Draper Manuscripts: South Carolina in the Revolution Miscellanies, 1775-1877
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Summary Information
Title: Draper Manuscripts: South Carolina in the Revolution Miscellanies
Inclusive Dates: 1775-1877

Call Number: Draper Mss UU

Quantity: 0.4 cubic feet (2 volumes)

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
A collection of materials focusing on South Carolina during the American Revolution. Included are descriptions of battles, biographies and sketches, accounts of military service, and speeches. A few unrelated items include a narrative by John Stuart about the campaign of Andrew Lewis and the Battle of Point Pleasant during Dunmore's War in 1774 in West Virginia, and articles on the presidential election of 1800 in the electoral college.

Note:

Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present.

This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts / by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.



Language: English

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Use Restrictions

PHOTOCOPY RESTRICTION: Photocopying originals is not permitted; researchers may copy from the microfilm available in the Library.


Contents List
Draper Mss UU
Series: 1 UU (Volume 1)
Scope and Content Note: Articles and pamphlets on varied topics: Revolutionary battles in South Carolina; biographical pieces relating to such men as Edward Lacey and Banastre Tarleton; Guilford Dudley's narrative of his military services; recollections (1822) of Horatio Gates's southern campaign written by his former aide-de-camp, Thomas Pinckney; circular letters (1803, 1831) by Thomas Sumter; Daniel G. Stinson's obituary of John Simpson; and Stinson's biographical sketches of South Carolina heroines written for and published by Elizabeth F. Ellet in The Women of the American Revolution, III (1861). Periodicals represented by selections include Scot's Magazine (1781); Gentleman's Magazine (1781); Southern Literary Messenger (1845); The Southern Presbyterian Review (1853); and Historical Magazine (1866).
Series: 2 UU (Volume 2)
Scope and Content Note

Printed selections pertaining primarily to the Revolution in the Carolinas and Georgia. Among them are biographical materials on Johann Kalb, Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, and John White; information on the battle of Fort Moultrie and battle of Camden; the text of William Drayton's talk to the Cherokee (September 25, 1775); and a speech (1828) on relief for surviving Revolutionary War officers delivered by Senator John M. Berrien of Georgia.

Two Fort Moultrie Centennial (1876) pamphlets are interspersed among articles from such periodicals and newspapers as The Southern Literary Messenger (1846-1847), Historical Magazine (1858, 1859, 1867), The American Historical Record (1873), The Southern Presbyterian (1873), the Chester (South Carolina) Reporter (1874), The Southern Home (1875). Also included are The Enterprise and Mountaineer (Greenville, South Carolina) (1878), The Yorkville (South Carolina) Enquirer (1880), The Signal (Louisville, Mississippi) (1883), Carolina Spartan (Spartanburg, South Carolina) (1885), and The Monograph (undated).

A few items unrelated to the main theme of the series were bound into this volume: a narrative by John Stuart about the campaign of Andrew Lewis and the battle of Point Pleasant during Dunmore's War (1774) in western Virginia, taken from the Magazine of American History (1877); and articles on the presidential election of 1800 in the electoral college, from the Richmond Inquirer (Virginia) (1823).
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