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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 148 items) |
Abstract | Chiefly letters from John Barnwell Elliott (1841-1921) while a Confederate soldier on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, in Charleston, in Paris after the Civil War, and as a professor and physician at the University of the South, 1870-1885, written to his brother, Habersham, his father, Bishop Stephen Elliott of Georgia, and other relatives (21 original items, 3 typed transcriptions). Also included are papers (on microfilm) of J. B. Elliott's mother-in-law, Mary Esther (Huger) Huger (b. 1820), daughter of Francis Kinloch Huger, including her reminiscences, written 1890-1892, of her early life at Pendleton and Charleston, S.C.; a plantation record book, 1858-1863; and her essays on slavery and the causes of the Civil War; and a memoir of the Prioleau family of Charleston, S.C. Scattered other family correspondence and letters to J. B. Elliott from prominent persons is included. |
Creator | Elliott, Habersham. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, September 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, April 2021
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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John Gibbes Barnwell Elliott was born on 26 September 1841 in Beaufort, S.C., the son of Reverend Stephen Elliott and Charlotte Bull Barnwell. Among his siblings were Habersham, Hesse, Robert Woodward Barnwell, Sarah "Sada" Barnwell, and Ester. He joined the South Carolina College Corps at the bombardment of Fort Sumter and became a lieutenant of the Light Artillery in the 10th Regiment of Georgia Regulars. After the Civil War, he became a professor of chemistry and health officer at the University of the South, 1870-1885. John B. married Harriott Lucas Huger in 1870.
Back to TopChiefly letters from John Barnwell Elliott (1841-1921) while a Confederate soldier on the South Carolina and Georgia coasts, in Charleston, in Paris after the Civil War, and as a professor and physician at the University of the South, 1870-1885, written to his brother, Habersham, his father, Bishop Stephen Elliott of Georgia, and other relatives (21 original items, 3 typed transcriptions). Also included are papers (on microfilm) of J. B. Elliott's mother-in-law, Mary Esther (Huger) Huger (b. 1820), daughter of Francis Kinloch Huger, including her reminiscences, written 1890-1892, of her early life at Pendleton and Charleston, S.C.; a plantation record book, 1858-1863; and her essays on slavery and the causes of the Civil War; and a memoir of the Prioleau family of Charleston, S.C. Scattered other family correspondence and letters to J. B. Elliott from prominent persons is included.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Chiefly letters from John Barnwell Elliott written during the Civil War from camps in South Carolina and Georgia to his brother Habersham and other members of his family. After the war, there are letters from John B. Elliott to his parents and his sister, Hesse, while he was in Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., 1866-1868, and Paris in winter 1868-1869. There are also letters written by John B. Elliott from the University of the South to Habersham. John B. Elliott's letters touch on family matters, politics, sports, religion, social life in Charleston and Savannah, and the medical profession, including smallpox in Charleston and cholera in Savannah.
Other correspondence includes two letters, 1840, from Francis Kinloch Huger to Judge Daniel Elliott Huger and one letter from the judge to his son, Joseph Allston Huger. There is also one letter, 1898, from Dr. William Porcher Dubose (1836-1918) to Mrs. Joseph Huger commenting on her article written for Esther Huger Elliott (see Folder 10) on the causes of the Civil War and emphasizing the constitutional rights of the South.
Folder 1 |
1840-1865 |
Folder 2 |
1866 |
Folder 3 |
1867-1868 |
Folder 4 |
1869-1870 |
Folder 5 |
1871-1872 |
Folder 6 |
1873-1878 |
Folder 7 |
1882-1898 |
Recollections and plantation book of members of the Huger family. The two recollections were written by Harriott Lucas Huger Elliott and her mother, Mrs. Joseph A. Huger. The latter wrote her recollections for her granddaughter, Esther Huger Elliott, daughter of Harriott Elliott, who, deaf from infancy, lived with her grandmother and was brought up by her.