Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902 to Theodora Colcock Hutson (incomplete)

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GLC#
GLC08165.14-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
8 November 1866
Author/Creator
Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902
Title
to Theodora Colcock Hutson (incomplete)
Place Written
Columbia, South Carolina
Pagination
4 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
Reconstruction

Discusses a visit with C.W., possibly Charles Woodward Hutson, his nephew, at the University of South Carolina. Reminisces about his time as a student there eight years earlier. Reports attending a convention also attended by "many men of influence from the State" of South Carolina. Discusses speeches made by Chancelor John Inglis, James Chestnut, Jr., and Wade Hampton. Mentions meeting Livingston and Sallie Wigg. Hutson was a Corporal, 1st South Carolina Infantry, during the Civil War. Theodora was his wife. Inglis attended the South Carolina Secession Convention and chaired the committee that adopted the Ordinance of secession. Chestnut and Wade were generals in the Confederate army. Incomplete letter.

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