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Title Upcountry South Carolina goes to war : letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families, 1853-1865 / edited by Tom Moore Craig ; introduction by Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig
Published Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, ©2009

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Contents Introduction / Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig -- Methodology -- Family Genealogies -- Pre-Civil War Letters -- Letters, 1861 -- Letters, 1862 -- Letters, 1863 -- Letters, 1864 -- Letters, 1865 -- 1. Rules of Thalian Academy (Slabtown School), 1858 -- 2. Labor and Commodity Inventory of the Lands of Thomas John Moore, 1866 -- 3. Labor Contract with Former Slaves at Fredonia, 1866
Summary Chronicles through correspondence the lives and concerns of prominent families in piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras. The 124 letters presented here were written by members of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of Spartanburg County, neighboring planter-class families united by their shared Scots-Irish ancestry and their membership at Nazareth Presbyterian Church. --from publisher description
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 13, 2012)
"Published in Cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the Assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Anderson family -- Correspondence
Brockman family -- Correspondence
Moore family -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Moore family -- Correspondence
Brockman family -- Correspondence
Anderson family -- Correspondence
Anderson family fast
Brockman family fast
Moore family fast
Subject Rural families -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
Country life -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Agriculture -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Agriculture
Country life
Rural families -- Social conditions
Social conditions
SUBJECT Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
Subject South Carolina
South Carolina -- Spartanburg County
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Craig, Tom Moore
Walker, Melissa, 1962-
South Caroliniana Library.
Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund.
LC no. 2008042216
ISBN 9781611171105
1611171105