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Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902 to Theodora Colcock Hutson (incomplete)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08165.14 Author/Creator: Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902 Place Written: Columbia, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 November 1866 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy

Discusses a visit with C.W., possibly Charles Woodward Hutson, his nephew, at the University of South Carolina. Reminisces about his time as a student there eight years earlier. Reports attending a convention also attended by "many men of influence from the State" of South Carolina. Discusses speeches made by Chancelor John Inglis, James Chestnut, Jr., and Wade Hampton. Mentions meeting Livingston and Sallie Wigg. Hutson was a Corporal, 1st South Carolina Infantry, during the Civil War. Theodora was his wife. Inglis attended the South Carolina Secession Convention and chaired the committee that adopted the Ordinance of secession. Chestnut and Wade were generals in the Confederate army. Incomplete letter.

Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902
Hutson, Theodora Olivia Colcock, 1849-?
Inglis, John Auchinloss, 1813-1878
Chesnut, James, Jr., 1815-1885
Hampton, Wade, III, 1818-1902
Wigg, Livingston, 1838-?
Wigg, Sallie, fl. 1862-1866

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