Upcountry South Carolina goes to war : letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families, 1853-1865 / edited by Tom Moore Craig ; introduction by Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2012).
"Published in Cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the Assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
Chronicles through correspondence the lives and concerns of prominent families in piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras. The 124 letters presented here were written by members of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of Spartanburg County, neighboring planter-class families united by their shared Scots-Irish ancestry and their membership at Nazareth Presbyterian Church. --from publisher description.
Contents
Introduction / Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig -- Methodology -- Family Genealogies -- Pre-Civil War Letters -- Letters, 1861 -- Letters, 1862 -- Letters, 1863 -- Letters, 1864 -- Letters, 1865 -- 1. Rules of Thalian Academy (Slabtown School), 1858 -- 2. Labor and Commodity Inventory of the Lands of Thomas John Moore, 1866 -- 3. Labor Contract with Former Slaves at Fredonia, 1866.
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