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Abstract | Samuel Catawba Lowry (died 1864) was a Confederate soldier who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and South Carolina. The collection includes a typed transcription of diary entries and recollections, with poems and brief essays, all by Samuel Catawba Lowry. The diary entries and recollections are vivid and detailed accounts of comrades and camp servants, soldiers' daily activities, hunting and fishing, nearby civilian conditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles. The essays include "The Right of the South to Secede from the North" and "Are we Rebels?" |
Creator | Lowry, Samuel Catawba, d. 1864. |
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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, April 2009
Updated by: Laura Hart, January 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Samuel Catawba Lowry (died 1864) was a Confederate soldier who served, 1861-1862 and 1863-1864 with the 17th South Carolina Infantry, Confederate States of America, in Virginia and South Carolina. Lowry was wounded at the battle of Second Manassas (Bull Run), 27-28 August 1862, and upon recovery, was discharged from the army for being underage. He apparently attended the Arsenal, a military school in Columbia, S.C., until his reenlistment in September 1863. He was killed in the battle of the Crater on 30 July 1864.
Back to TopThe collection includes a typed transcription of diary entries and recollections, with poems and brief essays, all by Samuel Catawba Lowry. The diary entries and recollections are vivid and detailed accounts of comrades and camp servants, soldiers' daily activities, hunting and fishing, nearby civilian conditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles. There is considerable information concerning the siege of Forts Sumter and Moultrie and some description of his regiment's participation in the repulsion of General Benjamin F. Butler's invasion at Bermuda Hundred, Va. The essays include "The Right of the South to Secede from the North" and "Are we Rebels?"
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