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The Citadel, Ashley River site. Cadets going to class

The commencement of the battle near Pocotaligo River; Campaign in South Carolina -- Landing of the national troops under Gens. Brannan and Terry, at Mackey's Point; The national troops under Gens. Brannan and Terry, driving the rebels under Beauregard across the Pocotaligo bridge.

The Cotton Palace and the Sunken Garden at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition

The fight for the rifle-pits in front of Battery Wagner

The Front Steps on the Lawn of Anderson University

The Girl Behind the Gun 1915

The Great Expedition, on the way to Port Royal Inlet; The bombardment of Forts Walker and Beauregard, Port Royal Inlet, South Carolina.

The Guards at Steele's Opera House

The Rifle Guards appear, with drawn bayonettes, in the 800 block of Front Street in front of Steele's Opera House. The opera house was located on the second floor of this building which stood on the north side of Front Street, about where Belk was situated in 1978, and which is now Augustus and Carolina. A dispensary operated on the first floor to the right, and a dry goods store to the left. The building was just down the street from Atkinson's Meat Market.

The Homestead (ca 1820), Brattonsville

The Honorable B. Lincoln, Esq., Major General in the American Army

Print shows Benjamin Lincoln, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform; in oval.

The Honorable William Johnson, Jr.

Member, South Carolina State House of Representatives from the city parishes of St. Philip’s and St. Michael’s for the Eleventh (1794–1795), Twelfth (1796–1797), and Thirteenth (1798–1799) General Assemblies. Served as Speaker of the House for the Thirteenth General Assembly. Elected an associate justice of the South Carolina Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas on December 18, 1799, serving until his resignation on May 1, 1804. Appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in March 1804, serving until his death on August 4, 1834.

The Immigration Society of Newberry, S.C., is prepared to furnish the country with field laborers and mechanics

Announcing charges of the society to supply foreign laborers as field hands and mechanics during Reconstruction-era; listing expenses for seasonal hire of a laborer,or an entire immigrant family, with rates for travel expenses for workers coming from New York to any point on the South Carolina and Greenville and Columbia Rail Road; and offering suggestions to improve labor relations. Officers of the society include F.W. Bruggemann, General Agent of the Society; Rev. T[haddeus] S[treet] Boinest, president; Silas Johnstone, Secretary; and B.L.McCaughrin, treasurer.

The Irish Volunteers in the Great Battle

Transcription of article appearing in the Charleston Daily Courier, July 9, 1862, reprinting a letter from Sgt. Alexander V. O'Donnell of the South Carolina Irish Volunteers to his brother. The letter recounts the Battle of Gaines's Mill (June 27; also First Cold Harbor or Battle of Chickahominy River), part of the Seven Days Battles of the Peninsula Campaign.