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Pencil drawings depict a soldier, a sailing vessel, parts of ships, and railroad cars and parts. Correspondence includes a letter (May 17, 1861) from Manigault to Gov. F.W. Pickens asking the governor to authorize his brother Col. Gabriel Manigault to act in his place as Ordnance Officer while he is away in Montgomery, Ala.; and a letter, June 10, 1861, to Manigault from engineer Francis D. Lee passing on a request from Capt. McCrady for block and tackle. Miscellaneous items include Manigault's parole issued at Hilton Head, S.C., on May 10, 1865; and a copy of a letter (1908) from C.S. Gadsden to D.E.H. Smith about the work and character of Manigault.
Much of the narrative deals with operations at Manigault's plantation, Marshlands, located six miles from Charleston on the Cooper River; his attempts to recover stolen property, and complaints about the conduct of the freedmen. He criticizes the Federal officers, whose "principal characteristic... was that of theft," and in particular General Daniel Edgar Sickles, "sent to lord it over South Carolina." He also mentions his cousin General Edward Manigault, his son Gabriel Manigault, his cousin Heyward Manigault (of Adams Run, S.C.), and the fate of some Manigault family portraits and art work.
Scrapbook, 1861-1865, containing journal entries written by Peter Manigault (1731-1773) while traveling in England; journal entries and correspondence of Louis Manigault (1828-1899) and Gabriel Edward Manigault (1833-1899) while the brothers served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; letters and reports on hospital conditions written by Joseph Jones (1833-1896), a surgeon in the Confederate Army; testimony and correspondence regarding the trial of Captain Henry Wirz (1823-1865) for poor conditions at Camp Sumter, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Andersonville, Georgia; and descriptions of photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera housed in original scrapbook.
African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.
W. Eric Emerson traces the wartime experiences of the Charleston Light Dragoons--a unique Confederate cavalry company drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious families of planters, merchants, and politicos--and examines the military exploits of this "company of gentlemen" to find that the elite status of its membership dictated the terms of service
An anthology of important scholarship on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras from the journal Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. Since 1931, the South Carolina Historical Association has published an annual, peer-reviewed journal of historical scholarship. In this volume, past SCHA officers of Michael Brem Bonner and Fritz Hamer present twenty-three of the most enduring and significant essays from the archives, offering a treasure trove of scholarship on an impressive variety of subjects including race, politics, military events, and social issues. All articles published in the Proceedings after 2002 are available on the SCHA website, but this volume offers, for the first time, easy access to the journal’s best articles on the Civil War and Reconstruction up through 2001. Preeminent scholars such as Frank Vandiver, Dan T. Carter, and Orville Vernon Burton are among the contributors to this collection, an essential resource for historical synthesis of the Palmetto State’s experience during that era.
"[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. Kennedy's study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.