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Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the
inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty
years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech,
the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of
the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens
have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke,
Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary
and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for
outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and
progress. To date, inductees have included political leaders and
reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy,
educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson,
authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy
Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner,
Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter,
civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E.
Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel
Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the
representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame
for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond.
Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South
Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The
South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise
profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles,
like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South
Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents,
visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes
illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a
2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History,
and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the
inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty
years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech,
the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of
the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens
have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke,
Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary
and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for
outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and
progress. To date, inductees have included political leaders and
reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy,
educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson,
authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy
Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner,
Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter,
civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E.
Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel
Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the
representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame
for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond.
Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South
Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The
South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise
profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles,
like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South
Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents,
visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes
illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a
2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History,
and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.
Sons of Privilege traces the wartime experiences of a unique
Confederate cavalry unit drawn together from South Carolina's most
prestigious families of planters, merchants, and politicos.
Examining the military exploits of the Charleston Light Dragoons,
W. Eric Emerson finds that the elite status of its membership
dictated the terms of the dragoons' service. For much of the war,
the dragoons were stationed close to home and faced little
immediate danger. As the South's resources waned, however, such
deference faded, and the dragoons were thrust into the bloody
combat of Virginia. Recounting the unit's 1864 baptism by fire at
the Battle of Haw's Shop, Emerson suggests that the dragoons'
unrealistic expectations about their military prowess led the men
to fight with more bravery than discretion. Thus the unit suffered
heavy losses, and by 1865 only a handful survived. Emerson tracks
the return of the survivors to ruined homes and businesses, the
struggle to rebuild lost fortunes, and the resurrection of
exclusive social organizations that would separate them from
Charleston's more prosperous newcomers. He chronicles efforts of
veterans to reestablish the unit and evaluates the influence of
writings by survivors on the postwar veneration of the dragoons.
The South Caroliniana Library, located on the historic Horseshoe of
the University of South Carolina campus in Columbia, is one of the
premier research archives and special collections repositories in
South Carolina and the American Southeast. The library's
holdings--manuscripts, published materials, university archives,
and visual materials--are essential to understanding the Palmetto
State and Southern culture as it has evolved over the past 300
years. When opened as the South Carolina College library in 1840 it
was the first freestanding academic library building in the United
States. Designed by Robert Mills, architect of the Washington
Monument, it is built in the Greek Revival style and features a
replica of the reading room that once housed Thomas Jefferson's
personal library in the second Library of Congress. When the
college built a larger main library (now known as the McKissick
Museum) in 1940, the Mills building became the home of
""Caroliniana""--published and unpublished materials relating to
the history, literature, and culture of South Carolina. Through a
dedicated mining of the resources this library has held, art
historian John M. Bryan crafted this comprehensive narrative
history of the building's design, construction, and renovations,
which he enhanced with personal entries from the diaries and
letters of the students, professors, librarians, and politicians
who crossed its threshold. A treasure trove of Caroliniana itself,
this colorful volume, featuring 95 photographs and illustrations,
celebrates a beautiful and historic structure, as well as the rich
and vibrant history of the Palmetto State and the dedicated
citizenry who have worked so hard to preserve it. A foreword is
provided by W. Eric Emerson, director, South Carolina Department of
History and Archives.
A Confederate Englishman presents for the first time the
fascinating Civil War correspondence of Henry Wemyss Feilden
(1838-1921), a young British officer who resigned his commission
and ran the blockade to become a Confederate staff officer in
Charleston, South Carolina. Editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen
Stokes have compiled Feilden's letters to chart the history of his
eventful career in the Confederacy from the time of his arrival in
South Carolina in 1863 to the end of the war.
Born the second son of the Baronet of Feniscowles, Feilden had
experienced much before his arrival in America. As a young officer,
he served during the Indian Mutiny and during the Second Opium War
in China. His fascination and empathy with the Confederacy,
however, propelled the young Englishman to risk his life to run the
Federal blockade of Charleston. After traveling to Richmond,
Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, to obtain a commission as
captain in the Confederate Army, he returned to Charleston to serve
on the staff of General P. G. T. Beauregard, whom he greatly
admired. During the war Feilden married a young South Carolinian,
Julia McCord. His witty, vivid, highly readable, and sometimes
romantic letters to her offer a compelling view into the operations
of the military department headquartered in Charleston, conditions
and events in and around the besieged city, and the heart of a man
in love.
A Confederate Englishman provides the insight and perspective of
Feilden's experiences with operations in the large and vital
Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida during the war's
final two years. After the war Feilden returned to England with his
wife to resume his career in the British army, and later he became
a noted Arctic explorer and naturalist. In addition to his Civil
War correspondence, A Confederate Englishman features a selection
of Feilden's letters from the early twentieth century that include
his reflections on his extraordinary life, his service to the
Confederacy, and his beloved wife of fifty-six years.
Emerson's introduction examines Feilden's background and character
and the reasons behind his choice to fight for the Confederacy. It
also delves into Feilden's astute assessment of Confederate
capabilities late in the war and his decision to benefit
financially from blockade running.
In Days of Destruction, editors W. Eric Emerson and Karen Stokes
chronicle the events of the siege of Charleston, South Carolina,
through a collection of letters written by Augustine Thomas Smythe,
a well-educated young man from a prominent Charleston family. The
vivid, eloquent letters he wrote to his family depict all that he
saw and experienced during the long, destructive assault on the
Holy City and describe in detail the damage done to Charleston's
houses, churches, and other buildings in the desolated shell
district, as well as the toll on human life. Smythe's role in the
Civil War was different from that of his many companions serving in
Virginia and undoubtedly different from anything he could have
imagined when the war began. Aftera baptism in blood at the Battle
of Secessionville, South Carolina, Smythe was assigned to the
Confederate Signal Corps. He served on the ironclad CSS Palmetto
State and then occupied a post high above Charleston in the steeple
of St. Michael's Episcopal Church. From behind a telescope in his
lofty perch, he observed the fierce attacks on Fort Sumter, the
effects of the unrelenting shelling of the city by enemy guns at
Morris Island, and the naval battles and operations in the harbor,
including the actions of the Confederate torpedo boats and the H.
L. Hunley submarine. The Confederate Signal Corps played a vital
role in the defense of Charleston and its environs, and Smythe's
letters, perhaps more than any other first-person account, detail
the daily life and service experiences of signalmen in and around
the city during the war. For more than eighteen months, Smythe's
neighborhood south of Broad Street, one of the city's oldest and
wealthiest communities, was abandoned by the great majority of its
residents. His letters provide the reader with an almost post
apocalyptic perspective of the oftentimes quiet, and frequently
lawless, street where he lived before and during the siege of
Charleston.
Brilliant and devout, William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) considered
himself a man of thought rather than of action. During the Civil
War, he discovered that he was both, distinguishing himself as an
able and courageous Confederate officer in the Holcombe Legion and
later as a dedicated chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. Published for
the first time, these previously unknown letters of DuBose
chronicle his Civil War actions with these two celebrated South
Carolina units and make an important contribution to the literature
and history of the war. They also advance our understanding of
DuBose's burgeoning religious ideals as a Civil War combatant who
would later become one of the foremost theologians of the Episcopal
Church and a distinguished professor at the University of the
South. A native of Winnsboro, South Carolina, DuBose was studying
to enter the Episcopal priesthood when the war began. After
struggling with the question of secular and spiritual obligations,
he decided to join in the defense of the Confederacy and began a
long and varied career as a soldier. After service in the
lowcountry during the first year of the war, he was thrust into the
thick of combat in Virginia, where he was wounded twice and taken
as a prisoner of war. After being exchanged and returned to duty in
1862, DuBose was wounded again at the battle of Kinston in North
Carolina, and a year later influential friends arranged for his
appointment as chaplain in Kershaw's Brigade. He continued to share
in the hazards of combat with the men to whom he ministered as they
fought in the battles of Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and
Cedar Creek in 1864. Adroitly edited by W. Eric Emerson and Karen
Stokes, the more than 150 letters collected here prove DuBose to be
a man of uncompromising duty to his faith, fellows, and the
Confederate cause. He references his interactions with prominent
figures of the day, including General Nathan ""Shanks"" Evans, John
L. Girardeau, John Johnson, Colonel Peter F. Stevens, General
Joseph B. Kershaw, Louisa Cheves McCord, and General John Bratton.
Also included here are DuBose's wartime courtship letters to his
fiancee and later wife, Anne Peronneau DuBose. Collectively these
extraordinary documents illustrate the workings of a mind and heart
devoted to his religion and dedicated to service in the Confederate
ranks.
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