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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 10 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 7 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 2 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
4 acres in Ocanee county by Thomas G. Clemson, on condition that the State erect and maintain an agricultural and mechanical college......1888 First colored State fair ever held in the State opens at Columbia......Jan. 1, 1890 Act passed creating a board of phosphate commissioners......1890 Department of Agriculture and office of commissioner of agriculture abolished, and powers bestowed on trustees of the Clemson Agricultural College at session......Nov. 25–Dec. 24, 1890 Col. Samuel B. Pickens dies at Charleston......Sept. 17, 1891 Nathaniel Duncan Ingraham, formerly of the United States navy (Koszta affair), afterwards in the Confederate service, dies at Charleston......Oct. 16, 1891 Maj. George Washington Earle, of Darlington, noted mathematician and civil engineer, dies......May 5, 1892 State redistricted as to congressional districts......1893 Evans liquor law goes into effect, by which the State assumes control of the sale of intoxicants......July 1, 1893
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, D. C. (search)
be established there without governmental resistance. But all were not satisfied of the co-operation of the President. Some South Carolina spies in Washington could not trust him. One of them, writing to the Charleston Mercury, said: I know all that has been done here, but depend upon nothing that Mr. Buchanan promises. He will cheat us unless we are too quick for him. Nor would they confide implicitly in each other. The same writer said: Further, let me warn you of the danger of Governor Pickens making Trescott his channel of communication with the President, for the latter will be informed of everything that transpires, and that to our injury. Washington society was at that time thoroughly permeated with the views of the Confederates, and the Southern members of Congress, in both houses, formed the focus of the disunion movements in the slave-labor States which soon created civil war. Yet, with all this tide of open disloyalty surging around the national capital, the Presiden