Series: 22 VV (Volume 22)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly Draper correspondence, 1870-1881, on Revolutionary events and persons in the Carolinas. Of special note is an extensive series of letters by James H. Saye narrating much of the history of the Revolution in this region. Although countless names are mentioned throughout the volume, there are substantial references to John Barton; Benjamin Cleveland; Josiah Culbertson; the two Herndon brothers, Benjamin and Joseph, and their half-brothers, Charles, Joseph, and Nathaniel Gordon; John Thomas Sr., and his son, John Jr.; and David and John Witherspoon. Also filed here are a long poem on the battle of Eutaw Springs, an account of the battle of Ramsour's Mill, and notes by Draper from Wilkes County, North Carolina, records, 1778-1785 (loaned to him in 1881 by the county commissioners). Letters in 1880 by Z.H. Gordon and J.H. Witherspoon of Alabama contain comments on national and local elections and are accompanied by a handbill issued by Witherspoon as a candidate for the Alabama legislature from Lauderdale County.