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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 10: the voyage and Arrival.—December, 1837, to January, 1838— age, 26-27. (search)
id. Try to understand every thing as you proceed; and cultivate a love for every thing that is true, good, and pure. I need not exhort you to set a price upon every moment of time; your own convictions, I have no doubt, have taught you that minutes are like gold filings, too valuable to be slighted,— for a heap of these will make an ingot. Give my love to mother, and all the family. Tell George to write me a brisk, news-full letter. Your affectionate brother, Chas. Journal. Dec. 28, 1837. At length in Havre, with antiquity staring at me from every side. At four o'clock this morning weighed anchor, and drifted with the tide and a gentle wind to the docks; a noble work, contrived for the reception of vessels, and bearing the inscription of An IX. Bonaparte 1er Consul,—the labor of this great man meeting me on the very threshold of France. Dismissed from the custom house we went to the Hotel de New York, where a smiling French woman received us, and we were shown each o
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
tizen of Greenville has been one worthy of note and emulation. As a member of the firm of Cely & Brother he does a large and varied business, and is very successful in his enterprises. Mr. Cely was married in 1876 to Kate M. Lake, of Edgefield county, who died in 1884, and five years later he wedded her sister, Sallie M. Lake, who died in 1897. He has one son living: Thomas Lake Cely. Lieutenant fleet Clinkscales Lieutenant Fleet Clinkscales was born in Anderson county, S. C., December 28, 1837. His father, Levi Clinkscales, died when he was but five years old. His mother,. Mary (Rice) Clinkscales, now deceased, was thus left a widow, with the responsibility of rearing her son without a father's aid. The boy grew up on the farm and at the age of twenty-one undertook the conduct of the business for his mother. He was her dependence until the war came on and South Carolina's need of defenders led him to the field. In January, 1862, before the passage of the conscript act, h