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Box 1

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Contains 6 Results:

Typed transcript of letter from Unionist James Louis Petigru to Confederate friend Joshua Hill, 1862 January 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1862 January 28

"From Savannah: Development of Union Sentiment in Georgia" clipping, 1865 January 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1865 January 10

Handwritten poem, "Charge of Hagood's Brigade...21st Aug. 1864 on the Federal lines on the Weldon R[ail] R[oa]d," author unknown, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: undated

"The Committee on Colored Population" report and proposed South Carolina House of Representatives Bill by J. Harleston Read, 1861 December 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 4
Scope and Contents

Calls for "more efficient Police Regulations" of enslaved and free colored people. Sent by mail to Gov. R.F.W. (Robert Francis Withers) Allston.

Dates: 1861 December 5

Printed broadside from United States Senator Robert Goodloe Harper to "Dear Sir", 1795 June 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Item: 4
Scope and Contents

Outlines the stipulations of the controversial Jay treaty within Great Britain.

Dates: 1795 June 29