Draper Manuscripts: South Carolina in the Revolution Miscellanies, 1775-1877

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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).