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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Charles W. Cowan papers, 1854-1913</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Cowan, Charles W. (Charles Wesley)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1829-1893</namePart>
    <role>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Confederate Army officer and farmer of Abbeville, S.C.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cowan, Margaret Susannah Foster</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1838-1890</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cowan family</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
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    <topic>Military life</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Confederate States of America.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army.</namePart>
      <namePart>South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 14th.</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Agriculture</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <geographic>Abbeville County</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Abbeville County (S.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Farmers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Officers</occupation>
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