5 June 1863

Echols, William H., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major D. B. Harris

Unfulfilled requisitions to the South Carolina government for slaves "leaves the Capt almost entirely without laborers and consequently without the means of carrying on satisfactorily the work expected to be done" for coastal defense. With autograph endorsement signed by Harris, forwarding the letter to General Beauregard, and autograph endorsement signed by General Thomas Jordan forwarding it to Governor Bonham.

GLC09213

28 April 1863

Harris, D.B., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Responds to complaints that the impressed slaves are idle. "Requisitions have from time to time been made upon the State authorities for slave labor, not for the purpose of harassing the planters or interfering in their business, but, for the construction of works deemed necessary for the defense of their City, and State...That there is at present no guns in the Battery...is no evidence that the labor required to erect the work, has been thrown away. General Beauregard forwards the letter to Governor Bonham "for his information & for transmission to Mr. Mazick who is probably not aware…

GLC09214

28 April 1863

Echols, William H., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major D. B. Harris

Explains "the seven or eight negroes he [Senator Mazyck] speaks of were idle a few days, they were detailed for contingencies in the city,...and variously employed on small jobs." With autograph endorsement signed by Harris.

GLC09215.01

29 April 1863

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Governor Bonham

About complaints that the impressed slaves are idle. "Nothing is known of this matter at these Hd Quarters."

GLC09215.02

24 April 1863

Boham, Milledge L., 1813-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Replies to Beauregard's forwarded report by William Echols of 20 April 1863. "I have directed Col. Shannon to call on two Divisions...for the month of May, which I hope will enable the Engineer to complete the works, as the cultivation of the provision crop... is growing daily more important and there is great unwillingness on the part of the planters to send their hands to the Coast at this particular period."

GLC09216

20 April 1863

Echols, William H., fl. 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major D. B. Harris

Details the lack of slave laborers supplied during March and April. General Beauregard forwards the report to Governor Bonham with comment. "It is probable that sooner or later a still more determined attack on Charleston will be made & it is of vital importance to complete as soon as possible the works considered indeensible for its safety." With autograph endorsement signed by Harris and another by General Beauregard.

GLC09217

3 April 1863

Arthur, B.F., fl. 1860-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: To General Johnson Hagood

Bonham's secretary asks General Hagood to investigate "a lad of 14 years of age...having run away from his mother, and joined Co. 'G' Nelson's Battalion" and to refuse the boy's enlistment if he is that young.

GLC09218

27 August 1863

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Emergency proclamation]

Emergency proclamation empowering agents to seize slaves for military labor. "I must rely on my Countrymen...in the speedy discharge of this duty. Planters may be assured, that the true way to serve their own interests is to do what they can to enable me to hold Charleston.

GLC09219

18 August 1863

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: to Governor Bonham

Forwards clerical copy of Major William Echols's report of 16 April 1863 to Major D.B. Haris, "List of Negroes received month Jul 1863."

GLC09220

10 August 1863

Hayne, J.W., fl. 1863

Letter signed

Title: to Governor Bonham

Summarizes the history of the policy resolutions to defend Charleston. "...at any cost of life or property...they would prefer a repulse of the enemy, with the entire city in ruins, to an evacuation or surrender on any terms whatever." Quotes General Lee's orders, "if necessary, that the fight should be made from street to street, and from house to house."

GLC09221

26 July 1863

Beauregard, G.T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Governor Bonham

Answers another compaint about idle "negores," he requests Governor Bonhma to "require all reports and rumours officially communicated to you, should be made in writing, in order that you may refer the communication to me when of sufficient importance, you will then find that few idle reports will reach you."

GLC09222

16 October 1863

Seddon, James

Letter signed

Title: to Governor Bonham

Responds to resolutions passed by the South Carolina General Assembly, which feels burdened by the Confederate government's taxation and impressment of slaves for military labor. "[I]t has been the studious effort of the Department to temper its execution by as much of leniency, discretion, and generality as was compatible with its due enforcement or the accumulation of adequate supplies essential to the army." With autograph endorsement signed by Bonham.

GLC09223

5 October 1863

Boham, Milledge L., 1813-1890

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Seddon

Copying an urgent telegram from General Beauregard. "If two thousand (2000) or three thousand (3000) small arms called for by my Chief of Ordnance from Col. Gorgas be not furnished I must disband several six months regiments lately called out." Bonham notes that earlier "I gave notice I could not arm them" and was told by Gorgas in July and September "that arms would be provided."

GLC09224

6 October 1864

Melton, James, fl. 1864

Manuscript document

Title: List of General and Field Officers in the Provisional Army from the State of South Carolina who have died whilst in Service.

Compiled through June 1864. Forwarded by Melton to the adjutant and inspector general of South Carolina. Among those listed are brigadier generals Bernard Bee, who gave "Stonewall" Jackson his nickname; Maxcy Gregg; and Micah Jenkins. Autograph endorsement signed by Melton.

GLC09225

16 July 1864

Longstreet, James, 1821-1904

Manuscript letter

Title: to Governor Bonham

General James Longstreet, wounded in a friendly fire incident at the Battle of the Wilderness, mourns the death of Brigadier General Micah Genkins, killed by the same volley. "He has left to the youth of your state a noble legacy in his dauntless heroisms & spotless life, I trust that his memory will be cherished & his noble example will be felt for generations yet to come." Penned and signed by Mrs. Longstreet for her injured husband.

GLC09226

22 August 1864

Arthur, B.F.

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel R.B. Johnson

Governor Bonham's secretary asks the state agent to turn over for prosectuion "the names of the Sheriffs who have made default in executing the law in relation to procuring Slave Labor - together wiht the names of witnesses &c.... in all such cases as you think can be successfully made out."

GLC09227

31 July 1861

Cash, Ellerbee Boggan, 1823-1888

Autograph letter

Title: to Brigadier General M.L. Bonham

Account of the victory at First Bull Run by a colonel in the 8th South Carolina Infantry. "The enemy now fled in the utmost confusion throwing away everything which at all impeded his flight...my Sergant Major...took as a prisoner Mr. Ely a member of Congress from New York who armed with a revolver had come upon the field to enjoy the pleasure of witnessing our defeat."

GLC09228

1863 ca.

Photograph

Title: Training Negro troops

Mounted albumen print of the members of the Louisiana Native Guard learning to read at Port Hudson, Louisiana, at a school set up for the soldiers and freedmen. The guard was one of the first all-black units in the Civil War, formed by Benjamin Butler in 1862.

GLC09229

10 December 1863

Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh, 1822-1905

Manuscript letter

Title: to L. Pierce Jr.

Retained copy of letter to the U.S. Consul at Matamoras, declining to intervene in the ongoing Civil War in Mexico. "The federal government of Mexico is on terms of intimate friendship with ours... if your danger is iminent you should remove herer under my protection with your property and money."

GLC09230

2-4 March 1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Unidentified soldier of the 16th New Hampshire Volunteers in Mansfield, Louisiana, describes a prayer meeting at a black church, visits to New Orleans, and army life. "We are thinking that the Conscription Act will go rather hard with some of the patriotic(?) ones at home. I understand that if it has really become a law, that if we get home safely we shall not have to go again 'till all the rest have been'." Signed with sketch of an anchor, symbolizing virtue of hope.

GLC09231

1835

Pamphlet

Title: The Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. 1

Six issues of The Anti-Slavery Record published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, each bearing a dramatic woodcut illustrating the horrors visited upon slaves. 12 pages each. Includes: No. 6 - June, No. 7 - July, No. 9 - September (2nd edition), No. 10 - October (2nd edition), No. 11 - November (2nd edition), No. 12 - December (1st edition).

GLC09232

1853

Pamphlet

Title: The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster

Collection of 16 antebellum pamphlets, including several scarce and rare items, touching on the major political topics in post-Jacksonian politics, mainly the future of slavery. Partial contents: "The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster;" "Speech of the Hon. Henry Williams, Of Massachusetts, On the Independent Treasury Bill (1840);" "Proceedings of the U.S. Senate, On the Fugitive Slave Bill, The Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbian, And the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports: With the Speeches of Messrs. Davis, Winthrop, and…

GLC09233

1849-1854

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

Header Record

Title: [California Gold Rush archive][Decimalized .01- .25]

Documents the activities of Thompson Baxter of Quincey, Massachusetts, and his store in Stockton, California. Includes letters to and from his wife, printed cartoon panel ("This is a true Picture of Callifornia I have seen it And experienced it myself T. Baxter"), bank drafts illustrated with Gold Rush scenes, and Baxter's descriptive business ledger, dating from June 1850 through October 1852.

GLC09234

July 1858

Spooner, Lysander, fl. 1865

Broadside

Title: A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery

"A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery," imploring non-slaveholding whites in the South to combine with slaves to overthrow plantation owners. "Your numbers, combined with those of the Slaves, will give you all power. You have but to use it, and the work is done. The following self-evident principles of justice and humanity will serve as guides. … 1. That the Slaves have a natural right to their liberty. 2. That they have a natural right to compensation (so far as the property of the Slaveholders and their abettors can compensate them) for the wrongs they have suffered. 3. That so long as the…

GLC09235

February 1, 1858

Broadside

Title: [Slave sale broadside]

"Administrator's Sale! …at public auction, to the highest and best bidder…a likely young Negro Woman, Named Mary, and her child.…J. M. M'Cutchen, Administrator." Posted in Boonville, Missouri-rare slave sale broadsides from west of the Mississippi.

GLC09236