Primary Sources & First Person Accounts, Civil War, Charleston, SC and Vicinity

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These online documents are listed in alphabetical order by Author, or by name of publication if unknown. William Hamilton welcomes your suggestions

The 105th. U.S.C.T. a black regiment raised in Charleston at wars end. Never paid and abandoned by the federal army. Experience their history through the actual army documents and correspondence. See a copy of the recruiting poster used in Charleston.

General Beauregard writes on the Fall of Ft. Sumter.

Cooley, William letter, dated 22 June 1862, was written to his parents in Connecticutt. A member of the Connecticutt Volunteers, Cooley recounts the horror of assaulting fixed Confederate positions near Hilton Head, South Carolina. Wounded in the fight, Cooley describes the scene as a "slaughter pen." Cooley Papers, #3678

letter from Rose Greenhow, the famous Confederate lady spy, Charleston, June 29, 1863

Haskell, Lt. Alexander, letter April 17, 1861 to his parents. Haskell writes of the fall of Fort Sumter.

S.C. Governor Francis Pickens calls for an immediate invasion of the North and conquest of Washington, DC, then defended by less than 5000 federal troops, May 1861

Simpson, Tally, 3rd. S.C. writes a Christmas letter home from the trenches of Petersburg, 1862.


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