Charles W. Cowan papers, 1854-1913.
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Mixed materialsDescription: 100 items; 1 container; 0.2 linear feetSubject(s): - Cowan, Margaret Susannah Foster, 1838-1890 -- Correspondence
- Cowan family -- Correspondence
- Confederate States of America. Army -- Military life
- Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 14th
- Agriculture -- South Carolina -- Abbeville County
- Abbeville County (S.C.) -- History
- South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Farmers
- Officers -- Confederate States of America
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Chiefly correspondence between Cowan while serving with 14th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate Army, and his wife, Margaret Susannah Foster Cowan, and other family members. Letters pertain to conditions and life in camps in South Carolina and Virginia as well as to management of the Cowan farm in Abbeville County, S.C. Also includes transcripts of a portion of the letters, financial records, a will, newspaper clippings, and a photograph of Cowan.
Confederate Army officer and farmer of Abbeville, S.C.
Collection material in English.
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