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).