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Records the cruise of the C.S.S. Shenandoah from Madeira to Australia and then to the Bering Sea and the taking of numerous prizes among American whalers and merchantmen before sailing for England via Cape Horn to seek asylum after the final…

City of Charleston and Colleton County woman's systematic accounts of annual expenditures, including charities and presents. Also includes items purchased for enslaved peoples. Annual income statements list sources of receipts, including hiring out…

Photograph shows slaves working in the sweet potato fields on the Hopkinson plantation. Reverse reads "Sweet potato planting at Hopkinsons - Ediston Island, S.C. Apr. 1862. Donated by Peter Manigault through Warren Ripley."

Officers of the 3d New Hampshire Infantry in camp on Hilton Head Island. Reverse reads "Palmetto Tree, Emmons & Handersons Quarters, 3d N.H.V. Hilton Head, March 1862."

Group of emancipated enslaved people sitting in yard. With buildings visible in background. Reverse reads "Slaves of Reb. Gen. Thos. F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C."

A freedman, several freewomen and many children in front of a cabin. A white man peeks through cabin door. Reverse labeled as "Live oak at Elliott's Hilton Head, S.C. The largest on the island or vicinity."

Photo shows a group of enslaved African Americans posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Reverse reads "'Gwine to de Field,' Hopkinsons…

Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation. Reverse reads "Live oak and palmetto trees at Elliott's Place, Hilton Head, S.C."

LibGuide on this item available.This volume covers the dates Wednesday, December 18, 1861 through Wednesday, March 18, 1863. This period is fully within the span of the Civil War. In 1862 Charleston also fell under martial law, and policing by the…

LibGuide on this item available.This ledger includes tax return information paid by free people of color for the year 1863, the middle of the Civil War. The state of South Carolina came under martial law in 1862, and would remain so until the end of…