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Size | About 35 items |
Abstract | John Cheves Haskell was a Confederate officer and lawyer of South Carolina. The collection contains, in part, typed transcript and microfilm copies of originals in private hands. Included are Civil War letters from Haskell to his family, and a typed transcript copy of his reminiscences, written circa 1903 (137 pages). Haskell served in Virginia as an aide to generals Longstreet and Beauregard successively. The recollections describe experiences and personalities in detail and include the attack on Charleston, S.C., accounts of the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, and of the Appomattox Campaign and of action around New Bern and Washington, N.C. Officers mentioned include Horace Randall, R. J. Moses, Joseph E. Johnston, Richard S. Ewell, Isaac R. Trimble, Stonewall Jackson, Robert A. Toombs, and James Longstreet and P. G. T. Beauregard. Also included in the papers are a few post-war letters while Haskell was a lawyer at Columbia, S.C., and scattered other family and genealogical papers. |
Creator | Haskell, John Cheves, 1841-1906. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011
This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
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John Cheves Haskell was a Confederate officer and lawyer of South Carolina.
Back to TopThe collection contains, in part, typed transcript and microfilm copies of originals in private hands. Included are Civil War letters from Haskell to his family, and a typed transcript copy of his reminiscences, written circa 1903 (137 pages). Haskell served in Virginia as an aide to generals Longstreet and Beauregard successively. The recollections describe experiences and personalities in detail and include the attack on Charleston, S.C., accounts of the battles of Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, and of the Appomattox Campaign and of action around New Bern and Washington, N.C. Officers mentioned include Horace Randall, R. J. Moses, Joseph E. Johnston, Richard S. Ewell, Isaac R. Trimble, Stonewall Jackson, Robert A. Toombs, and James Longstreet and P. G. T. Beauregard. Also included in the papers are a few post-war letters while Haskell was a lawyer at Columbia, S.C., and scattered other family and genealogical papers.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Papers, 1857-1889 |
Folder 2 |
"Reminiscences of the Confederate War, 1861-1865" |
Reel M-2549/1 |
Typed articles, genealogical data, newspaper clipping |