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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
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.
Publication
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Craig, Tom Moore.
  • Walker, Melissa, 1962-
  • South Caroliniana Library
  • Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund.
Description
xxxii, 190 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
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
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Anderson family > Correspondence
  • Brockman family > Correspondence
  • Moore family > Correspondence
  • Rural families > Spartanburg County > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources
  • Country life > Spartanburg County > History > 19th century > Sources
  • Agriculture > Spartanburg County > History > 19th century > Sources
  • South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources
  • Spartanburg County (S.C.) > History > 19th century > Sources
  • Spartanburg County (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources
Genre/Form
  • Electronic books
  • History
  • Records and correspondence
  • Sources
Note
  • "Published in Cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the Assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781570037986 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1570037981 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008042216
OCLC
  • 257557464
  • SCSB-11160170
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Harvard Library