 (Person)
- Anderson, Robert, Major, 1805 - 1871 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. South Carolina Artillery Regiment, 1st.. Lafayette Artillery Company (Organization)
- Heinrich, Harms, 1833-1869 (Person)
- Rutledge, Benjamin Huger, 1828-1893 (Person)
- South Carolina--Secessionville (Organization)
- South Carolina--Morris Island (Organization)
- South Carolina--Myrtle Beach (Organization)
- Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Regiment of Rifles, 1st (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston Harbor (Organization)
- South Carolina--Charleston (Organization)
- Gwynn, Walter, 1802-1882 (Person)
- Evans, Nathan George, 1824-1868 (Person)
- Pressley, John G. (John Gotea), 1833-1895 (Person)
- Foster, John G. (John Gray), 1823-1874 (Person)
- Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers (Organization)
- Walker, Joseph, 1835-1902 (Person)
- Pickens, F.W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 (Person)
- R & A.P. Caldwell (Organization)
- J. Campsen & Co. (Organization)
- South Carolina. Constitutional Convention (Organization)
- South Carolina Seccession Convention (Person)
- Ordnance of Secession (Organization)
- Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 (Person)
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 (Person)
- South Carolina--Columbia (Organization)
- South Carolina--Beaufort (Organization)
- South Carolina--Colleton County (Organization)
- South Carolina--Georgetown (Organization)
- Porter, Wm. D. (William Dennison), 1810-1883 (Person)
- Simons, James, 1813-1879 (Person)
- Valentine, Jacob (Person)
- Mexican War (1846-1848) (Organization)
- Blanding, William D., 1818-1888 (Person)
- Battle of Churubusco (Mexico City, Mexico: 1847) (Organization)
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia (Organization)
- Bennett, J. (Person)
- Motte Alston Pringle, Jacob, 1827-1886 (Person)
- Robertson, Louis F. (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 2nd (Organization)
- North, Edward (Person)
- Moses, H. (Person)
- Colcock, William Ferguson, 1804-1889 (Person)
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 17th (Organization)
- Cunningham, John (Person)
- Martin, William Edward, 1815-1869 (Person)
- Lee, Francis D., 1826-1885 (Person)
- South Carolina--James Island (Organization)
- Trapier, James H., 1815-1865 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository