Upcountry South Carolina goes to war
Subtitle: letters of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families, 1853-1865
By: edited by Tom Moore Craig ; introduction by Melissa Walker and Tom Moore Craig.
Contributors: Craig, Tom Moore.; Walker, Melissa, 1962-; South Caroliniana Library.; Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781570037986
Subjects: Anderson family -- Correspondence; Brockman family -- Correspondence; Moore family -- Correspondence; Rural families -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources; Country life -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Agriculture -- South Carolina -- Spartanburg County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Spartanburg County (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources
Genres: Correspondence.; Sources.
Description: Chronicles through correspondence the lives and concerns of prominent families in piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras. The 124 letters presented here were written by members of the Anderson, Brockman, and Moore families of Spartanburg County, neighboring planter-class families united by their shared Scots-Irish ancestry and their membership at Nazareth Presbyterian Church. --from publisher description
Notes: "Published in Cooperation with the South Caroliniana Library with the Assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.